Will you say what you want, whenever you want – regardless of the extent of an attack – a difference in the place where the college is attending?
How do these discussions look like in the semester?
Since September, 92 students have been suffering from freedom of expression as the opening category of scholars at the newly populated University of Austin.
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Will you say what you want, and whenever you want, there is a difference in the place where the college is attending? In Texas, the University of Austin’s experiences in its first year with mixing radical freedom of expression with higher education.
It was founded by cadres of conservatives, and with donations from wealthy business leaders, including billionaire Bill Akman, who was suffering from education that was full of policies “wake up”, Uatx took off with a promise to anyone who would join their case that they were the anti -liberal school. Here, the founders say that the fear of political revenge or the general abolition does not exist.
“This is the classic reason that was established by universities,” says Mike Sherez, Chief of Staff and Vice President of Strategy and Operations. He says that there is a vision in society and throughout a lot of higher education, as there are “families of ideas” that are not allowed to talk about. Some of these topics include things such as identity, climate and politics.
“You are not allowed to raise ideas that do not correspond to a type of predetermined model. Dr. Shiraz, who is also a professor of economics and public policy, says:“ We have been invented as an institution, not to bomb this, but we create a recent example of how to learn, education, conversation, discourse, discourse and civil discourse can happen in a university environment. ”
at least 28 colleges and universities grant grades It was closed in 2024, with more expected by the end of this academic year. So Uatx is not just a new college in the direction of closing; It is a new school with a dubious payment of $ 200 million. News radio operations want interviews, as well as the printed media. Students apply for attendance and faculty members who want to teach there for a promise of freedom of expression.
Zach Greenberg, a lawyer for the Legal Defense and Student Faculty of the Foundation of Rights and Individual Expression (Fire), says the group has been encouraged by UATX.
“We are pleased to see that the University of Austin’s policies provide strong protection for the rights of freedom of expression students and faculty members. These policies, as well as UATX leadership data that glorify the importance of freedom of expression, shows a strong commitment to protecting expressive freedom.”
Refers to the 2024 fire reconnaissance This classified how private universities in terms of freedom of expression, with Harvard University at the bottom.
“It is refreshing to see the establishment of a new university dedicated to this important value. Mr. Greenberg says:
A new school finds its foot
UATX was conceived in 2021. The headlines of the newspapers and suspicions were directed when the author and editor of free Bari Weiss, founder and member of its Board of Trustees, announced first on the university and its mission. The House of Advisors includes prominent names in the academic circles, including former Harvard University President Larry Samars and President of West Virginia University E. Gordon Gee. The opening semester was 26 % of students who applied to school. So far, there are 18 faculty, including 16 full -time faculty.
The school came with criticisms-including the so-called tournament. Robert Zimmer, at the time, consultant at the University of Chicago, to resign In November 2021, as a member of a consulting council, saying that UATX “made a number of phrases about higher education in general, which is very important, which has diverged greatly from my own opinions.” The famous Harvard scientist Stephen Benker resigned from this council within weeks of the establishment of the school. Evolutionary biologist Heather Hying, a founderand to resign In 2022, he said that the Foundation was not represented by its “scientific and educational values”.
“What I would like to tell him is that if your son comes here … they will learn how to think, they will learn how to communicate,” says Dr. Shiraers. Parents tell that by the time UATX ends to train their children, they will know how to do things that will serve them throughout their lives.
He says: “This is really what we sell to these parents: It is an opportunity for your children to come here and turn in a way that allows them to follow things and do so well.”
Dr. Shiraz says he cannot talk about the diversity of the school, because he does not keep statistics for race or sex. An observer correspondent was also allowed to visit the campus at the Scarbrough Building on Sixth Street and Christss Avenue in the center of Austin. A marine blue poster in a window from floor to the ceiling spoils potential students to “dare to think” and “join us in seeking fear for the truth.” The school’s promise to another window affirmed around the corner that “UATX will return the studied innovators, morals, builders, leaders and citizens through a fair open investigation and continuous civil discourse.”
Jack Ericsson, a student in UATX. A student from Boston, who is interested in entrepreneurship.
“I was looking at a lot of large schools, and in fact, when I found the University of Austin, it seemed to be more dependent on the success of the school, and that they were taking a step in the right direction of higher education,” says Mr. Ericsson.
He had already submitted an application to multiple schools before finding the start starting in January 2024. He says his story is different from some of his current colleagues. A number told him that they did not make plans to join the university until they obtained a founding grant. As members in the first class, this gave them a full trip – equivalent to $ 32,000 of tuition fees.
“My problem with small private schools is that they will send me a bill of $ 85,000, and I didn’t think I would get a good investment return in this education,” says Mr. Ericsson. Then he applied to large public schools in the south, with its highest probability is Georgetia University. UGA gave him a partial grant, but he also wanted to contribute to $ 30,000 annually. He chose UATX with the blessing of his parents.
“I looked at her and said,” I was always homogeneous of risk. “… and Austin University has just offered a really unique experience, especially being in the first grade.”
This unique experience also looks like this: He and his other colleagues get a shuttle transportation service to and from their apartments, which they share with the University of Texas at Austin students. He participated in the establishment of the Austin Exchange group, where they have student mixers with UT Austin students and invited the speakers guests, thinkers and businessmen to attend and speak. It goes on golf picnics as part of the golf club. He says he is about to start high internal training in two hours learn for up to 30 hours a week. It will work on a project to develop an application for health and moisture. He says that his friends from Boston are new students in large schools who do not have internal training yet.
“Root mode”
The opening students received scholarships to attend UATX. Since the school is not approved, it does not provide stability of possession. Instead, professors have five -year contracts.
If a faculty feels as if their academic freedoms are reduced, they can transfer the dispute to the Supreme Court of the School, says Dr. Shiraz, which includes legal scholars from all over the country.
“We didn’t want to create an environment where [tenure] “The model was, as it was literal, I must cross the threshold, and after that I no longer had to work,” says Dr. Shiraz, who indicates that he abandoned the period at the University of Biberdin to come to Uatx.
“The first purpose of possession is to say that the university cannot shoot you if they say things that irritate them. It is the argument of freedom of expression. Dr. Shirts says:” We realize that this is something that is concerned legally. “
Since UATX is not dependent on the national level, faculty members cannot compete for granting federal research. Instead, they depend on a bank of wealthy schools and private institutions.
“When you take a teaching staff, you are lowering its roots, so I am investing to be here for several decades,” says Elie Overbi, an assistant professor of biology. Dr. Overbey came to UATX from post PhD research at the Faculty of Medicine at Cornell University. Now you like to get a new zero courses design.
“There are many professors who look at these branded schools and really want the brand name.
There is no dependence on it. She says that schools usually win accreditation after the first dust graduates, which will be in 2028. There is no period not a source of concern for them, because they are working on building a legacy in the school and found support for their ideas. Dr. Overbey says it is on a mission to make the Spaceflight distance easier for students, businessmen and researchers, and I found support in UATX.
She arrived at her future employer after hearing about the school’s launch on podcasts, and got the mailing list. She recently attended at the Manhattan Institute, where UATX Pano Canilus President spoke about how universities need to fix them, and presented themselves to him.
All this happened when she was thinking about going in a different educational direction.
“I was looking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” says Dr. Overbi.
“I started my request to do so, but it was close to October 7, and I was watching the head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Congress,” says Dr. Overbi. She had to write a statement on diversity, fairness and integration as part of her request, but she says she stopped after watching Sally Kornbluth.
She says: “Watching the president of that university and the culture of Dei for universities in general sends the Jews … I could not,” she says. “I felt like a personal violation to do this.”
The rest is the date. It is nearly two periods, however, consider, a lot to go.
