UATX launches, touting ideological openness, debate and— for now—free tuition

These are not soaring times for higher education. Tuition costs rise unchecked. Contempt for today’s campus culture—the trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions—helped swing the election, and this past week, President-elect Donald Trump nominated former WWE executive Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education, an agency that each year distributes billions to U.S. colleges… some that Trump has vowed to tax and sue for their quote wokeness. … But if America does one thing well, it’s innovation. Conceived largely by frustrated professors at schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Brown, the University of Austin, started classes this fall… a college start-up… touting open debate—a shout-nothing- but-say-anything philosophy—and (for now) free tuition…. Will this be just another politicized campus swinging right? Or a true disrupter, resetting the marketplace of ideas?

140-years-old, the University of Texas at Austin, ranks among the country’s largest schools. Football games draw more than 100,000 fans… but blocks away, in between a Ruth’s Chris and a Velvet Taco, on a floor of what was once a downtown department store: one of America’s smallest universities. UATX — the University of Austin.

R&I ~ MJM

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