Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.
I sincerely hope you achieve the success you need to move forward. America is a great country and your students should be taught that, along with our not so great moments. We are still the beacon of hope for the world.
Always be ready to debate popular dogma with your own ideas - don’t be intimidated by those who hold the conceit that their beliefs are morally and intellectually superior to yours.
Here is to your efforts, and my sincere wishes for success in fostering worthy citizens. From strength to strength. Truly a fine alternative to the vacuous and downright troubling state of previously well regarded institutions.
Certainly concur that there is a need to return to the Classics and not disregard the lessons from the past. As a former SJC student, I can see how Pano will have much to bring to this new university. Ancient wisdom is more relevant than ever!
I hope UATX will grow into a proper university. As it is, it is not one. Proper universities offer degrees in traditional subjects, including, in particular, mathematics (which either houses or shares with another department all but two of the trivium and quadrivium -- yes, the medieval versions of music and astronomy were heavily mathematical in content, and grudgingly we share logic with departments of philosophy), not glitzy things like "Data Science and Computing." As it is UATX is a worthwhile educational institution that seeks to correct the destruction wrought on American academe by the "long march of the Left through the institutions," but it does not yet live up to the first word in its name.
I wish them great success.
And I would like to point out some errors that I have detected while browsing through the web site.
Errors in “Select Core Texts”:
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta is a work by Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier on February 24, 1306. It is not a work of Thucydides.
-Nicomachean Ethics, Physics y Politics are works of Aristotle. It is not a work of Aeschylus.
Review the entire website.
Forgive my possible mistakes. I am writing using a translator.
Thank you
Enrique Herrera. España
I wish your university the greatest of success.
I only wish we had something similar in woke, broke Australia.
We have so many bright, innovative, thought-diversity champions of the minds down here.....with no where to go.
Your moral courage - Pano, Bari, Joe, Niall, and team - is invaluable to the world.
https://faith1101.substack.com/publish/post/148514185
"False revolutions propose only the tearing down of the established order; they are an exercise in nihilism."
Amen to that. Well said. The opening of UATX is a tremendous achievement and very good news. Well done!
I sincerely hope you achieve the success you need to move forward. America is a great country and your students should be taught that, along with our not so great moments. We are still the beacon of hope for the world.
Always be ready to debate popular dogma with your own ideas - don’t be intimidated by those who hold the conceit that their beliefs are morally and intellectually superior to yours.
How encouraging to read this today--wishing you and all involved success!
Here is to your efforts, and my sincere wishes for success in fostering worthy citizens. From strength to strength. Truly a fine alternative to the vacuous and downright troubling state of previously well regarded institutions.
Certainly concur that there is a need to return to the Classics and not disregard the lessons from the past. As a former SJC student, I can see how Pano will have much to bring to this new university. Ancient wisdom is more relevant than ever!
Wonderful! If I had a child of eighteen today, I would insist he or she attend the University of Austin -- on pain of disinheritance!
Yes, I wish there was a quiet desk in America where students could read Popper, Hayek, and Arendt.
I hope UATX will grow into a proper university. As it is, it is not one. Proper universities offer degrees in traditional subjects, including, in particular, mathematics (which either houses or shares with another department all but two of the trivium and quadrivium -- yes, the medieval versions of music and astronomy were heavily mathematical in content, and grudgingly we share logic with departments of philosophy), not glitzy things like "Data Science and Computing." As it is UATX is a worthwhile educational institution that seeks to correct the destruction wrought on American academe by the "long march of the Left through the institutions," but it does not yet live up to the first word in its name.
This is good.
Congrats! I guess, when is the first annual anti-Semitic riot?
So exciting! I’m sure The Free Press will invite you to write articles about your experiences. Bravo to you! V.
Much of what is wrong with higher education could be fixed by doing one thing, ending tenure.