(cont'd from yesterday's post)
University of Austin will welcome its first class of students next fall. It is not the University of Texas at Austin, but a new university altogether, designed to allow students and faculty to think and speak freely while pursuing truth. You know, like the university system which thrived for centuries doing that until today's disastrous corruption.
Six hundred professors applied for the initial fifteen faculty positions, six hundred who want to escape the oppressive culture of other universities to join this new one. Maybe they are afraid (of course they are) to speak their opposition to the mono-culture on their current campuses.
In the words of one of the founders, "Independent thinkers are repelled by intolerant and rigid intellectual environments. When universities are obsessed with hunting heretics, they become incapable of real creative achievement and fall behind."
The founders and faculty (including Peter Boghossian) are optimistic that this can succeed.
from "Why I'm Co-founding a New University Dedicated to Freedo of Thought and Study"
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