University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
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#2Title completely misses the actual key part of it:
> Newly-Announced Free Speech-Focused University of Austin Draws Over 3,000 Employment Inquiries in Four Days
Re: University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
#3I'm really curious to see if this experiment works out. Looking at their website, it seems that they don't have any land whatsoever, so does that mean this is going to be 100% virtual for now? They also don't offer degrees, so is this basically a glorified Khan Academy for the time being?
Also, it remains to be seen if they can resist the same forces that they say have overrun other universities in the country.
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#4>“I had one Texas mom email me who said she was crying at the possible opportunity for her children, and a very successful businessman who said, ‘my children may now have a place to go to school.”
Not a single university in the world is acceptable for their families? Are they looking for an education or a club to join?
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#5I'm really curious to see if this experiment works out. Looking at their website, it seems that they don't have any land whatsoever, so does that mean this is going to be 100% virtual for now? They also don't offer degrees, so is this basically a glorified Khan Academy for the time being? Also, it remains to be seen if they can resist the same forces that they say have overrun other universities in the country.
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Re: University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
#6good luck to them.
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#7I don’t think these guys have enough money to make it as a university. Where’s their anchor billionaire? Are they doing this Lean Startup style?
Re: University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
#8I'm really curious to see if this experiment works out. Looking at their website, it seems that they don't have any land whatsoever, so does that mean this is going to be 100% virtual for now? They also don't offer degrees, so is this basically a glorified Khan Academy for the time being? Also, it remains to be seen if they can resist the same forces that they say have overrun other universities in the country.
> they don't have any land whatsoever
Vast majority of organisations don't own any land - they lease office space.
Re: University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
#9I'm really curious to see if this experiment works out. Looking at their website, it seems that they don't have any land whatsoever, so does that mean this is going to be 100% virtual for now? They also don't offer degrees, so is this basically a glorified Khan Academy for the time being? Also, it remains to be seen if they can resist the same forces that they say have overrun other universities in the country.
It's planning to be 100% in-person. They are looking into acquiring land. My own opinion is they should buy a large (university-scale) plot of land far enough from Austin that land is cheap.
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#10At universities, ideas which were once countercultural and revolutionary have become the mainstream orthodoxy. I'm not sure anyone has quite confronted that reality yet. It seems almost like an army that won much more easily than they expected, and now doesn't quite know what to do off the battlefield.
I hope this university is able to balance these ideas into more of a discussion and less of a battle.