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University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
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#12It’s not obvious to me that this reflects anything special about this particular model for a university. Instead, I think it reflects the utter horrow-show that is the academic job market and, to some extent, the terrible matching in the rest of the job market as well.
Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.
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#13I 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?
The US has around 5000 universities. Not all of them were started by anchor billionaires.
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#14Ah the good old fashioned ways to increase the administrative bureaucratic arms of university. And then we wonder how university education cost has ballooned over 150% inflation in 10years.
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#15It’s frustrating how much culture wars content is posted and upvoted on Hacker News these days. I feel like we can’t go a single day without these dog-whistle style articles.
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#16The article claims the university has a "diverse board of founding trustees and advisors", but amusingly the actual page has photos in black-and-white which is a frequent trick to obscure the lack of (racial) diversity
Edit: It also says that "UATX will ... eschew federal and state funding to maintain independence from government-imposed programs and excessive regulation" which sounds like it might be related to dodging Title IX?
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#17It’s frustrating how much culture wars content is posted and upvoted on Hacker News these days. I feel like we can’t go a single day without these dog-whistle style articles.
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#19> DOESN'T IT TAKE SOME UNIVERSITIES A DECADE TO RECEIVE ACCREDITATION?
> Our conversations with our accredited partners lead us to believe that we'll have a much shorter time frame than that. But we're not waiting for accreditation to get started on our programming. Until it is accredited, UATX will offer ...
If you are graduating high school soon, I'd recommend not betting on this University until/unless they're accredited.
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#20I imagine the prospect of not having to author Maoist style diversity statements and other indignities will be quite a draw. Universities have become inhospitable and intolerant places for even politically moderate folks.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...