Posted on 05/05/2023 12:52:48 AM PDT by CFW
A new college is coming to the University of Texas.
The School of Civic Leadership received a unanimous vote from the Board of Regents and will build upon the current Civitas Institute. The institute touts itself as being a foundation for a “free and enduring society, including constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”
“Our goal then as it is today is to offer an education that prepares students for careers in public service, national security, the nonprofit sector, and the private sector. We have been impressed by the progress made and hope to build on those efforts,” said a board member at Thursday’s meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
Done correctly, a school such as this can be a source of future conservative leaders for the GOP.
I hope the concept goes viral...
Are you kidding? UT is as liberal as the rest of Austin.
In the University of Texas system? The one headquartered in Austin? No, no way this “school” is honestly looking at limited government and personal freedoms in the face of 120 years of widespread and deliberate UT systematic bias.
No. Maybe - just “maybe” in a Texas A&M University System school - but even there the unbiased and freedom needed has become very, very suspect in the past 35 years. More free, more capitalistic and historically correct 45 years ago. But today?
I expect the school to be be authoritarian leftists who give lip service to the idea of freedom.
It sounds like what Libertarians say when they mean big government cracks down on local governments. Would fit right in with the other leftist schools in Austin.
It’s the best phrase to capture what they are.
How in the world did these dudes sneak in?
Bump
If “individual liberty” means moral relativism and worship of self, this a very bad move.
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