A New University - Fighting the Censorship Culture

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Our rigorous curriculum will be the first designed in partnership not only with great teachers but also society’s great doers—founders of daring ventures, dissidents who have stood up to authoritarianism, pioneers in tech, and the leading lights in engineering and the natural sciences. Our students will be exposed to the deepest wisdom of civilization and learn to encounter works not as dead traditions but as fierce contests of timeless significance that help human beings distinguish between what is true and false, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Students will come to see such open inquiry as a lifetime activity that demands of them a brave, sometimes discomfiting, search for enduring truths.
 
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I read the link and can't decide which direction they're trying to go in.
 
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hog88 said:
I read the link and can't decide which direction they're trying to go in.
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the founding principle is freedom of thought and expression in the pursuit of knowledge.

sounds like their first planned degree program is in Entrepreneurship (MA) and it looks like a very good program design.

otherwise it sounds like it will be a variation of Liberal Arts at the UG level.
 
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I wish them well. I hope they are successful.

I hope they find a quality accreditation association to give their degrees legal weight.
 
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Add them to UT's football schedule but bear in mind that if you beat them they may proclaim the score false and offer an alternative one.
 
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volinbham said:
Students will come to see such open inquiry as a lifetime activity that demands of them a brave, sometimes discomfiting, search for enduring truths.
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Until it makes the wrong people upset and uncomfortable and they end up at the end of a [insert political ideology] witch hunt and media evisceration.
 
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One of my favorite books is called "Homeland Excursions." It was written by Bruno Nettl, the father of American Ethnomusicology. He basically does an in depth ethnography on the institution that gave him tenure and rips the School of Music a new ******* for being a dusty altar to dead guys and old ideas. He laments the focus on accepting only one truth - Western European Musical style - and posits that anything else is treated as some kind of a novelty.

I may email him and see what he thinks about this new endeavor. I think it has promise.
 
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AshG said:
Until it makes the wrong people upset and uncomfortable and they end up at the end of a [insert political ideology] witch hunt and media evisceration.
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always that chance but it appears the founding members are all linked in one way or another to the Heterodox Academy and have a history of not doing this or bowing to this.
 
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AshG said:
I wish them well. I hope they are successful.

I hope they find a quality accreditation association to give their degrees legal weight.
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I'm betting that at least early on their degrees (or more accurately) their graduates are going to be fine. The structure, student selection process and human resources connected to their first planned degree will render the issue moot.
 
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Accredidation..lmao..The same schools that charge one hundreds of thousands of dollars and the graduates cannot get a decent paying job to pay back those loans...lmao
 
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Orangeburst said:
Accredidation..lmao..The same schools that charge one hundreds of thousands of dollars and the graduates cannot get a decent paying job to pay back those loans...lmao
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USC Pushed a $115,000 Online Degree. Graduates Got Low Salaries, Huge Debts.

Recent USC social-work graduates who took out federal loans borrowed a median $112,000. Half of them were earning $52,000 or less annu-ally two years later, a Wall Street Journal analysis of newly released U.S. Education Depart-ment data found. Compared with other master’s-degree programs at top-tier U.S. universities, the USC social-work degree had one of the worst combinations of debt and earnings.
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University Of Unwoke - The American Conservative

The names involved give this project a lot more gravitas than I had expected when I first saw the headline. I certainly wish them well.

On a frivolous note, it's interesting to see Gordon Gee's name come up in a context very different from those in which he has usually been mentioned in this forum.
 
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DuckInAPen said:
University Of Unwoke - The American Conservative

The names involved give this project a lot more gravitas than I had expected when I first saw the headline. I certainly wish them well.

On a frivolous note, it's interesting to see Gordon Gee's name come up in a context very different from those in which he has usually been mentioned in this forum.
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Yep - it's by no means a "conservative" university. If they succeed however they will be a university where conservative view (or Marxist, or whatever) will be welcomed as part of open inquiry so long as one ideology doesn't seek to convert or quash.

I do wonder what critical mass is in any ideology. The challenge with complete viewpoint diversity is that universities (or departments) often thrive when there are enough people of a particular viewpoint or specialty to work together to produce content. If everyone is an ideology of one that critical mass will be missing.
 
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