University of Austin (UATX)

Don't miss our Open House on Friday, November 8, from 5pm-7pm. Come see our Scarbrough campus in Austin and witness the fearless pursuit of truth in action. Meet our faculty and students, learn about our undergraduate degree program, ask our Admissions team questions, and start your application for Fall 2025. Every student admitted to and enrolled in the Class of 2029 will receive a four-year, full tuition scholarship. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gVykgxbT

Last weekend, more than 150 family members from throughout the country and the world joined university supporters and program alumni in Austin for a weekend of celebration and connection. “We’re calling this the Families and Founders Weekend, but in my mind, this is our homecoming weekend,” President Pano Kanelos said at a faculty meet-and-greet reception at our Scarbrough campus Friday night. “What we have here at this institution is a home in the making. Our students, faculty, and staff have turned this campus and these classrooms, where they spend their daily lives, into a home where they live with the highest purpose in mind: the fearless pursuit of truth. “And for those of you who are family, this is your homecoming. You are coming to the home that your daughters and your sons are in the process of creating.”

https://lnkd.in/eb8KNsam Please listen to my conversation with the wonderful Kirsten Hall Herlin, an expert on Jane Austen and 18th-century literature. We had a great conversation about the books that help us make meaning out of our lives.

I am very excited to launch my new podcast next week: The GenBio Podcast, where I will be exploring the frontier of what is possible in biology. Who better than Dr. Eliah Overbey of the University of Austin (UATX) to rocket launch 🚀us into discussions about the future? Join us as we discuss everything from the future potential of humanity, the challenges of her biological research, Superman, and space cadets in this upcoming podcast. *Note - there are also space helmets. Dr. Overbey is beginning a new Astrogenomics 🧬👩🚀 program at UATX, meaning she will be studying the effect of space on the human genome and biology. She currently has the largest collection of astronaut genomes, and if that wasn’t already cool enough, her vision is essentially to build “Starfleet Academy” in real life. If you want to meet her, be sure to attend Astronaut Summit at UATX on November 16th. I’ll be there as a proud UATX Talent Network member. So much cool and amazing innovation happening here in Austin! #space #austin #AI #GenBio

Erin Valdez and the University of Austin (UATX) are doing exciting work that will ultimately support #classicaleducation in a profound way. K-12 classical education looks to have significant supply challenges as the movement grows. It's a joy to be laboring in the same vineyard with people who want to meet that challenge head-on.

On October 9, the University of Austin (UATX) hosted the inaugural event for the Center for Education and Public Service incubator in partnership with Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Looking Back to Look Forward: Nurturing the Renaissance of Classical Education in Texas." Over 60 local school leaders, education entrepreneurs, and policymakers attended to learn about how parents are creating alternatives to the factory model of education. I want to thank our panelists and speakers who made the event such a success: Eric Cook, Stephen Gordon, Andrew Brummett, Bob Donaldson, Jon Kirwan, MEd, DPhil (Oxon), Paul Weinhold, PhD, Justin Dyer, Chairman Brad Buckley, and Speaker Paul Renner. You can learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/gD-ynuZw We look forward to hosting future events to highlight additional alternative models, so stay tuned!

Applications are now open for a symposium on Leo Strauss taking place January 4-10, 2025 at the University of Austin (UATX) – "On Natural Right and History and Classical Political Philosophy." Participants should be currently enrolled undergraduates or recent graduates no more than two years graduated. The application deadline is November 24, 2024. Learn more and apply at the link below!

“The Odyssey is a deep dive into questions of what it is to be a human being, particularly the eternal temptations to be less than human and more than human, to be more like a beast or a god,” political philosopher Patrick Deneen told UATX. Watch the full lecture here: https://lnkd.in/e-tFiU3X

It was a pleasure welcoming Patrick Deneen to campus on Wednesday to speak about Homer's Odyssey—a UATX foundational text—and the permanent questions of Western political philosophy. Read more about our Intellectual Foundations curriculum: https://lnkd.in/g8cyCv4X

My University of Austin (UATX) colleagues and I will be back in New York City next weekend, partnering with our friends at Maxwell Social for another inside look at the state of American Higher Education. Join Jake Howland for a conversation on October 7 in retrospective. If you would like to attend this Salon cocktail hour and discussion on Sunday, October 13, please let me know!