Facing the biggest disruption to education in recent history, we have the unique opportunity now to reform education to create stronger societies for a better world. WISE 2021 gives a voice to the generation that has been the most impacted by the pandemic and global crisis and seeks to understand what today’s young people want from education and for the future. This generation protests the inaction of governments regarding climate change, they use social media to voice their hopes for social justice and equality, and they are globally unsatisfied with their education. What is the education we need to build a better future?
For me -cogniscent of how dad at the economist and as neumann biographer have helped brainstorm coming of von neumanns 100 times more knowledge networking per decade since 1955 - a nation that puts its college students in the most debt is neither going to grow in 2020s nor will be trusted to lead humanity away from climste extinction
so radical change to universities looks to me the last best chance of usa turning the corner from the depths of fear it seems to have been politicised
UATX is developing the first curricular model that synthesizes a rigorous liberal education with an education that prepares the next generation of leaders to renew the promise of American society. Our curriculum is being designed in partnership not only with the world’s great thinkers but also with its great doers—visionaries who have founded bold ventures, artists and writers of the highest order, pioneers in tech, and the leading lights in engineering and the natural sciences.
TIMELINE
2021
Establish the university and launch its summer program.
2022
Launch the graduate program in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
2023
Launch graduate programs in Politics and Applied History and in Education and Public Service
2024
Establish the undergraduate college
BEGINNING SUMMER 2022
THE FORBIDDEN COURSES
Our Forbidden Courses summer program invites top students from other universities to join us for a spirited discussion about the most provocative questions that often lead to censorship or self-censorship in many universities. Students will become proficient and comfortable with productive disagreement. Instructors will range from top professors to accomplished business leaders, journalists, and artists.
FALL 2022
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP MA PROGRAM
The primary purpose of most conventional business programs is to credential large cohorts of passive learners with a lowest-common-denominator curriculum comprised of the most abstract principles of accounting, finance, management, and organizational leadership.
In this 12-month program, UATX will recruit elite students from top schools, teach them the classical principles of leadership and market foundations, and then embed them into a network of successful technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and public-policy reformers. Students will then actively apply their learning to the most urgent and seemingly intractable problems facing our society, both in the private and public sectors.
ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMS
POLITICS & APPLIED HISTORY (MA)
LAUNCH: FALL 2023
EDUCATION & PUBLIC SERVICE (MA)
LAUNCH: FALL 2023
MA PROGRAMS IN TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS
LAUNCH: TBD
FALL 2024
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE
Our four-year undergraduate program will take place at a residential liberal arts college in Austin, Texas.
The first two years of study will consist of an intensive liberal arts curriculum, including the study of philosophy, literature, history, politics, economics, mathematics, the sciences, and the fine arts. The College will feature an immersive, in-depth and personalized learning experience with interdisciplinary breadth.
THE UNDERGRADUATE (BA) PROGRAM
YEAR 1
Students enter a comprehensive and rigorous liberal arts education in The College—a program designed to advance self-mastery.
YEAR 3
Students join one of four Academic Centers as junior fellows—launching them on a path to mastery in their fields.
THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE
CENTERS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
After two years of a comprehensive and rigorous liberal arts education in The College, undergraduates will join one of four Academic Centers as junior fellows, pursuing disciplinary coursework, conducting hands-on research, and gaining internship experience. The Academic Centers will be structured as a combination of research institutes, think tanks, and innovation incubators, dedicated to addressing the most pressing questions posed by society.
Junior fellows will engage with leading scholars, graduate students pursuing MA degrees, as well as prominent leaders in business, politics, technology, and education. The Centers will enable junior fellows to graduate not only with intellectual achievement, but also with real-world experience and spirited purpose.
