Announced here. It seems to be modelled on the Great Books curriculum of the St. Johns Colleges, except it will also have an MA in entrepreneurship before it has an undergraduate program! I suspect the explanation has to do with the initial funding source. The initial funding comes from an entity called "Cicero Research" which according to its tax form appears to be the creation of Joe Lonsdale, a tech entrepreneur and former associate of Peter Thiel, who relocated from Silicon Valley to Austin not long ago. We'll see how this develops. Hopefully it will evolve into a genuinely "liberal" liberal arts college.
ADDENDUM: I wonder whether "The University of Texas at Austin" will take legal action about the name, to avoid "brand" confusion. It's happened before with universities (in that case, the University of Houston won).
ANOTHER: I see the initial "faculty" involved with the University includes Peter Boghossian, which is embarrassing, given that many other genuinely accomplished scholars are involved (including Dorian Abbot and Geoffrey Stone from Chicago, Kathleen Stock formerly of Sussex, Glenn Loury from Brown, and others). Boghossian has no record of scholarly accomplishment, although he does have a substantial record of self-promotion through gimmicks.
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