After a visit from Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy commented: “With an emphasis on the truth and free expression, this place seems like exactly the kind of learning place that Charlie Kirk was trying to turn every American campus into.” Watch.
Prior to the broadcast, UATX student Ben Solin had organized and spoken at a memorial to Charlie Kirk.
UATX student Andrew Chakos spoke at the memorial, emphasizing the need to embrace character over comfort, service over self, building over destruction, and faith over fear. He challenged fellow students “Will we ignore the collapse of our generation’s morals, or will we rise and stand where Charlie stood? Because if not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
Watch Andrew discuss what Kirk stood for:
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News:
Steve Doocy, Fox & Friends: “This place seems like exactly the kind of learning place that Charlie Kirk was trying to turn every American campus into.”
Ben Shapiro, The Ben Shapiro Show: “If you are gonna go to college… I would recommend very strongly looking at the ideological leaning of the college, whether the education is worth the actual amount of money that you are paying, and whether you ought to go to a startup institution like University of Austin…”
Brian Allen, National Review: “Today, I’m writing about a miracle. That’s the University of Austin.”
Lily Kepner, The Austin American-Statesman: “At a time when many question the objectivity, quality and price of higher education, UATX is leaning into its defiance of the norm. From a rigorous orientation to a convocation titled ‘In Defense of Inequality,’ UATX is insisting on rigor, excellence, free expression and civil discourse.’
Helen Raleigh, The Federalist: “On a more hopeful note, one university stands out for doing the right thing in the aftermath of Kirk’s murder: the University of Austin (UATX).”
The Editors, The Free Press: “We live in an age where our most elite educational institutions have seemingly abandoned their core mission—the fearless pursuit of truth—and instead choose to lower academic standards in the name of equality… Carvalho and UATX have chosen to take a different path. Theirs is a meritocratic message our country sorely needs to hear.”
Monthly Spotlight: Faculty Publications
Carson Bay, et al., Edited Book (Schwabe Online): The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception and Reinvention in Western Europe (open access!)
Carson Bay, Article (Co-Produced Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam): “On the Destruction of Jerusalem: One Narrative Bedrock of the Historiographical Construction of the Jews”
Eliah Overbey, Podcast: “Join, or Die on Earth” (in support of her ongoing astronaut campaign)
Scott M. Reznick, Article (Inside Higher Ed): “Do Regional Publics Know Their Product?”
High Schoolers:
Most “pre-college” weekends teach you how to get in. This one shows you what it feels like once you’re here.
This October, we’re bringing our famous High School Honors Program to New York, Austin, and LA.
College-level seminars. Free. Spots are limited:
