University of Austin (UATx) Welcomes Freethinkers "to the Rebellion"

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American Family News: UATX welcomes freethinkers to 'the rebellion'

A new university in Texas is the kind of place Charlie Kirk thought every American campus should be.

In his recent feature piece, Fox's Steve Doocy says the University of Austin (UATX) was founded in 2023 on the ideas of truth and free expression. Its DEI page is the Declaration of Independence.

Tuition is free, and after two years, about 150 total freshmen and sophomores are enrolled.

They are not all Republican or conservative; one student says everyone has their own values and opinions, "but at the end of the day, we're all American, and that's what we value most."

UATX states that it will remain independent of any political, religious, or other external interest groups. "The only politics we have at this school is you bring your politics as long as you're able to argue them," another student told Doocy.

In his recent welcome back speech to students, President Carlos Carvalho declared, "America's next quarter millennium begins here today with you. Welcome to the rebellion."

He told Doocy he is mindful that we are celebrating 250 years of the American experiment. "I was going to bring back a notion of defending something that is very rebellious and unusual these days, which is the notion of inequality – the notion that we're not here trying to make everybody equal; we're trying to challenge them," Carvalho said.

As his institution makes much about "pursuing the truth," Doocy wondered whether other universities do that.

The website notes that nearly every university says it stands for freedom of inquiry, but UATX is different because "we mean it."

According to Carvalho, the denial of the existence of universal truth has proven detrimental, and he believes that is "the number one reason for the decay of the system that we're trying to now rekindle."

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has granted a Certificate of Authority to UATX to award Bachelor of Arts degrees in liberal studies. The university is a candidate for accreditation, but the school is young and has not yet graduated a class of undergraduate students, which is normally a prerequisite for completing the first accreditation cycle.