New intellectual freedom-inspired Texas college flooded with applicants, donor funds

The relatively new University of Austin, founded on the principles of intellectual freedom, continues to build and grow as it works to firmly launch its vision for the longterm.

Campus leader Jacob Howland, in an essay in the Winter 2023 edition of City Journal, wrote that he believes the university will succeed because of its demonstrated record of success in its acclaimed Forbidden Courses program; its more than 5,000 inquiries from potential faculty; and its 1,500 individual donors, “more than 60 of whom made gifts of six, seven, or eight figures.'”

Howland, director of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin in Texas, said the school stands apart as other colleges increasingly providing an inferior product at an exorbitant cost.