UT Austin is a completely established school. I'm talking about the deceptively named University of Austin which is the Musk, Rogan, Fridman affiliated school opening maybe soon. I don't know if those 3 are actually affiliated with it, but their names come up with it.
The University of Austin, if it comes to be, isn't promising marketability, though, just education for those interested in the classic liberal arts canon.
I'm interested, and I already have a career. If I pay for a course to join like minded people and have interesting discussions, where's the grift?
The regular state university I attended that left me with a pile of debt and did nothing to get me a career was the grift.. but I figured that out when I was young and dropped out, because it WAS promising a marketable skill, which I taught myself, and wasn't giving me the interesting discussion or insightful reading or anything else I wanted from a general education...
... Which is why I'm interested in the University of Austin...
I think this may be an unfamiliar pattern for towns that haven’t yet crowded their name into university titles but it’s a well established pattern when enough institutions land on the ground.
Eg
University of San Francisco (USF)
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Same exact pattern in San Diego too. Probably going to see this pattern permutations across several towns in the future. I think Seattle and towns in Florida May have a similar pattern too. Kind of makes a schools named after individuals a bit more distinctive come to think about it.
