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Billionaire Jeff Yass gives $100 million to University of Austin for free tuition

Yass, a school voucher supporter and an influential figure in Texas politics, said the only condition for the gift was for the school not to receive government funding.

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Fox News host hypes ‘free speech’ college as place where ‘protests are essentially not allowed’

Fox News host hypes ‘free speech’ college as place where ‘protests are essentially not allowed’

After airing a clip of University of Austin professor Michael Shellenberger describing the school as a ‘place of free thought,’ Brian Kilmeade praised the college for supposedly outlawing student protests.

The Independent UK

Why Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Left California for Texas

The entrepreneur, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and the University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish.

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Pano Kanelos: 'Ideology Is the Death of Ideas'

The president of the new University of Austin wants to reverse the decline of higher education in America.

Bari Weiss, Joe Lonsdale, and Niall Ferguson have dreams of building a free speech school in Texas. Emails from a regulator reveal they aren’t authorized to call it a ‘college’

Aggressive timelines and initial missteps could throw a wrench in plans for the University of Austin.

A group of venture capitalists is rallying around Joe Lonsdale’s new university in Austin

The Palantir cofounder and VC cofounded the University of Austin with journalist Bari Weiss.

Tech bigwigs tired of woke academia are funding the 'University of Austin' where Marc Andreessen will lecture at a ‘Forbidden Courses’ program this summer

The University of Austin is being funded by tech bigwigs who are tired of 'woke' academia.

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