{"id":2124886,"date":"2023-12-14T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exactly-what-our-country-needs-elon-musk-planning-new-university-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:07:58","slug":"exactly-what-our-country-needs-elon-musk-planning-new-university-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exactly-what-our-country-needs-elon-musk-planning-new-university-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to Establish New University in Texas: Just What Our Country Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexactly-what-our-country-needs-elon-musk-planning-new-university-in-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2124886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>&#8216;Exactly What Our \u2062Country Needs&#8217;: Elon Musk Planning New University in Texas<\/h2>\n<p>Sure,\u200c Elon Musk bought the most important\u2062 social media platform for sociopolitical discussion in the\u200c West\u2063 and made it a haven for\u200c free speech \u2014 but\u200b if that\u2062 speech is just regurgitated out of the mouths of those who \u2062have been \u2064through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trevor-noah-couldnt-balance-comedy-and-propaganda-as-host-of-the-daily-show\/\" title=\"Trevor Noah Couldn\u2019t Balance Comedy And Propaganda As Host Of \u2018The Daily Show\u2019\">leftist propaganda mill<\/a>\u200c of Western public schools\u2062 and \u200celite universities, that hardly does much to guarantee the freedom\u200b of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Musk apparently thinks\u200d along the same\u200c lines, which \u2064is why \u201cMusk University\u201d \u2064might \u200cindeed be a thing\u2064 sometime in the\u200d not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-13\/musk-planning-new-university-in-austin-with-100-million-gift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> \u2063 from Bloomberg, one of Musk\u2019s charities has\u200d filed forms\u200c with the IRS to start an educational institution in\u200d Austin, \u2062Texas \u2014 the billionaire\u2019s new home after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tesla-announces-will-relocate-headquarters-fascist-democrat-run-california-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoning California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it will \u200bstart with a primary and secondary\u200d school focused on STEM education, \u200cthe unnamed\u2064 institution \u201cintends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at\u2062 the highest levels,\u201d \u2062the filing from the\u2062 charity,\u2063 called The Foundation, reads.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/documents\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/rUU_RDpkhmuQ\/v0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing<\/a> \u200c \u2014 which was\u200b just recently obtained, although it was filed over a year \u200cago in\u2063 October 2022 and approved in March \u2014\u200d is \u201cseeded with a roughly $100 million gift from Musk,\u201d Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university will employ \u2018experienced faculty\u2019 and \u2062feature a traditional curriculum \u2018alongside \u2062hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famous-pro-vaccine-doctor-suspects-pfizer-booster-shot-sent-his-cancer-into-overdrive\/\" title=\"Famous Pro-Vaccine Doctor Suspects Pfizer Booster Shot Sent His Cancer Into Overdrive\">design projects<\/a> and labs,\u2019 according to the application.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the first time\u200d Musk, 52, has started a school or expressed interest in\u200b opening a university,\u201d \u200bBloomberg\u200d added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout a decade ago, the Tesla Inc. co-founder created Ad\u200b Astra on SpaceX\u2019s\u200b California campus for his five kids and a few children of his space company\u2019s employees. When Musk moved to Texas in 2020, the school also moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It \u200balso won\u2019t\u200c be the only experiment in non-woke education in Austin,\u200c an emerging tech and education hub.<\/p>\n<p>While the University of Texas\u2063 at \u2063Austin has been around\u200b since 1883, the \u200dnew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/free-speech-advocates-band-together-form-dynamic-new-university-pursue-truth-battle-woke-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University\u2062 of\u2062 Austin<\/a> \u2014 which has \u200cbeen\u2063 called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/164325\/university-of-austin-anti-woke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-woke<\/a>\u201d \u2064by the \u2064media \u2064and which touts itself as an alternative to the \u201cilliberalism\u201d of the educational mainstream \u2014 plans a fall intake\u200c of 100\u200c students in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that many universities no longer have an \u2064incentive to create an environment where intellectual dissent is protected and fashionable opinions are\u200b scrutinized,\u201d said university president Pano Kanelos \u200dwhen he announced \u200bthe institution\u2019s\u2064 founding in 2021 via former New York \u2063Times writer Bari Weiss\u2019\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/we-cant-wait-for-universities-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt our most prestigious schools, the \u200cprimary incentive is to \u2062function as finishing school for the national \u200cand global\u2062 elite.\u200b Amidst\u200b the brick and \u200divy, these\u2064 students entertain \u200bever-more-inaccessible \u2064theories while often just blocks away their neighbors figure out how\u2062 to scratch \u200dout a living. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s university will come from one of the most vociferous critics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/barstool-sports-boss-dave-portnoy-doubles-list-colleges-banned-hiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher \u2062education<\/a> \u2014 and be focused on STEM, to boot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brilliantly said <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nd6bZBZzK2\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nd6bZBZzK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1734074646654341295?\">December 11, \u200b2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SpaceX and Tesla have noticed a meaningful degradation in the capability of US college\u200d graduates over \u200bthe past several years<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200b Elon \u2064Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1734079335319924786?\">December 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At college, \u200cI learned super important knowledge, \u200blike uhh \u2026 \u200b  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TI00OcTwEG\">pic.twitter.com\/TI00OcTwEG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1698065678832390183?\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s also lamented the affirmative action on college campuses, particularly admittance discrimination against Asian students:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The left hates Asians<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1712094933958398038?\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All of \u200bthat\u2064 is why the conservative social media\u200b account End Wokeness said, \u201cThis is exactly what our country needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal education, not woke indoctrination,\u201d\u2064 they said in a post. \u201cThis is how you save \u200dthe empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Elon Musk is creating\u200d his own university in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is starting with an elementary and high school focused on STEM,\u2064 which \u2062will slowly \u2064expand into a massive university.<\/p>\n<p>This \u200cis exactly what our\u2062 country\u2062 needs. Real education, not woke indoctrination. This is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FdRy290hOl\">pic.twitter.com\/FdRy290hOl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1735006131188048086?\">December 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They\u2019re\u2064 not wrong. Free\u2062 speech is meaningless if most people are taught to aim their torches and pitchforks \u200dat anyone with heterodox views.<\/p>\n<p>One\u200c college may be a small start, but it\u2019s still a start\u2062 \u2014 and\u200c proof that Musk wasn\u2019t planning on stopping at saving X\/Twitter from its \u200down\u2063 censoriousness.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/exactly-country-needs-elon-musk-planning-new-university-texas\/\">&#8216;Exactly What Our Country Needs&#8217;: Elon Musk \u200cPlanning New \u2063University in Texas<\/a> \u2062appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does\u2063 Elon\u2064 Musk&#8217;s emphasis on hands-on \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-education-lesson-from-covid-lockdowns-school-choice-is-imperative-for-every-child\/\" title=\"The Education Lesson from COVID Lockdowns: School Choice Is Imperative for Every Child\">learning experiences<\/a> in STEM subjects differentiate his university\u2063 from traditional educational institutions?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  &#8220;Exactly What Our Country Needs&#8221;: Elon Musk Planning New \u200cUniversity \u200din Texas<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, known for his groundbreaking ventures in technology and space\u200d exploration, is now setting his sights on the education sector.\u200b Musk&#8217;s charitable \u200cfoundation has filed forms with the IRS to establish\u200d an educational\u200d institution in\u2063 Austin, Texas, where the billionaire recently relocated after leaving California.<\/p>\n<p>While the initial\u200d focus of the institution will be\u2062 on primary and secondary education with an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects, the ultimate goal is to expand and create\u200d a university dedicated to education at \u2063the highest levels. Musk has already\u2063 committed around $100 million towards the project, \u2062making it a substantial investment.<\/p>\n<p>The university aims to provide a traditional \u200ccurriculum, complemented\u2062 by hands-on learning experiences such as simulations, \u200dcase studies, fabrication \u2064and design projects, and labs. \u200dThis holistic approach to education reflects Musk&#8217;s belief that practical application is \u2064just as crucial as theoretical\u200d knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>This \u200dis not \u200dMusk&#8217;s\u2064 first foray into\u2062 the field of education. In the past, he established\u200c Ad Astra, a school on SpaceX&#8217;s\u200c California \u2063campus \u200dfor his own\u200d children \u2063and a few children of employees. When Musk moved to Texas in 2020, the school followed suit. This experience has likely \u2062informed his decision to create a larger educational institution\u2062 in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s new university comes at a time when there is\u2063 growing discontent with \u2062the state of\u200d higher education in\u200d the United States. Many critics argue that\u200b universities have \u2064become \u200cecho chambers, promoting a singular ideology and\u200d suppressing\u200b intellectual dissent. The launch of alternative institutions like the recently announced University of \u2063Austin, which positions itself as &#8220;anti-woke,&#8221; suggests \u200ba demand \u200cfor more diverse perspectives in academia.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, \u2063Musk&#8217;s \u200bfocus on STEM education is particularly timely. \u200cIn\u200b recent years, companies like SpaceX and Tesla, both led by Musk, have observed a decline in the capabilities of college graduates in STEM fields. Acknowledging this gap in skillsets, Musk&#8217;s university aims to bridge it by providing a rigorous and hands-on STEM education.<\/p>\n<p>By \u200cestablishing a new university in\u2064 Texas, \u200dMusk is demonstrating his commitment to reshaping the education landscape. \u200cHis \u2062emphasis on intellectual diversity, practical learning experiences, and \u2063STEM subjects is exactly \u2063what many \u200dbelieve the country needs. With his \u2063track record of success and innovative thinking, it\u2062 will be interesting to see how Musk&#8217;s \u2063university contributes to the future of education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, Elon Musk acquired the key Western social media platform, transforming it into a sanctuary for free expression. 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