The University of Texas at Austin received $6 million from the state’s budget to launch the conservative-backed Liberty Institute. New emails show that faculty members involved are frustrated with the direction it has taken.
University of Texas professors involved with the proposal for a think tank tentatively called the Liberty Institute say UT President Jay Hartzell “defaulted on the plan” after faculty pushback. The school had received $6 million in the state budget to launch it., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“A growing proportion of our population lacks a basic understanding of the role liberty and private enterprise play in their well-being,” that proposal read. “Too many Americans, particularly younger students, maintain misconceptions about our political system and lack an even basic understanding of the moral, ethical, philosophical and historical foundations underpinning a free society.”
— would help support and attract faculty. And university officials have given no public sign that their vision has changed. “I’m hoping that Jay [Hartzell] might want Robbie as an adviser in setting this up,” Crow wrote to Carvalho and others in July 2021 saying Hartzell and George had a phone call set up to discuss the center. “Robbie agrees that this UT program must have a lot of independence from the forces of the left. He believes the left will relentlessly try to emasculate and destroy our effort.”
While private donors repeatedly emphasized the importance of independence, Hartzell said in faculty council meetings during the semester that other centers on campus do not hire independently. A subset of the committee would focus on launching the institute, including hiring, finding the director and deciding its name.
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