X CEO Elon Musk’s charities have filed forms with the IRS to start an educational institution in Austin, Texas, according to Bloomberg.
The unnamed institution “intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels,” the filing from the charity, called The Foundation, reads.
The filing is “seeded with a roughly $100 million gift from Musk,” Bloomberg reported.
“The university will employ ‘experienced faculty’ and feature a traditional curriculum ‘alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects, and labs,” according to the application.
Social media account End Wokeness said:
“This is exactly what our country needs.”
“Real education, not woke indoctrination,” they said in a post. “This is how you save the empire.”
BREAKING: Elon Musk is creating his own university in Austin, Texas.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 13, 2023
Musk is starting with an elementary and high school focused on STEM, which will slowly expand into a massive university.
This is exactly what our country needs. Real education, not woke indoctrination. This is… pic.twitter.com/FdRy290hOl
“This isn’t the first time Musk, 52, has started a school or expressed interest in opening a university,” Bloomberg noted
“About a decade ago, the Tesla Inc. co-founder created Ad Astra on SpaceX’s California campus for his five kids and a few children of his space company’s employees. When Musk moved to Texas in 2020, the school also moved.”
However, the university won’t be the only experiment in non-woke education in Austin.
The new University of Austin touts itself as an alternative to the “illiberalism” of the educational mainstream and plans to take 100 students in 2024.
At college, I learned super important knowledge, like uhh … 🤔 pic.twitter.com/TI00OcTwEG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2023
“The reality is that many universities no longer have the incentive to create an environment where intellectual dissent is protected and fashionable opinions are scrutinized,” said university president Pano Kanelos.
“At our most prestigious schools, the primary incentive is to function as finishing school for the national and global elite.”
“Amidst the brick and ivy, these students entertain ever-more-inaccessible theories while often just blocks away their neighbors figure out how to scratch out a living.”
As The Western Journal noted, Musk’s university will come from one of the most vociferous critics of higher education — and be focused on STEM.
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