Kanelos: Last Era of Elite US University Founding Was Early 20th Century
Pano Kanelos · Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale · Feb 10, 2022 · at 35:02
Pano Kanelos is the founding president of the University of Austin (UATX). He discusses the historical precedent for founding major American research universities.
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“I mean, the last time that, you know let's say an elite university was founded was in the late 19th and early 20th century. There was a kind of a period there where some of the great current, current great universities, Hopkins, Chicago, and the university of those ilk were started.”
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