Carvalho: UATX requires all undergraduates to take Western civilization core
Carlos Carvalho · This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale · Oct 9, 2025 · at 27:08
University of Austin (UATX) President Carlos Carvalho outlines the university's mandatory foundational curriculum to host Joe Lonsdale.
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“Our students have to engage very rigorously With that throughout about a year, year and a quarter of their curriculum. Everybody, no matter if you want to study computer science, or if you want to study you know, literature, you're gonna have to go through this together, debate, engage in Socratic discussions, without AI, reading books, getting really deeply into those ideas.”
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