In this episode of Radio Free Campus, podcast co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison talk with Benjamin Crocker, University Dean at the University of Austin (UATX), about UATX’s founding mission, its early successes as a new university, and how UATX sees itself as offering a compelling alternative to what students get from most American universities today.
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