Posted on 02/04/2024 7:13:50 AM PST by karpov
Quite a few scholars have written in favor of developing new institutions of higher education, since most of our current ones have been captured by ideological activists. For example, in this Martin Center article, Robert Wright advocates a “parallel university system.”
On that score, there is some good news—it’s happening.
The Universidad de las Hespérides is a start-up, online, classical-liberal endeavor. It is an exciting exercise in academic entrepreneurship, combining virtual courses for students around the globe, a blend of synchronous and asynchronous classes, and rigorous scientific inquiry that is firmly based in an appreciation for the philosophical and institutional foundations of a free society.
Hespérides is an offshoot of Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM). UFM was founded in Guatemala City in 1971 by academic entrepreneur and former Mont Pelerin Society president Manuel “Muso” Ayau. Muso was horrified by the statism and mediocrity of Guatemala’s universities. So he founded his own, with $40,000 and 125 students, around the free-market Centro de Estudios Económico-Sociales (CEES).
The CEES motto says it all: por una sociedad libre, sin coercion ni privilegios (“for a free society, without coercion or privileges”). UFM, meanwhile, now offers 24 undergraduate degrees, from medicine to economics and from architecture to political science, along with the same number of master’s degrees and a handful of doctorates.
It has two satellite campuses, in Panama City and Madrid. The university’s mission is “to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and overall economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons.” It has become a beacon of liberty in Latin America. Every time I visit the campus, I bump into old friends in the liberty movement, from Argentina to Mexico.
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Democrats want to blow up the coal mine.
It will just be a matter of time till the campus will be in the same problems as the current universities. They will take the money from the donors and play the game. Or they will be forced out.
wy69
It will just be a matter of time till the campus will be in the same problems as the current universities. They will take the money from the donors and play the game. Or they will be forced out.
wy69
You can say that again!
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