Welcome back everyone.

Jacob Howland joins us now, provost senior vice president for academic affairs, and

dean of intellectual foundations at the University of Austin.

So of course it's an important time to have a university provost on, but what makes it really special is this college,

university is like no other,

and they're starting their first on campus

semester right now,

and it's a lot different than you would think

or most colleges typically are.

Jacob, welcome the Brian Kill Me Show.

It's great to be here, Brian.

Thank you.

So Jacob, tell me what makes the University of Austin different and how special this

month will be.

Okay, well, we are unlike other universities because other universities have really lost the thread.

The purpose of a university is to pursue truth. Other universities have really lost the thread.

The purpose of a university is to pursue truth

and to preserve, transmit, and extend knowledge.

Now I think most universities, or at least many,

have turned into sort of joyless centers of

indoctrination and there are you know statistics that support that in terms of

let's say the ratio of conservatives to liberals on campus which is a kind of index of intellectual

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