The Arkanssouri Blog.: Except that there already IS one.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Except that there already IS one.

New for-profit liberal-arts college gains authority to operate.

Virginia's higher-education commission has granted operating authority to
Founders College, a private, for-profit school whose owners are buying an
1,100-acre estate in Campbell County near Lynchburg for its campus.

[...]

Gary Hull, director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace
at Duke University, will be the college's chairman and chief executive and will
serve on the faculty. Another planned Founders faculty member is Eric Daniels, a
visiting assistant professor in the Duke program. They are followers of the
writings of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand and objectivism, which embraces
"rational individualism" and laissez-faire capitalism and rejects altruism and
collectivism.

Hull and Daniels also are affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute, which
states on its Web site: "The major battleground in this fight for reason and
capitalism is the educational institutions — high schools and above all, the
universities, where students learn the ideas that shape their lives."

[But don't get too excited, Randroids.]

Hull said that while objectivism is part of his own philosophy, he denies
the school will be an objectivist university.

"I have my own personal convictions, but as a professional we leave them at the door," Hull said.


Great idea. Not perfect, as evidenced by the "It will not be an objectivist university" line, but a great idea.

But when I google "Founder's College," I find that there already is one. (The new one's site is here, if you're interested.)

I have enough problems keeping up with the Universities of Miamis (here and here, but not here)and the USCs, which wreak havoc on my football picks (here and here.)

So, copyright and intellectual property considerations aside, two Founders Colleges would be confusing.

Patrick Henry University, perhaps? Or Ragnar Danneskjold College? Or maybe Nat Taggart U.?

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