The University of Texas at Austin has named Justin Dyer the new director of its Civitas Institute, formerly known as the Liberty Institute, which will now focus on the “teaching, understanding and appreciation of American values.”
about the center’s mission and whether the Texas Legislature was “politicizing” the university. Last year, state lawmakers allocated $6 million toward the new enterprise. The University of Texas System Board of Regents pledged another $6 million toward the new center last summer.
“Justin is a good guy, but I don’t think he has the needed prominence to make this institution a reality,” Professor Carlos Carvalho wrote in an email to another professor. “I am also very disappointed by the lack of a proper national search for a director. We could have done a lot better!! Jay Hartzell likes people he can control, not top scholars!”
In the announcement, UT-Austin officials said the center’s new name comes from the university’s motto, Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis, meaning “the cultivated mind is the guardian of democracy.”already owned the trademark for the name Liberty InstituteJeff Mateer, the group’s chief legal officer, told the Tribune they had alerted UT-Austin of their objections to use of the name and said UT-Austin had agreed.
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