Educating for a Free Society

Disciplina praesidium civitatis, study is the guardian of the community. So proclaims the motto of The University of Texas at Austin.

To preserve the blessings of liberty, we need leaders in public and private life who are knowledgeable about the ideas and institutions that have made free societies possible. Building on the strengths of UT Austin’s Civitas Institute, we are launching a new school at Texas’s flagship public university that will prepare a rising generation of civic leaders to safeguard human flourishing in our state and nation.

In the School of Civic Leadership, ancient questions –  What is justice? What is liberty? What is true? –  guide our inquiry into the biggest challenges facing the past, present, and future of the American story. Students encounter the distinct inheritance of Western civilization and the American Constitution as part of a larger quest for wisdom about how to live and how to lead in education, government, business, the arts, and culture.