BOERNE — Geneva School of Boerne will host the Mars Hill Forum, an annual event focused on the intersection of faith and culture, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. for all Geneva parents, friends and community members.
This year’s speakers are Dr. Pano Kanelos, founding President of the University of Austin and former President of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and Jeremy Tate, founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test. They will speak on “The Future of Higher Education in the United States.”
Kanelos is the founding president of the University of Austin, which has raised $200 million in private donations and received state approval since its launch two years ago. UATX will enroll its inaugural undergraduate class in the fall of 2024.
Kanelos has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Fox News, and called “The new Socrates of the Academy” by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
UATX has drawn together leaders and professors from around the world who desire to renew higher education and cultivate virtue in the next generation through the liberal arts.
According to UATX’s website, “We believe great works are not antiquated relics but guides toward intellectual liberation. Our educational approach seeks to free the mind from ephemeral dogmas and biases, to place before it the fundamental questions of human existence, and to open it to enduring sources of truth and meaning.”
Tate has been featured in national news outlets for his work in the realm of college entrance exams. The CLT is a college entrance exam and alternative to the SAT and ACT.
According to CLT’s website, “The CLT exists to reconnect knowledge and virtue by providing meaningful assessments and connections to seekers of truth, goodness, and beauty ... As far back as Plato, the goal of education was understood as developing both intellect and character in students. Its purpose was to help students become better human beings. Standardized tests should reflect that same goal.”
As an organization, CLT currently partners with more than 250 colleges, most of which are, according to CLT’s website, “private, liberal arts, or faith-based colleges that share the organization’s mission to reconnect knowledge and virtue in the classroom.”
Florida’s recent approval of the CLT as an alternative to the SAT and ACT for admissions to public universities testifies to the test’s growing appeal for state officials in addition to students and universities.
The event will take place on the Geneva campus, 113 Cascade Cavern in Boerne. Questions about the event can be directed to Rhetoric School Headmaster, Matt Donnowitz at: [email protected].
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