Founders College

[Kat]

I've seen some articles about Founders Colllege being started by Gary Hull and Eric Daniels of the Ayn Rand Institute. I am not clear whether it will be in North Carolina or Maine. If anyone has any information on this project, or a link to their site please share it in this thread. Thanks.

Kat

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Plan for New College Draws Scrutiny

Inside Higher Ed - June 9, 2006

New private liberal arts colleges aren’t established every day, so pending proposals in Maine and North Carolina to create institutions from scratch have officials in those states intrigued. But the proposals, which have been cloaked in mystery, are raising some eyebrows — partly because of their sponsors’ ties to Ayn Rand’s Objectivism philosophy, and partly because of suggestions that Maine officials expedited their usual process for approving new colleges because the college’s backers are reportedly looking to buy a vacant $26 million piece of land. (Maine officials deny those accusations.)

Applications to create Founders College, as the new institution would be called, were submitted nearly a year ago in North Carolina and just last month in Maine. The main people behind both applications are Gary Hull and Eric Daniels, who are a senior lecturing fellow and visiting assistant professor, respectively, at Duke University’s Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace, one of multiple such programs at colleges in North Carolina that are supported financially by BB&T Bank.

Hull and Daniels are also officers of two recently established nonprofit groups in North Carolina, Founders College Education, Inc., and the College of Rational Education, Inc., the latter of which, in its North Carolina articles of incorporation, describes its mission as providing “a reality-based, rationally grounded education, by applying Objectivism, the philosophy of Rand, to all of the Corporation’s activities and undertakings.” Both men are also affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute. (Read the entire article at Journal of Higher Ed)