School of Civic Leadership I The University of Texas at Austin

Education for a Free SocietyLiberty depends on citizens who understand the ideas and institutions that have made free, prosperous societies possible.UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership is a new school that prepares a rising generation to advance human flourishing in our state and nation.The School of Civic Leadership is home to a community of scholars and students who draw on ancient questions—What is justice? What is liberty? What is true?—to prepare for lives of significance and for successful careers. We wrestle with the great ideas of the Western tradition to prepare ourselves for the opportunities and challenges of our moment. We study the best achievements and greatest difficulties of the American tradition in order to understand what it takes to preserve the blessings of liberty for ourselves and for others.Students in the SCL encounter the distinct inheritance of Western civilization and the American constitutional tradition as part of a larger quest for wisdom about how to live and how to lead.