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来自彭博社的报道： 根据该亿万富翁最新慈善机构“The Foundation”（基金会）的税务申报文件，埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在大流行期间搬到德克萨斯州，并计划在奥斯汀开设一所大学。 这所新机构将以马斯克捐赠的大约1亿美元作为启动资金，首先会建立一个以STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）为重点的小学和中学。通过彭博社获取的向国税局提交的免税申请文件显示，一旦这所学校运营起来，其最终目标是“扩大运营，创建一所致力于最高水平教育的大学”。 根据2022年10月提交并于3月份获得批准的申请文件，这所大学将聘请“经验丰富的教师”，并提供传统课程，“同时包括实践学习体验，如模拟、案例研究、制作/设计项目和实验室”。并且该大学将寻求从南方大学及学院委员会获得认证。 代表马斯克的发言人目前没有立即回应评论请求。 这不是52岁的马斯克第一次对创建学校或开设大学的兴趣。大约十年前，这位特斯拉公司的联合创始人在SpaceX的加利福尼亚校园创建了Ad Astra学校，为他的五个孩子和他的太空公司几位员工的孩子服务。当马斯克在2020年搬到德克萨斯州时，这所学校也随之搬迁。 作为德克萨斯大学主校区的所在地，奥斯汀已成为高等教育创新的热点。作为对传统美国大学“非自由主义”态度的替代，奥斯汀大学于的计划大约在两年前启动，计划在秋季开学，首批学生100人。这所学校得到了包括历史学家尼尔·弗格森、前财政部长拉里(劳伦斯)·萨默斯和风险资本家乔·朗斯代尔在内的学术界和金融界知名人士的支持，已经拿到了约2亿美元的私人募捐。 根据申请文件，马斯克的新STEM学校预计首批学生为50人，并且正在寻找执行董事、教师和管理员。基金会的受托人包括负责马斯克家族办公室的贾里德·伯查尔、Withersworldwide的税务律师史蒂文·奇德斯特以及在加利福尼亚的Catalyst家族办公室工作的罗纳德·贡和特蕾莎·霍兰。 这位亿万富翁在2022年向他的马斯克基金会捐赠了价值22亿美元的特斯拉股票。根据最近的税务表格，除了捐赠近1亿美元作为其最新慈善机构的启动资金外，他还向灾难救援非营利组织世界 World Central Kitchen, Khan Academy以及富达慈善组织（Fidelity Charitable）设立的一个捐赠者指导基金会捐赠了一些资金。 根据彭博亿万富翁指数显示，马斯克是世界上最富有的人，净资产为2208亿美元。据《华尔街日报》3月报道，他还在奥斯汀郊外建立了自己的小镇，配有娱乐设施、学校和为特斯拉、SpaceX和Boring公司员工提供的补贴住房。如果获批，这个市政当局将占据他近年来购买的数千英亩土地。 原文： Elon Musk, who moved to Texas during the pandemic, is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for the billionaire’s latest charity called The Foundation. The new institution, seeded with a roughly $100 million gift from Musk, will start with a STEM-focused primary and secondary school. Once that’s operating, it “intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels,” according to an application to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status obtained by Bloomberg. The university will employ “experienced faculty” and feature a traditional curriculum “alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects and labs,” according to the application, which was filed in October 2022 and approved in March. It will seek accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Representatives for Musk didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. This isn’t the first time Musk, 52, has started a school or expressed interest in opening a university. About a decade ago, the Tesla Inc. co-founder created Ad Astra on SpaceX’s California campus for his five kids and a few children of his space company’s employees. When Musk moved to Texas in 2020, the school also moved. Home to the University of Texas’ main campus, Austin has become of hotbed of higher-education innovation. The University of Austin, launched two years ago as an alternative to the “illiberalism” of traditional US colleges, plans to open in the fall with an initial class of 100 students. The school, backed by prominent people in academia and finance, including the historian Niall Ferguson, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, has raised about $200 million in private donations. Musk’s new STEM school was expecting an initial class of 50 students and looking to hire an executive director, teacher and administrator, according to the application. The Foundation’s trustees include Jared Birchall, head of Musk’s family office; Steven Chidester, a tax attorney at Withersworldwide; and Ronald Gong and Teresa Holland, who work at Catalyst Family Office in California. The billionaire sent $2.2 billion worth of Tesla stock to his Musk Foundation in 2022. Along with donating nearly $100 million to seed his newest charity, it also made gifts to disaster relief nonprofit World Central Kitchen, Khan Academy and a donor advised fund at Fidelity Charitable, according to its most recent tax forms. Musk, the world’s richest person with a net worth of $220.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is also creating his own town outside of Austin, with recreational facilities, a school and subsidized housing for employees of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Co., the Wall Street Journal reported in March. If approved, the municipality would occupy thousands of acres he’s acquired in recent years. 出处及其他相关报道： https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... th-100-million-gift https://finance.yahoo.com/news/e ... sity-220500384.html |
