# Pano Kanelos Founding president of the [[University of Austin]] (UATX) and one of its four founders, with [[Joe Lonsdale]], [[Bari Weiss]] and [[Niall Ferguson]]. He left the presidency of St. John's College in Annapolis, a Great Books school, to lead the new university, wrote the November 2021 essay that announced it, and ran it through its first undergraduate year. ## Why it's on the map Kanelos is the founder who lost the argument over what UATX would be. According to [[Politico]], a group of trustees led by Lonsdale persuaded the board in January 2025 that he should leave the presidency and that the curriculum should lean toward technology and away from the Great Books. He was moved to chancellor on May 2, 2025, when [[Carlos Carvalho]] was named president, and left the university on October 1, 2025, in a departure announced by Lonsdale. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## Connections - [[University of Austin]] · [[Joe Lonsdale]] · [[Carlos Carvalho]] - [[Bari Weiss]] · [[Niall Ferguson]]