Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University, shares insights on transforming higher education. He discusses ASU's rise in graduation rates and its inclusive model that champions diversity and innovation. Crow highlights the role of college sports in developing life skills and the impact of technology, including AI and virtual reality, on personalized learning. He emphasizes the balance needed between tech advancements and human insight, expressing optimism about technology fostering collaboration and a new era of educational abundance.
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ASU's Growth and Diversity
Arizona State University (ASU) expanded drastically, increasing graduates by 5x and STEM graduates by 9x since 2002.
ASU's student body is highly diverse, representing all family incomes, states, and 155 countries.
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Innovate University Culture
Design a university that separates itself by inclusion and success, not selectivity.
Use innovation as the principal method and enroll faculty committed to social mission and innovation.
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Embrace Fast Failure and Outcomes
Innovate quickly and accept failures early to adapt fast.
Prioritize outcomes; discard what does not produce better graduation or research results.
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Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic spectrum of the United States, and consequential societal impact.Lauded as the ”#1 most innovative” school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for nine straight years, ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on global challenges. Under Crow’s leadership, ASU has established more than twenty-five new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.
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