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Michael M. Crow[1] (born October 11, 1955) is an American academic administrator and parking enterprise mogul. He is the 16th and current president of Arizona State University, having succeeded Lattie F. Coor on July 1, 2002. During his tenure at ASU, he is credited with creating the New American University model.

He was previously Executive Vice Provost of Columbia University, where he was also Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the School of International and Public Affairs.He is also chairman of the board for In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm.[2][3]

Career

After earning his doctorate, Crow worked as an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment in the United States Congress and was a Research Fellow on the Technology and Information Policy Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He concurrently began his teaching career, first at the University of Kentucky and then at Iowa State University. He joined the Iowa State faculty in 1988 as an Associate Professor and Director of its Institute for Physical Research and Technology. By 1991, he had become an Institute Professor there and had also worked as a consultant for the United States Department of Energy and Columbia University.[4][8]

Crow left Iowa State in 1991 to take up an appointment as Professor of Science and Technology Policy, at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He was a protégé of Jonathan Cole, Provost and Dean of Faculties at Columbia, and his administrative career progressed rapidly. Within two years, Crow was appointed Executive Vice Provost, Columbia's third highest administrative post.[9] At Columbia, he was instrumental in developing the university's digital on-line education strategy and in creating the Columbia Earth Institute.[8] In 1999,Crow was asked by Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet to become chairman of the board for In-Q-Tel,the CIA's venture capital firm.[10][2]

In 2002, Crow was appointed the 16th and current President of Arizona State University. In 2006 he was made a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and in 2008 received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Iowa State University.[11][12]

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>Broken Old Crow??

A New America

University

> https://president.asu.edu/the-president

Michael M. Crow

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 diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_University_model

The New American University modelis a model created by Arizona State University (ASU) 16th President Michael M. Crow to change admissions and teaching methods at American universities in order to widen access to higher education.[1] It was first adopted by the ASU after being implemented in 2014 by the ASU Charter, and was introduced in Crow's 2015 book "Designing the New American University," in which the model was supported by former President Bill Clinton and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.[2][3] Crow stated he first conceived of the idea after moving from his position as Provost at Columbia University to ASU because he believed that universities were no longer fulfilling their social obligations in passing on higher education through their own admissions to be more selective. The move is widely credited with boosting ASU's acceptance rate and increasing class size, helping it become one of the largest public universities in the United States by enrollment.

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>A New America

>University

John Warner - Not impressed

> https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/asu-new-american-university-its-terrifying

ASU Is the "New American University" - It's Terrifying

I don't think I'm going to get invited to speak at ASU any time soon.

John Warner

January 25, 2015

In March, Johns Hopkins University Press will release Arizona State University president Michael Crow’s book (co-authored with William Dabars), Designing the New American University[1].

JHUP’s marketing copy tells us that: “Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and research powerhouse that serves as the foundational prototype for the new model. Crow has led the transformation of ASU into an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact.”

The book has glowing blurbs from both Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush.

Daniel Greenstein,the Gates Foundationdirector of Education, Postsecondary Success says, “This book is a route map, rationale, and guide for the few and the bold who dare to step forward to build the universities we need for the twenty-first century.”

I’ve been thinking about where this “guide” will take us.

It will take us to a place where introductory college-level math is primarily taught by software, rather than people.

It will take us to a place where writing instructors are tasked to teach more than twice as many students as recommended by disciplinary experts[2].

It will take us to a place that relentlessly mines student data to feed into algorithms that advise students on what courses to take, or what they should major in, a path that may differ depending on things like the student’s ethnic background or family structure.

It will take us to a place where enrollment increases by 8% - a “record” 82,000 students - even as state funding is reduced.

It will take us to a place with something called the “Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development[3]” that lists ten staff at various levels of “Vice President” along with three “Directors,” all of whom make six-figure salaries[4].

It will take us to a place where the president of a public university makes $900,000 per year.

It will take us to a place where the tenured faculty are more than content - either because of cowardice or indifference or base callousness - to use their non-tenurable colleagues as generators of surplus in order to protect their own privilege.

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I’m going to have to differ with former president Clinton and possible future president Bush. To me, Arizona State looks like a dystopia, rather than a model for the future.

ASU is pretty clearly set up as a factory of credentialing, and any lip-service to educational excellence, particularly in the undergraduate sphere, is exactly that. I’m certain there are legions of non-tenurable faculty laboring heroically to do the best they can, but it is impossible to look at the available evidence and see quality undergraduate instruction as any kind of institutional priority.

They are increasing enrollment and cutting deals with Starbucks in an effort to hoover up “market share,” which to my knowledge is not a recognized trait of quality education.

They are a corporation where non-tenurable labor functions as engines of surplus in order to support a corporate hierarchy.

Arizona State is indistinguishable from Amazon.

I’m certain that there are people who view this as a good thing, who agree with Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush.

But I’m also confident that very few of the tenured faculty in English (or the humanities as a whole) agree with President Crow’s vision. I bet that they feel besieged by these changes, and there is much grumbling and handwringing.

And yet there is no action. There isn’t even a public outcry of any kind. The Arizona State English department chair Mark Lussier refers all inquiries to a university spokesperson, who – judging from his comment - is quite possibly an algorithm himself.

The protections of tenure are designed for these very contingencies.

What are these tenured faculty afraid of?

My only conclusion is that the tenured faculty in Arizona State’s English department are content to maintain the privilege of their personal gravy trains as long as possible, and they don’t particularly care if it comes at the cost of others.

Of course, their reprieve is temporary. The "New American University" is coming for them next. It’s just a matter of time.

I wish I could say I’ll feel for them when that time comes, but I have a hunch schadenfreude is a more likely emotion.

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>A New America

>University

As President of ASU, Michael Crow has sought to redefine the role of ASU as the New American University.[13][14]

Controversy

These changes have generated praise as well as considerable controversy and criticism, much of it centered around the business-style changes he has imposed on academia.[15][16][17]

According to The Wall Street Journal, these include a tendency toward top-down determination of research directions, and an emphasis on revenue generation.[15] Since his tenure began at ASU, there have been several lawsuits against the university brought by professors alleging that the normal academic procedures for determining professorial tenure and the allocation of research resources were being bypassed.[15][18][19][20][21] Newsweek pointed out that Crow's shift toward a corporate CEO style of academic management with an emphasis on bringing in corporate partners and radically restructuring old departments into interdisciplinary institutes was already evident when he was Vice-Provost of Columbia University in the 1990s.[13] The Wall Street Journal reported in 2006 that during his tenure there Crow "led Columbia into the top ranks of universities by royalty income, bringing in more than $100 million a year."[15]

He was also a key figure in establishing Columbia's interdisciplinary Earth Institute, and in 1999 served as its interim president.[22] Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, whose research group was under the umbrella of the Institute brought a lawsuit against Columbia in 2000 in which she alleged that following a dispute with the university, Crow had ordered the dismantling of her offices and a funding freeze on her research group. (In June 2008, Chichilnisky settled with the university for an undisclosed amount.)[23] Crow celebrated the 20th Anniversary of his Presidency in 2022, atw which time the Arizona Board of Regents named him the Arizona Board of Regents President of Arizona State University.

Personal life

Crow is married to Sybil Francis, who holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology andis CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona, which she co-founded with Lattie Coorin 2002.[24] The couple have one daughter and reside in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Crow also has a son and daughter from a previous marriage.

>https://www.arizonafuture.org/

Our Mission

The Center for the Future of Arizona brings Arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state. We listen to Arizonans to learn what matters most to them, share trusted data about how Arizona is doing in those priority areas, bring critical issues to public attention, and work with communities and leaders to solve public problems.

Key Partners & Donors

The Center for the Future of Arizona is deeply grateful to the many organizations and individuals below for their generous support. In addition to those listed, we wish to acknowledge the vital role of Arizona State University, which continues to serve as a key partner in many facets of our work.

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>A New America

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>Crow is married to Sybil Francis,

Wow. What a racket

> https://www.aztechcouncil.org/center-for-the-future-of-arizona-awarded-more-than-4-1-million-through-u-s-department-of-education-grant-to-expand-career-connected-pathways/

Center for the Future of Arizona awarded $4.1 million through U.S. Department of Education Grantto expand Career Connected Pathways

October 15, 2019

Multi-year grant will help prepare more students for careers in STEM by forging stronger pathways between education and the workforce systems vital to economic innovation

The Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) today announced its award from the U.S. Department of Education of a multi-year grant bringing more than $4.1 million to advance CFA’s Career Connected Pathways (CCP) work addressing Arizona’s urgent need to increase postsecondary enrollment and attainment—particularly of high-needs students—through pathways focused on preparing students for careers in STEM fields including Computer Science and Cybersecurity.

The total budget for the CCP project is $4,162,873 over a 5-year period. Federal funds comprise $3,690,351 or 88.65% of the project budget. An additional $472,522 or 11.35% of grant dollars will come from non-federal matching sources.

In April 2019, CFA in partnership with (JFF) Jobs for the Future, LeadLocal and SRI International, submitted a grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Education through the Education Research and Innovation (EIR) program. These grants provide funding to create, implement, or take to scale an evidence-based innovation to improve academic achievement for high-needs students. CFA’s grant proposal was selected in late September.

>https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/asu-foundation-president-michael-crow-wife-criticized-in-report-9479957

ASU Foundation to Amend Tax Forms After Article on ASU President Crow and Wife, Sybil Francis

Ray Stern July 7, 2017 2:30PM

The Arizona State University Foundation will amend four years of tax forms following an Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting article this week about ASU President Michael Crow and his wife, Sybil Francis.

The article, by ASU journalism student Charles T. Clark, raises new questions about the six-digit salary paid to Francis by the foundation, the university's nonprofit, fundraising arm,which is funded by private contributors.

Francis' lucrative role at the foundation and the ethics of it were first mentioned prominently in a controversial 2008 report by labor-union supporters and workers with the Texas contracting company who built ASU's SkySong multiuse development. The foundation said at the time that the report by Coalition for Justice at Great Western Erectors was a smear job concocted by disgruntled SkySong laborers.

Clark's story focuses on "oddities" in the foundation's IRS Form 990s in the years since then.

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I'm guessing her work inthe White House was for Bill Clinton. She moved to Arizona in 2002.

Sybil Francis

President and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona

Francis is a founding member, President and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona. She oversees CFA’s strategic innovations, research and partnerships as well as advances key initiatives that are part of CFA’s core work areas including Arizona Progress Meters, Civic Health and Education & Workforce Innovation. Prior to her role as President and CEO, she served as Executive Director. Francis serves on multiple boards and committees including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a Fellow and member of the Electorate Nominating Committee; The Nature Conservancy Arizona Chapter Board of Trustees and is Chair of its Conservation and Public Policy Committee; she is a member of the ASU Preparatory Academy’s Board of Directors; a member of the Expect More Arizona Statewide Advisory Council; and a member of the Arizona Business & Education Coalition Board of Directors. Francis also is founding member and Co-Chair of Arizona State University Foundation’s Women and Philanthropy program; a member of the Arizona Women’s Forum; and a member of Charter 100. Prior to moving to Arizona in 2002, Francis’ public policy work focused on advancing the national science and technology enterprise. She is a public policy architect committed to advancing innovative solutions to societal imperatives. Francis began her career working in the U.S. House of Representatives and later served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Executive Office of the President. Francis holds a B.A. in Chemistry at Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Relationships

Interlocks

Giving

Data

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State & NY Senator; 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate

• 4 contributions · 3,700 USD (Feb 24 '08→Oct 6 '16)

Hillary Victory Fund

• 1 contribution · 2,700 USD (Oct 6 '16)

George Edward Brown Jr US Representative from California

• 2 contributions · 400 USD (Jul 23 '97→Oct 27 '98)

Barack Obama44th President of the United States

• 1 contribution · 250 USD (Sep 6 '12)

Marta Macias Brown

• 1 contribution · 200 USD (Sep 13 '99)

Family

Michael Crow President, Arizona State University

• husband

Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• PhD, Political Science

Oberlin College A private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, founded in 1833 by Presbyterian ministers

• BA, Chemistry