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Michael Maurice Crow (born October 11, 1955) is an American academic administrator and parking lot executive. He is the 16th and current president of
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, having succeeded
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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
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, where he was also Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the
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. He is also
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of the board for
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, the
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's
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firm.


Early life and education

Michael Crow was born in
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,
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, on October 11, 1955, the eldest of four siblings. His mother died when he was 9 leaving his widowed father, a sailor in the
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, to raise the children on his own. As is common with
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families, they moved many times during Crow's childhood. Crow was a
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who earned the rank of
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in 1969. By the time he had graduated from
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, he had attended 17 different schools.Fry, Melissa Crytzer (2006)
"Dare Devil"
''ASU Magazine'', Issue 3, 2006. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
He attended
Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...
on an
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, graduating in 1977 with a BA in
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and
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. Following his graduation, he worked for five years at research centers in
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and
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focusing on energy and policy research. Crow earned his doctoral degree in Public Administration, with a focus in Science and Technology Policy, from the
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of
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in 1985.


Career

After earning his doctorate, Crow worked as an advisor to the
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in the
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and was a Research Fellow on the Technology and Information Policy Program at the
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. He concurrently began his teaching career, first at the
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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
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and
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. 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.Kirp, David L. (2004)
''Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education''
p. 297. Harvard University Press.
At Columbia, he was instrumental in developing the university's digital on-line education strategy and in creating the Columbia Earth Institute.''Columbia News'' (March 29, 2002
"Michael Crow Leaving Columbia to Become President of Arizona State University"
Columbia University Office of Public Affairs. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
In 1999, Crow was asked by
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to become chairman of the board for
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, the CIA's venture capital firm. In 2002, Crow was appointed the 16th and current President of
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. 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.


President of Arizona State University

As President of ASU, Michael Crow has sought to redefine the role of ASU as the New American University.''
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'' (August 8, 2008)
"The Campus Of The Future"
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''A New American University Reader: Selected Writings On University Design And Related Topics''
p. 5. Arizona State University.
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.Wysocki, B. (May 4, 2006)

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'', these include a tendency toward top-down determination of research directions, and an emphasis on revenue generation. 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.Irwin, Megan (April 26, 2007)
"ASU, Inc."
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'' pointed out that Crow's shift toward a corporate
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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. ''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." He was also a key figure in establishing Columbia's interdisciplinary Earth Institute, and in 1999 served as its interim president. 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.)


Personal life

Crow is married to Sybil Francis, who holds a PhD in political science from the
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and is CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona, which she co-founded with Lattie Coor in 2002. The couple have one daughter and reside in
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. Crow also has a son and daughter from a previous marriage.Burke, Madelyn (February 21, 2008)
"Sybil Francis works for 'seamless' education system in Arizona"
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Selected publications

Books * ''Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals'' (with Barry Bozeman) (2021) * ''The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education'' (with William B. Dabars) (2020) *''Designing the New American University'' (with William Dabars) (2015) * ''Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the United States'' (with Barry Bozeman) (1998) * ''Synthetic Fuels Technology Development in the United States: A Retrospective Assessment'' (with Barry Bozeman, Walter Meyers and Ralph Shangraw) (1988) Articles *“Toward a Platform for Universal Learning.” ''
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'' (June 22, 2022). *“The Way We Classify College is All Wrong” (with Jeffrey J. Selingo), ''
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'' (October 13, 2021). *“Improving Intellectual Infrastructure in American Higher Education” (with William H. Dabars), '' The Hill'' (July 31, 2021). *“The Next 75 Years of US Science and Innovation Policy: An Introduction” (with Robert Conn, Cynthia Friend and Marcia McNutt), ''
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'' (July 12, 2021). *“The Emergence of the Fifth Wave in American Higher Education” (with William B. Dabars), ''
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'' 36, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 71–74. *“The Arizona State University Interplanetary Initiative: Envisioning and Creating our Human Space Future” (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Evgenya L. Shkolnik),
New Space
' 8, no. 3 (2020): 1-4. *“Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World” (with Marcia McNutt), ''
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'' 36, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 30-34. *“Higher Logic" (with Derrick Anderson),
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' (Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities) 26, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 26–31. *“Design Thinking in Higher Education: Towards Adaptive Enterprise” (with Clark Gilbert and Derrick Anderson), ''
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'' 16, no.1 (2017): 36–41. *“Revisiting ‘Public Administration as a Design Science’ for the Twenty-First Century Public University” (with R.F. Shangraw), ''Public Administration Review'' 76, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 762–763. *“Public Administration and the Imperative for Social Progress.” ''Public Administration Review'' 76, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 215–216. *"A New Model for the American Research University." ''
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'' (Spring 2015): 55–62. * "Innovating Together: Collaboration as a Driving Force to Improve Student Success" (with Bridget Burns and Mark Becker). ''
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'' (March/April 2015): 10–20. * "Look, Then Leap." ''
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'' 499 (July 18, 2013): 275–277. * "Citizen Science U." ''
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'' (October 2012): 48–49. * "Time to Rethink the NIH." ''
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(journal), Nature'' 471 (March 31, 2011): 569–571. * "Differentiating America’s Colleges and Universities: Institutional Innovation in Arizona." ''Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning'' (September/October 2010): 34–39. * "Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development". ''
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'' (American Institute of Biological Sciences) 60, no. 7 (July/August 2010): 488–489. * "Toward Institutional Innovation in America’s Colleges and Universities."
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' (Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities) 18, no. 3 (May/June 2010): 8–13. * "Une nouvelle université américaine?" (with Catherine Paradeise), '' Le Débat: Histoire, Politique, Société'' 156 (September–October 2009): 117–127. * "The Challenge for the Obama Administration Science Team." ''
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'' 25, no. 3 (2009): 29–30. * "Overcoming Stone Age Logic." ''
Issues in Science and Technology ''Issues in Science and Technology'' is a policy journal published by the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Arizona State University. ''Issues'' is a forum for discussion of public policy related to scienc ...
'' 24, no. 2 (2008): 25–26. * "American Education Systems in a Global Context". ''Technology in Society'' 30, no. 3 (July 2008): 279–291. * "Enterprise: The Path to Transformation for Emerging Public Universities." ''The Presidency'' (American Council on Education) 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 24–30. * "None Dare Call It Hubris: The Limits of Knowledge." ''
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'' (Winter 2007): 1–4.


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External links


ASU Office of the President Website
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