The Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation is providing $27.5 million to Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) to develop and deploy promising solutions to sustainability challenges and to educate future leaders in sustainability.
The ASU Leap Day Challenge calls on members of the community to participate online at 229.asu.edu, where they can submit a solution or invest to support other innovators and help make their vision of a better world a reality.
Steven A. Betts has joined the ASU Foundation for A New American University as its senior vice president and managing director of assets. In this role he will be responsible for determining how new and future real estate holdings can be made to perform to the financial benefit of the foundation and, in turn, Arizona State University.
Arizona Technology Enterprises works with faculty, investors and industry partners to speed the flow of innovation from ASU's research laboratory to the marketplace. Here are two recent successes.
The ASU Alumni Association will honor pioneering faculty members and alumni at is annual Founders' Day Awards Dinner, including three-time alumnus Jeanne Herberger and her husband Gary, who individually and together have contributed nearly $28 million to the development of ASU over the past 30 years.
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust recently announced investments totaling more than $13 million to improve health care, expand key healthcare and public policy initiatives as well as address Arizona quality of life issues.
Gretchen E. Buhlig, associate vice president of institutional advancement at A.T. Still University and Joshua M. Friedman, senior director of individual giving for National Public Radio, have been appointed to key vice president positions at the ASU Foundation for A New American University.
R. F. "Rick" Shangraw, Jr., senior vice president for Knowledge Enterprise Development at Arizona State University, has been named chief executive officer of the ASU Foundation for a New American University, announced Bill Post, foundation board chairman, and ASU President Michael M. Crow. The appointment takes effect Nov. 1.
ASU President Michael Crow answers the questions:
American universities think they're doing well. As evidence, they point to selective admissions and arcane scholarship. Michael Crow thinks they're grading themselves too easily. He worries about broader indicators of society's health: declining educational attainment, shrinking wages, environmental degradation. These are the standards by which universities should be judged. They need to worry less about who gets in and more about what comes out.
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