Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science & technology policy scholar, & higher education leader. He became the 16th president of Arizona State University in July 2002 & has spearheaded ASU’s rapid & groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of America’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic & socioeconomic diversity of the United States, & consequential societal impact.