Michael M. Crow

Michael M. Crow
16th President of
Arizona State University
In office
July 1, 2002 – Present
Preceded by Lattie F. Coor
Personal details
Born (1955-10-11) October 11, 1955
San Diego, California[1]
Spouse(s) Sybil Francis, Ph.D.[2]
Residence Paradise Valley, Arizona
Alma mater Iowa State University
Syracuse University
Profession Professor of Public Policy
Salary $900,000; total annual compensation $728,750 (2007/2008)[3]
Website president.asu.edu

Michael M. Crow (born October 11, 1955) is an American academic and university administrator. He is the 16th and current president of Arizona State University, having succeeded Lattie F. Coor on July 1, 2002. 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.

Life and career

Michael Crow was born in San Diego, California on October 11, 1955, the eldest of four siblings. His mother died when he was 9 leaving his widowed father, a sailor in the United States Navy, to raise the children on his own. In common with many military families, they moved many times during Crow's childhood. By the time he had graduated from high school, he had attended 17 different schools.[4] He attended Iowa State University on an ROTC scholarship, graduating in 1977 with a BA in political science and environmental studies. Following his graduation he worked for five years at research centers in Iowa and Illinois focusing on energy and policy research.[4][5]

After earning his doctoral degree in Public Administration (Science and Technology Policy) from Syracuse University in 1985, he worked as an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment at the U.S. 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 U.S. Department of Energy and Columbia University.[1][6]

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.[7] At Columbia, he was instrumental in developing the university's digital on-line education strategy and in creating the Columbia Earth Institute.[6]

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.[8][9]

President, Arizona State University

As President of ASU, Michael Crow has sought to redefine the role of ASU as the "New American University".[10][11] 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.[12][13][14] According to the Wall Street Journal, these include a tendency toward top-down determination of research directions, and an emphasis on revenue generation.[12] 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.[12][15][16][17][18] 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.[10] 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"[12] He was also a key figure in establishing Columbia's interdisciplinary Earth Institute, and in 1999 served as its interim president.[19] 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.)[20]

Personal life

Crow is married to Sybil Francis, who holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is Executive Director 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 Paradise Valley, Arizona. Crow also has a son and daughter from a previous marriage.[4][21]

Selected publications

Books

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 "Michael M. Crow. Curriculum Vitae." (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Center for the Future of Arizona. Sybil Francis, Ph.D., Executive Director. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek (16 February 2009). "Highest-Paid Presidents of Public Universities, 2007-08". Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 Fry, Melissa Crytzer (2006). "Dare Devil". ASU Magazine, Issue 3, 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Staples, Andy (March 2008). "Inside College Football: Q&A with Arizona State president Michael Crow". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  6. 1 2 Columbia News (29 March 2002) "Michael Crow Leaving Columbia to Become President of Arizona State University". Columbia University Office of Public Affairs. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  7. ↑ Kirp, David L. (2004). Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, p. 297. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674016343
  8. ↑ Iowa State University. Distinguished Alumni Award: Michael M. Crow. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  9. ↑ National Academy of Public Administration. Fellows: Michael M. Crow, Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  10. 1 2 Newsweek (8 August 2008). "The Campus Of The Future"
  11. ↑ Crow, Michael M. (2011). A New American University Reader: Selected Writings On University Design And Related Topics, p. 5. Arizona State University.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Wysocki, B. (May 4, 2006). "Once collegial, research schools now mean business". Wall Street Journal
  13. ↑ Stripling, Jack (16 August 2010). "Arizona State U. has problems, just how its president likes it". USA Today.
  14. ↑ MacEachern, Doug (14 December 2007). "ASU's Michael Crow first 5 years". Arizona Republic
  15. ↑ Irwin, Megan (April 26, 2007). "ASU, Inc.". Phoenix New Times
  16. ↑ Arizona State University (2012). Financial Report 2012, p. 33.
  17. ↑ Phillips, Melissa Lee (March 6, 2006). "ASU cancer researchers fired". The Scientist
  18. ↑ Lecher, Colin (September 2011). "ASU Discrimination Case", p. 42. Phoenix Magazine
  19. ↑ Holden, Constance (5 April 1999). "Earth Institute Director Bows Out". Science
  20. ↑ American Association of University Women (July 2008). "Chichilnisky v. Columbia University"
  21. ↑ Burke, Madelyn (21 February 2008). "Sybil Francis works for 'seamless' education system in Arizona". Arizona Capitol Times. Retrieved 17 November 2012 via Highbeam (subscription required).

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