Hispanic Mother Daughter Program: 25 years of enhancing access

For 25 years the Arizona State University Hispanic Mother Daughter Program has been opening doors in higher education for first-generation Hispanic women with the support of their mothers in the educational process. As the program prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary next week, its director, Maria Moreno, joins the President’s Podcast to discuss its history, its future and its important milestone.

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Competition highlights academic excellence at ASU

For the third consecutive fall, teams representing colleges from across Arizona State University will come together this month to compete in a test of knowledge, memory and teamwork. The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have emerged champions in years past, but many others teams are ready and eager to show the world why they are exemplars of ASU’s academic excellence.

This podcast features conversations with Erin Hutchinson, a History major at ASU and Kenneth Lan, a Biology major - both returning team members of last year’s championship team.

Virgil Renzulli, vice president of Public Affairs, who oversees coordination of the annual competition. Joins us in the second half.

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ASU works to advance health care reform

Health care reform is an issue on the minds of many Americans and an especially frequent topic of discussion these days. ASU recently contributed to this critical dialogue by partnering with the Mayo Clinic and The Project for Arizona's Future to host the Southwest Conference for Health Care Reform.  Health care, government, business and education leaders came together on the Tempe campus to draw awareness to the need for patient-focused reform, and I had the opportunity to speak to the group about the importance of formulating thoughtful and comprehensive strategies to meet the complex challenges involved, as well as ASU's efforts to create meaningful progress in this area. Our School of Health Management and Policy, College of Nursing and Health Care Innovation, Department of Biomedical Informatics and others are engaged actively in creating the type of change needed.  I invite interested readers to check out the archived webcasts of each session on the conference web site and to think about attending the Second Annual Health Economics and Policy Lecture at ASU on November 21.

Forum on University Design

In 2005, Arizona State University entered into a groundbreaking partnership with Sichuan University in China to host the China-US Forum on University Design. The event brought U.S. and Chinese university leaders together to discuss higher education public policy reform and the challenges in designing universities to fit 21st century needs. Since then, ASU and Sichuan University have joined with universities around the world to form the University Design Institute, a body dedicated to conducting and publishing research about university design and expanding the dialogue on this important issue.
This podcast features an interview with Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, director of the University Design Institute and Professor of Practice with ASU’s School of Public Affairs, on the topic of the Institute and the 3rd Forum on University Design set to take in December in Washington, D.C.

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