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Ideas and issues
Under President Crow's leadership, ASU pursues a broadly-scoped and ambitious trajectory to create meaningful change in the lives of its students and the communities it serves
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Excellence
ASU demonstrates that comprehensive excellence and broad access can coexist and thrive in one institution.
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Access
ASU is dedicated to providing all learners with accessible and valuable pathways to knowledge, and preparing universal learners capable of lifelong adaptation.
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Student success
ASU is advancing a student-centric, adaptive design that is nimble and responsive to the needs of learners and the imaginations of faculty and leadership.
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University design
ASU embraces a design mindset focused on relevance, perpetual innovation, outcomes, and creative collaboration that promotes effective solutions.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is a guiding principle at ASU, which drives the development of education, discovery and practices that empower individuals to create a sustainable world.
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Social embeddedness
ASU listens and advances solutions by fostering meaningful partnerships with individuals and organizations across the community who share our vision.
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Global engagement
Global engagement is a core design aspiration that inspires ASU's innovative international alliances and expands the scope of our education and discovery programs.
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Science policy
ASU is committed to the pursuit of use-inspired, world-class research capable of having meaningful social impact.
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Inclusive Excellence
ASU is committed to inclusion -- ethnic, intellectual, socioeconomic and cultural -- and advancing knowledge that reflects the deepest possible grasp of broad perspectives.