Arizona State University President Michael Crow among U.S. university presidents to watch. The Nov. 23 issue of Time called E. Gordon Gee of Ohio State University as Big Man on Campus and listed nine other presidents to watch.
The story lauds Crow for efforts to change ASU’s party school image to that of the “new American university.”
“He rode into office in 2002 vowing to build a New American University that embraced students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities while giving elite public schools a run for their research money,” the article said.
During his tenure, the university has more than doubled its yearly research spending, boosted its roster of National Merit Scholars 61 percent, claimed a spot on three separate rankings of America’s best colleges, grown the number of low-income freshmen nearly ninefold each year and the population of minority students by 62 percent, Time reports.
