ASU President Michael Crow; Photographer Annie Griffiths Belt
ASU President Michael Crow told faculty and staff last week that the university must cut anywhere from $25 to $75 million in annual spending. Lawmakers cut ASU funding and the university could face another round of cuts in state funding.
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Annie Griffith Belts found diapers not only helped protect her camera gear while traveling abroad to photograph for National Geographic magazine. She also used them as her kids traveled on assignment with her. Griffiths Belt will be in town at the Mesa Arts Center to talk about her experiences and new book A Camera, Two Kids, And a Camel. She'll talk to host Steve Goldstein and listeners toward the end of the hour.
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Question for President Crow: As an expert on science policiy, Universities including have been increasingly moving towards technology transfer as a way to spin off research and bring in additional revenue; however, given the nature of basic research, a lot of graduate students and other temporary researchers can't join that processes unless they are lucky. Another model that could help more graduate students and other university researchers would be for universities to help young non-faculty level researchers team up with others that complement their technical skills to form new companies, sort of a social capital stimulus plan for innovation. What do you think about that?
QUESTION FOR DR. CROW: Budget cuts are a powerful driving force for change. Such change can take rather blunt yet localized forms, such as amputation, or more sophisticated yet systemic forms, such as adaptation through innovation. Yet, according to Joseph Schumpeter's notion of innovation as "creative destruction", innovation eliminates the status quo by replacing it. In the hope that ASU can innovate its way through this budget crisis, what new ways of doing things can we expect will replace how we are doing things now?
The Arizona Republic reported yesterday that some of the lowest paid, nontenure faculty positions (like Faculty Associates) would be reduced and that class sizes would increase at ASU. But these decisions were made well before the economic crisis hit. These decisions directly impact the quality of education offered most especially to undergraduates.
The university's branding campaign for "The New American University" is an expensive endeavor with $1.8 million just in salary for the Office of Public Affairs and many more millions to produce brochures, websites, commercials, etc. Could President Crow speak to what administrative costs might be cut back in these tough times?
President Crow, please comment on the cutbacks in nursing student enrollment. Arizona is significantly behind the national average of nurses per capita. While educating nurses is expensive, the payback - in terms of job generation and accompanying tax revenue - more than compensates for the initial cost.
Sir, the announcement in the Republic states that the nursing program is being cut in 1/2, for admissions.
As our state ranks very low in health care vs. the US aren't your priorities askew.
With less grads the shortage will get larger, short and long term.
You, the governor, and the board of regents need to rethink this whole idea.
The public deserves better.
Thank you.
There is a group of university presidents that in the last decade or so were able to successfully convince university boards to pay them like CEOs because, according to them, they were more like CEOs of large corporations. On Wall Street, several CEOs that have see their corporations face hard times have resigned or been asked to go. Shouldn't university presidents who lived by the standard of CEOs in good times face the same fate as those CEOs in bad times? That the ASU needs to make a cut of anywhere from $25 to $75 million dollars is sign of a highly-paid university "CEO" out of touch, who has definitely dropped the ball. Why would it be wrong to ask President Crow to resign?
i am an adjunct on the tempe campus and get paid the same amount to teach classes with vastly different enrollments - $3000 for classes of 400 students, $3000 for classes of 25 students. that's $30k to teach 5 classes a semester with no benefits.
are you planning to pay adjuncts the same amount to teach classes with 1000 student enrollment caps?
your plan for the new american university thoughtfully addresses many aspects of the institution. won't you focus some of that innovative attention on suggesting a new way to deploy adjuncts? one that is as rigorous as your ideas concerning tenure...
Is it still a public university if students can't afford to go without 10s of thousands of dollars in debt?
What is the role of the community colleges from the ASU perspective? Might they take up some of the burden of the anticipated increasing number of students?
You said your family enjoyed five years in the middle east. Where there any places your kids didn't like?
Annie will be at the Mesa Arts Center tonight at 7:30, here's a link:
http://www.mesaartscenter.com/performingarts.aspx
It is my dream to take photos and write about traveling all over the world. My fiance grew up traveling, and his family valued those experiences, and I would like to give that to our children in the future. I would love to know what suggestions Annie has for someone wanting to break into the very competitive industry of travel photography.
How did you deal with illness and health care with your children in 3rd world countries?
