ASU – One University in Many Places

Overview of the Transitional Design to 21st Century Excellence

Objective of the Design Process

Build a comprehensive metropolitan research university that is an unparalleled combination of academic excellence and commitment to its social, economic, cultural, and environmental setting.

ASU Challenges

Rapid socio/economic change

Increased global competition

Rapid cultural diversification

Limited higher education infrastructure

Underperforming pre K-20 education

ASU Evolution

Stages of ASU evolutionary history

Physical constraints on the Tempe campus

Limited public and private support for ASU

ASU Design Options

Replication Model

Minnesota, Ohio State, UCLA

Incremental Model

Linear extrapolation to future from ASU of today

Differentiation Model

Building the New American University

New American University: Design Imperatives

ASU Must Become a Force, and Not Only a Place

ASU as Entrepreneur

Pasteur’s Principle

A Focus on the Individual

ASU Must Embrace Its Cultural, Socioeconomic, and Physical Setting

Intellectual Fusion

Social Embeddedness

Global Engagement

New American University: Differentiation Model

Build on existing strengths of ASU:

New, flexible academic units

Strong cooperative environment of staff, faculty and students

Strong and deep linkages to the community

Nationally competitive interdisciplinary traditions

New American University:Differentiation Model

Build for 21st century

Build for teaching and discovery

Build for the community: the University as social enterprise

Build colleges/schools and college/school clusters (campuses) that are different in kind but equal in quality

ASU Design Approach:College/School Centric

Build the University around strong, entrepreneurial colleges/schools.

Create a design that allows colleges/schools to grow and prosper to their intellectual and market limits.

Create a federation of unique colleges/schools as the foundation of the premier metropolitan research university in the United States.

College/School Centric Model: Competition

University success will be driven by academic excellence, social, economic and cultural impact and creativity attained by communities of students, faculty and staff driven to compete at the highest level.

Competition is nurtured and enhanced by close-knit organizations with focused missions and high degrees of freedom. In our case, COLLEGES & SCHOOLS.

College/School Centric Model:Empowerment

Overcome historical physical and fiscal constraints through school level ownership

Encourage and allow new designs and new directions to gain distinctive differentiation for ASU colleges/schools

Empower each college/school to compete at the highest level for students, faculty and resources

College/School Centric Model:Transformation to New ASU Model

Unique intellectual identity within ASU

Unique physical identity within ASU

College/School centric plan for success

Targeted competitors

School specific metrics for success

College/School Centric Model: Conceptualization & Design

Existing Colleges/Schools

Incremental changes after careful

planning

New directions, new models and new

space for many

New and differentiated names

College/School Centric Model:Conceptualization & Design

Re-Designed and New Colleges/Schools

Interdisciplinary initiativites

Transdisciplinary initiatives

New environments for intellectual fusion

College/School Centric Model:Conceptualization & Design

Examples of New Colleges & Schools

School of Life Sciences (Tempe campus)

School of Criminal Justice (West campus)

University College (Capital Center campus)

School of Industrial Administration (Polytechnic campus)

College/School Centric Model: Implementation

Phase 0 Design and Planning2004 – 2006 (1-2 years, depending on program)

Phase 1 Implementation2005 – 2009 (2-4 years depending on programs and facility needs)

Phase 2 University Integration & Linkage2007 – 2012 (3-5 years, depending on program)

College/School Centric Model: Implementation

By 2012 –

On path to be the next great university of America — shaped by its era, its place and its environment.

Summary:Tempe campus

College of Architecture and Environmental Design will offer select programs to students on other campuses.

Herberger College of Fine Arts will develop an arts presence on the Capital Center campus and on the Polytechnic campus.

Del E. Webb School of Construction will continue to be headquartered on the Tempe campus within the Ira. A. Fulton School of Engineering; the school will offer a construction management program on the Tempe campus, and a construction technology program on the Polytechnic campus.

Summary:Polytechnic campus

Movement of Technology and Applied Sciences School to top 5-7 in the U.S.

General engineering program

Real Estate program

Physical Education Program

School of Industrial Administration

Construction Technology Program

Summary:West campus

School of Criminal Justice & Criminology

Recreation and Tourism Management

Program

College of Teacher Education and

Leadership

Summary:Capital Center campus

College of Nursing

Public College

School of Public Affairs

School of Community Development and Service

School of Social Work

Morrison Institute for Public Policy

Summary:Capital Center campus

Cronkite School of Journalism

KAET (Channel 8)

The School of Health Management and Policy

University College School of Interdisciplinary Studies

Community College Alliance

Extended Education

Education, business and communications programs

Summary:Other Significant Decisions

College of Law will continue to explore alternate program opportunities.

Hugh Downs School of Human Communication will remain on the Tempe campus and become part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Justice Studies on the Tempe campus will become the School of Social Inquiry and will decide if it should relocate to the Capital Center campus or become part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe campus.