A report issued by the Council on Higher Education as a Strategic Asset, or HESA, of which President Crow served as co-chair, outlines critical talent shortages in sectors essential to national strength — health care, cybersecurity and AI, education and engineering — and calls for scalable, coordinated solutions to close these gaps.  

America’s Talent Moonshot: How the United States Can Win the Global Competition for Prosperity and Security

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ASU students share the importance of the university's charter to their learning experiences and their future impact.

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President Crow addresses questions about recent federal changes and their impact on the U.S. higher ed landscape, as well as how ASU is responding to each change.

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President Crow joins Nadine Strossen, legal scholar and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Larry H. Summers, former US Secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard University, for a conversation about free speech on American college and university campuses. The panel was moderated by Douglas Belkin, higher education reporter for the Wall Street Journal,. on March 4, 2025, on the ASU Tempe campus.

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President Crow uses the evolution of the iPhone as an example of the vital impact of academic research on the development of technologies and innovations that people use every day. The talk, with Rice University President Reginald DesRoches, was hosted by the Baker Institute of Public Policy on February 24, 2025, in Houston.

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President Crow co-teaches Public Affairs 547 each spring at ASU, a graduate-level course that examines the impact and importance of science and technology policy, innovation and leadership in shaping the future.

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A closer look at the science, technology and public affairs graduate-level course co-taught each spring by President Crow, which focused the role of science and technology policy in designing the future.

When is a tomato more than a tomato? Crow guides class to a wider view of technology

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