Michael M. Crow Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/byline/michael-m-crow/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:42:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Michael M. Crow Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/byline/michael-m-crow/ 32 32 It’s Time for Universities to Redesign Their 75-Year-Old Contract https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/ https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46466 American research universities have unleashed an age of massive technical innovation—but they’ve failed to innovate their own designs to meet the changing needs of society.

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]]> https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/feed/ 1 “Universities Are the Invisible Hand.” https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/ https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45590 On March 12, 2025, the leaders of the Issues editorial board—Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University—met on Zoom to offer… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/feed/ 0 What a Coin From 1792 Reveals About America’s Scientific Enterprise https://issues.org/birch-cent-1792-liberty-scientific-enterprise-crow-mayberry-anderson/ https://issues.org/birch-cent-1792-liberty-scientific-enterprise-crow-mayberry-anderson/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40336 It’s thought that the very first coin ever produced by the United States Mint was made on a screw press in a Philadelphia basement in 1792, in the presence of George Washington… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/birch-cent-1792-liberty-scientific-enterprise-crow-mayberry-anderson/feed/ 0 Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation  https://issues.org/trust-science-democracy-misinformation-mcnutt-crow/ https://issues.org/trust-science-democracy-misinformation-mcnutt-crow/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=38810 Scientists and elected leaders must join forces to inform the public’s discretion through improved communication and education.

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]]> https://issues.org/trust-science-democracy-misinformation-mcnutt-crow/feed/ 0 Episode 28: Finding Collective Advantage in Shared Knowledge https://issues.org/episode-28-michael-crow-chips-science-collective-advantage-shared-knowledge/ https://issues.org/episode-28-michael-crow-chips-science-collective-advantage-shared-knowledge/#respond Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:32:53 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=38723 The CHIPS and Science Act aims to secure American competitiveness and innovation by investing $280 billion in domestic semiconductor manufacturing, scientific innovation, and regional development. But if past government investments in science… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/episode-28-michael-crow-chips-science-collective-advantage-shared-knowledge/feed/ 0 The Next 75 Years of US Science and Innovation Policy: An Introduction https://issues.org/the-next-75-years-of-us-science-and-innovation-policy-an-introduction/ https://issues.org/the-next-75-years-of-us-science-and-innovation-policy-an-introduction/#respond Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=30421 Since the end of World War II, a particular conception of the relationship between scientific research and societal benefits has dominated US science and technology policy. As laid out in Vannevar Bush’s… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-next-75-years-of-us-science-and-innovation-policy-an-introduction/feed/ 0 The Emergence of the Fifth Wave in American Higher Education https://issues.org/american-higher-education-accessibility-fifth-wave/ https://issues.org/american-higher-education-accessibility-fifth-wave/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22925 The increasing
selectivity of the top private research universities and liberal arts colleges
in the United States no longer surprises anyone. Harvard, Stanford, and the
rest compete on the basis of this… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/american-higher-education-accessibility-fifth-wave/feed/ 0 Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World https://issues.org/science-institutions/ https://issues.org/science-institutions/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22172 STEF at 75

The story of Vannevar Bush and his 1945 report,
Science, the
Endless Frontier, has attained in a mere 75 years something of the
status—at least among those of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/science-institutions/feed/ 0 A New Model for the American Research University https://issues.org/a-new-model-for-the-american-research-university/ https://issues.org/a-new-model-for-the-american-research-university/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12820 Headlines and pundits proclaiming a crisis in American higher education seem to proliferate on a daily basis. Accounts of skyrocketing sticker prices at our nation’s colleges and universities vie for attention with… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-new-model-for-the-american-research-university/feed/ 0 Forum – Fall 2010 https://issues.org/forum-fall-2010/ https://issues.org/forum-fall-2010/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/forum-58/ University futures
In “Science and the Entrepreneurial University” (Issues, Summer 2010), Richard C. Atkinson and Patricia A. Pelfrey remind us of the extent to which the U.S. economy is… Read More

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