ASU President Crow Honored by BGU for Exceptional Leadership
ASU President Crow Honored by BGU for Exceptional Leadership
May 29, 2024
ASU President Prof. Michael Crow Receives Honorary Degree at BGU’s 54th Board of Governors Meeting
The Arizona Republic – Arizona State University (ASU) President Dr. Michael Crow received an honorary doctoral degree for his work in higher education during a trip to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in southern Israel.
Officials with the Israeli university said the degree was a recognition of Crow’s leadership at ASU over the last two decades, particularly for his approach to higher education accessibility, often called the “New American University” model. The two universities have been in a partnership for the last 15 years.
Next month, BGU President Daniel Chamovitz will continue discussions stemming from the ASU partnership in a webinar: What is a Fifth-Wave University and How Will It Lead Israel Forward? Register for this event on Zoom here.
“Today, we recognize Dr. Crow not only for his visionary leadership at ASU but also for his substantial influence on our strategies for advancing education and community development in the Negev,” Prof. Daniel Chamovitz said in a statement.
“As new kinds of egalitarian universities like BGU and ASU emerge, it’s nice to get recognition that the model is important,” Dr. Crow said of the honor.
“It is hard to imagine here, almost eight months after the attack [on October 7], that ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice’ in the words of Martin Luther King,” Crow said.
The visit from Crow comes weeks after a protest led by ASU students and pro-Palestinian advocates ended in the arrests of more than 70 people on campus. The group was one of more than a hundred similar demonstrations across the country calling on their respective universities to cut ties with Israel amid the seventh month of war in Gaza that has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. The protesters also called on Crow to resign his position and demanded an official statement from ASU condemning the violence in Gaza.
“We can and should learn from perspectives different from our own,” he said in a statement shared before his visit to Israel. “And we should embrace the opportunity we have to do this in a safe environment here at the University, free from hostility and fear.”
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