The Big Three from Arizona State University
ASU, America’s most innovative university, brings you three newsworthy items you can report on right now.
Today’s edition covers:
ASU soars in the rankings — in research expenditures and for producing the nation’s top leaders.
More than 11K graduate this fall with an increase in online students.
And, ’tis the season to be cautious, ASU expert warns.
ASU advances through college rankings
ASU continues to leap ahead in the rankings, with several recent, noteworthy jumps. The National Science Foundation’s HERD (Higher Education Research and Development Survey) data reports that ASU’s nearly $800 million in research expenditures places it among the top 4% of all universities that do research. And according to a new analysis by TIME, ASU has cracked the top 20 in producing the nation’s top leaders.
TIME and Statista analyzed the resumes of 2,000 top leaders in the U.S. and where they went to college. ASU ranks 20th on the list, ahead of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins University.
Cap and gown ready: ASU’s fall graduates shine
More than 11,000 students, including more than 4,600 Arizonans are celebrating their graduation at Arizona State University during fall commencement this week. Nearly 6,000 students will earn degrees through ASU Online. Inspiring students include 15-year-old Alena McQuarter, the youngest Black student to ever be accepted to medical school at age 13, just a year after graduating high school.
Dallas Salas overcame leukemia to earn a degree in neuroscience while his father, a Latin King gang member, has been serving jail time since Dallas was a child. Another incredible graduate is Ted Friedli, who went back to college after a more than three-decade absence. He initially earned a full-ride football scholarship in 1986 but dropped out in 1990. After several setbacks, he went back to ASU through the “Sun Devils for Life” scholarship program, which gives previous student-athletes a second chance at college.
ASU expert warns: Beware the holiday shopping grinch
December temperatures have chilled, and so has consumer spending this season. That’s the warning from W. P. Carey School of Business supply chain expert Hitendra Chaturvedi. You can blame factors like inflation and high interest rates. Despite retailers lengthening the shopping season with slick ads and marketing, it may not be enough to keep spending flowing or to curb a looming recession.
“For example,” says Chaturvedi, “this holiday season, the American consumer is spending less on high-ticket items, as reported by weak sales for Lowe's and Home Depot. Retailers have started to get worried about their sales and profits this holiday season.”
Quotable:
“We’re advancing new solutions, new ideas, new technologies, new ways of solving things, new ways of making things, new ways of making our country better — better protected, more economically successful, more socially just. If you don’t have jobs for people, there’s no social justice.”
— ASU President Michael Crow at the ITSB12 (Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Building 12) groundbreaking at the Polytechnic campus.
ASU Inspiring videos:
End-of-the-year video: A brighter future for all
ITSB-12 groundbreaking at ASU’s Polytechnical Campus
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