Michael Crow
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Michael Crow is the President of Arizona State University, known for his innovative approaches to education and community engagement. This interview reveals his commitment to creating inclusive educational systems and addressing societal challenges through strategic governance.
“And so we're going down a pave road, then a dirt road, and then a two lane track through a field. We get back to this house. Now, we live in government housing, nothing fancy, living off government commissary and government food supplements on a low salary, you know, one pair, two pairs of blue jeans a year, you know, that kind of thing.”
“Everything in our family was this working class family, you know, in 1965, I looked up on a chart that my dad's pay from the Navy was below the poverty line, which is why we got peanut butter from the government, cheese from the government, powdered milk from the government, lived in public housing, lived in trailer parks, you know, all t…”
“You is that you know, we're green on the fire list. We signed up for the University of Chicago's. Principles of free speech. We practice those and we got people here at the University of Chicago haven't had on their campus in probably 100 years. And so they're all here.”
“Yeah, we'd go in Chicago when he was stationed there for a while. We'd go down to Ohio Street or different streets and sort of areas where there were a lot of what he referred to as Winos. And he'd pay them money to tell us their life story, how they got there. And I don't know what his motivation was.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 571 – Michael Crow
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