<span id="docs-internal-guid-80fcdbe9-2cd2-d402-20f0-f5fa55167bc8"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">President Michael M. Crow has positioned </span>[http://www.asu.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Arizona State University</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">as the model for a New American University. The [https://president.asu.edu/about/asucharter ASU Charter] states that the university is "measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves."</span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embedded in the university's mission and goals, is the desire to "b</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ecome a leading American center for innovation and entrepreneurship at all levels." As of 2018, [https://asunow.asu.edu/20180909-asu-news-ranked-most-innovative-US-school-fourth-time ASU has been ranked the most innovative university in the country] for four consecutive years by a US News and World Report survey of academic leaders.</span>
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