US higher education: The Arizona experiment.

The article focuses on the educational objectives and goals of Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. Grow took the reigns of the university and gave it direction and energy beyond anyone could have imagined. He wanted to build a new American university for the twenty-first century. The key to his vision is to break away from the department-based model of most universities and build up excellence at problem-focused, interdisciplinary research centers.