Social Embeddedness
ASU is part of the community. We are not an ivory tower. We don’t sit upon a hill. ASU students come primarily from Arizona, we have campuses throughout the Phoenix metro area, and we work closely with communities. ASU and school districts are partnering to improve the quality of education and high school graduation rates. ASU and local governments are working together to build sustainable communities. ASU and businesses are advancing new innovations. “Social embeddedness” at ASU, with our communities, means “two-way”-every relationship forged benefits both parties, so that the university and communities maintain a stake in what we build together. ASU recognizes that its success depends upon the community’s success and we believe the reverse can be true as well. A university can have an enormous impact on its surrounding community, and ASU wants to make sure it has the right kind of impact: sustainable, empowering, and helping to effect positive change.
“I think that all of our institutions of higher education have an obligation and a duty to produce better citizens.”