Higher education from the winter nga meeting. This is included michael crow and kevin kerry. Its an hour. Good morning. We have a really great discussion ahead of us this morning of pathways to prosperity examining our possibilities of innovation, and post secondary education and career connected learning for our precious kids in the future of this nation. We know that the font of all wisdom is a repository in the governors offices. We know that we have the greatest collection of education leaders in the history of the country on a bipartisan basis. I think theres a bipartisan consensus about that this morning. Im looking forward to this discussion. Im going to kick it off with comments. A few things well look forward to discussing today. How do we help families finance Higher Education . How do we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities . How do we expand opportunities for a career connected learning . How do we use data to really use strategies to prioritize our investment . Im looking forward to everyones comments. Just preliminary comment about i know governors have been doing really progressive work trying to make Higher Education more affordable and accessible to our families. We know the crushing debt burden our families have. And we recognize we got talent on a bipartisan basis. Governor jerry brown in california has really championed a new system in that regard. The governor in kentucky has overseen a 100 million bond issue to scale up Work Force Development which is really exciting. Weve got governors across the state, governor brown, my neighbor in oregon and others have made the first couple years free. So congratulations to all the governors who are fighting on this front. And we know theres innovation on this front thats available too. Ill talk about a couple things that have been successful in my state. A program we call the opportunity scholarship which allows students if they make a commitment to a stem career to finance their college education. It has been very helpful for Diverse Communities who previously have had low Graduation Rates. Its raised the Graduation Rates all the way through fouryear programs. Its happened because weve had a private and Public Partnership in helping to finance this. We have gary reubens, a successful business person in our state. This thing has been a spectacular success by having a few dollars from the public and the privates that have raised these communities historically that 50 Graduation Rates just in high school or 60 , up to 90 plus through a fouryear Degree Program in stem degrees, high demand fields. We have a program called college bound. It goes to kids mostly lowincome kids in diverse populations. If theyll agree to keep their nose clean and get a good gpa, they get a fouryear program paid. We have increased Graduation Rates by 25 . Once the kids have a vision for thundershower future to get them through high school. We know innovation works. Im looking forward to other ideas an how to do that. We know we have to look at innovation in our kind of our noncollege environment. On how to give people connection to the jobs of the future. I dont know what your experience is, but in my experience, theres one thing that i say when im talking to any group in the state of washington. Republican, democrat, chamber, urban rules. Theres one thing that gets universal applause. That is what we have to quit telling our kids that if they dont get a fouryear degree theyre a failure in life. Everyone gets that transition need we have in getting our kids educational opportunities. Governors are leading in this way, and in many ways. Ill share a little experience in washington. We had the first Apprenticeship Program of advanced manufacturing where kids are actually in a paid Apprenticeship Program in tacoma, washington. We had the first group of 12. It was the first wed done. There was a good job in california and others. Im not the only one. We had the first rollout of the first 12. And they came to sign up to sign up with a company they were going to have an apprenticeship with. Theyd come up and put their hat on with their company logo and put the shirt on. It was as exciting as draft day in the nba. Lebron james wasnt as exciting as these kids signing up for an Apprenticeship Program. 70 of the kids in switzerland are in paid apprenticeships. We had our first apprentice programs, a First Computer Program coding apprentice program. A lot of these people were in midlife. To go into a coding program and an apprenticeship has been successful. Im looking forward to everybody sharing their ideas as well. We need to do a better job giving diverse pop youlations access to Higher Education. Were doing that. Our dreamers are getting Financial Aid to make sure that our dreamers have access and these are some of the most ambitious, smarted kids in our state. Our kids have maybe been 18 years in our country and they want to become doctors and lawyers. I dont know what d. C. Is going to do and how they treat our dreamers but in our state, we want them to be doctors and lawyers, and im glad were giving them a chance to finance that. We have some challenges in d. C. Ill look forward to joining my governors and helping our members of congress understand our challenges. There are some threats right now in the Higher Education act. There are some proposed cuts to some support systems that i hope were all going to be vocal in talking to our legislators to see to it that we dont go back ward in our Financial Aid system. I want to thank everybody pitching in on this. And i want to turn it over to south dakotas great governor who has inspired us in so many ways. And i just want to tell you youve been one of the most inspirational voices ive heard making sure our kids with disabilities get access as well. And governor, thank you. And thank you for your leadership. Thank you, governor. Thank you all for being here for this presentation, for this great panel. Today we have the pleasure of being joined by kevin mccarey, the Vice President for education policy and knowledge manage at new america where he directs their education policy program. In addition, kevin is the author of a book called the end of college creating the future of learning and the university of everywhere. And i know hes happy to have me mention thats available on amazon. Hes been thinking act this and writing about this, so im interested to hear from kevin. Also joining us is susan mojika, a former Arizona State university student. A participant in the Starbucks College Achievement plan and currently a candidate for masters at george basmason university. Were going to recognize our third panelist and first presenter. Thank you very much, governor. As the governor of arizona, i take great pride in introducing a force of nature from arizona. Michael crow came to Arizona State in 2002 via Colombia University where he was vice provost and in charge of science and technology. He came to our state with a grand vision, to create a new American University. And the proof is really in the pudding. Not only with the fall bright scholars that hes been able to attract, retain and graduate, but with the distinction of being named the nations most Innovative University for the third year running by u. S. News and world report, beating out institutions such as stanford an and mit. He has transformed the university and laid the groundwork to transform the state. The merits Honors College at Arizona State university was called the nations Gold Standard in Honors Colleges. The equivalent of an Ivy League Education at an incredible value to our arizona students. It gives me great pride to introduce and if we could give a warm nga welcome to president michael crow. Thank you. Groans, its an privilege to be here. I come in hard off the stagecoach from arizona, 48th state added to the lower 48, the frontier. The frontier where new models that can help us to shape our future are possible. We have been able to build a new university model. And i mean literally a new university model. We call it the new American University. It could have been called the old idea of what an American University was supposed to be. One that was connected with everyone, working with everyone, advancing everyone, efficient and effective. All of those things. It could be what the future would need. A university with a connection to everyone. Connecting autoall levels of education and everyone that needs something from the university. You as governors are the arbiters of the future. You have the unique responsibility for advancing and designing those elements of our democracy that are critically again dependent on education and for overseeing the processes in each of the states. The question to each of you is can we build a new kind of college, community college, university, local fouryear public college, Massive Public research university. Can we build a system within Higher Education, public Higher Education, in particular, that can be actually adaptive . Actually respond to the changes that are around us rather than something that youve all been told, well, the fact is theyre running that place. We cant get anything done at that place. Heres what were facing. Were facing and youre facing as governors, i think, and i use this word intently, a fundamental, economic, and social change moment like nothing that anyone alive today or our parents or our grandparents or our great grandparents have ever experienced. Thats the rate of technological advance will accelerate. And through that acceleration all things that we think about, the way an economy works. The way work is done. The definition of work. The definition of education. The definition of a career. The definition of a job. The definition of labor. The definition of all things will be altered by the fact that we all carry around Super Computers in our pocket. Et cetera, et cetera. You know all of that. You match that with the growing diversity of the american population, with the unbelievable rise of Global Economic powers which is fantastic to the longterm benefit of the population of humanity on this planet. You match all of that together, and then you say what does it take for us to be successful in the future . Im not a politician, but im going to say if its not 4 or higher Economic Growth on a threeyear running average in all or most of the states anding a gaiting to a national level, we have problems relative to the further advancement of our populati population. We have problems with continuing the American Dream if we cant stain that level of economic advance. If we cant graduate by the age of 18, 90 to 95 of High School Students were assigning them to a life of suffering. Were assigning them to a life of suffering. As governors, you know all of this. If we cant get at least 60 in fact foreseeable future to some kind of post secondarier iy certifica certificate, these are old terms, fixed boxes of the past. With f we cant get 60 to a post secondarier iy certificate wont have a work force that can change with advancements. If we cant that, our ability to accelerate social mobility, our ability for our democracy to work will be at some point challenged. Unfortunately each of you and me in the 16 years ive been at Arizona State inherited a design for Public Education thats rigid, fixed, largely incapable of understanding how to modernize. I dont mean individual initiatives. I mean in aggregate. Since 1980 the United States government assisted with pell grants. More than half of them have no degree. Half a trillion dollars of expenditures. What do you call a person that goes to college in the United States today and doesnt finish . 33 million or so of those individuals are living in our states. Whats the word . What do you call someone that didnt finish college . Dropout. Its a derogatory term. We have a system of Higher Education which uses derogatory terms to label people that didnt finish their institution which couldnt adjust to helping them to finish. This fixed model of Higher Education is so intense. Ill give you two examples. One of your former governors is now the president of Purdue University, mitch daniels. He has been innovative and driving forward a number of initiatives. He was so bold as to try to acquire an Online Platform so he could scale Purdue Universitys Land Grant Mission to something other than just the few kids that could attend the university in a physical form. Could he take the land grant model and expand it so everyone had an opportunity to engage purdue, which is a world class fantastic, unbelievable institution . Could he do that . He took that risk. Whats going on now . His faculty have assembled voting against him. Theyre going to chicago and meeting with the Higher Learning commission and urging this thing he acquired from the market that hes extending to extend the power of Purdue University not be accredited. That is, and ill say it, thats insanity to those of you on the purdue faculty. Im just telling you. [ applause ] we did a program a few years ago. Youll hear from one of our graduates with the starbucks graduation. Starbucks has more than 130,000 or 140,000 employees in the United States. Half of them went to college and never finished. Couldnt a great conscious capitalist Corporation Company like starbucks working with their partners work with a civic minded university to find a program to get a way to find people who had debt and a problem and couldnt solve the problem, would we figure out a way to graduate from college from a Great University with no debt. Weve graduated 1,000 people. We plan an graduating 25,000 for which we had to do brand control to maintain damage control on our own brand because only a low life scum university would be so foolish as to divert the energy of its elite faculty to educating College Dropouts working at starbucks. Thats how bad it has gotten. So out on the frontier, heres what we decided to do. I was 12 years at Colombia University as executive vice provost there. Got tenure there. That was like proving that one could be, you know, operate at that kind of level. But i learned a lot of lessons. One of them was that innovation was central to everything and innovation was largely academic culture. Except in a Science Laboratory or engineer laboratory where it prospers around the discoveries of technologies. On the frontier heres what we decided to do. We built a new design at all levels. First was purpose. The university does not exist for the faculty. This is serious business. Our university exists first for the students. Second for the community. And the community we serve. And lastly the faculty are the means rather than the end of the institution. So to do that, we redefined our purpose. We restructured a charter built around with a university is supposed to be. Its based on inclusion and the success of our students. Its based on who we include and how our students succeed. Well measure the research by what did we do to benefit the public in a measurable way. And lastly, the university actually will take responsibility for the outcomes of our community. Economic, social, education, health and well being. If k12 is underperforming, were partly to blame and better look at it as something were partly responsible for. We change the design of the university. Most of the universities and colleges and Community Colleges you all oversee or fund or interact with in one way, theyre run like public agencies. Thats an archaic model. It will never deliver what you want. They will not be able to be efficient or effective or largely increase their efficacy with some exceptions because the design is wrong. We went away from the agency model to the enterprise model. Were responsible for finding resources beyond those resources provided by the government. Some universities do it more than others, but a design shift. We set out to design a different kind of university. We changed our clock speed. This watch that my wife gave me many years ago measures the rotation of the earth and the speed of the earths rotation. Not a semester. Each second is not a semester. In a normal academic watch, five seconds is five semesters. Thats two and a half years. That doesnt work. The clock speed