October 20, 2006

Support at the Top for Sustainability

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Four years ago, Michael M. Crow traded in New York City for the desert. Leaving his job as executive vice provost at Columbia University, he took over the presidency of Arizona State University with a headful of ideas about the future of higher education. One of them was to make sustainability a core principle of his university. It was an unusual, and perhaps necessary, choice, given Arizona State's location within the rapidly growing megalopolis of Phoenix, in a water-starved