Raising Arizona

Is Michael Crow's remaking of a state university a model, or a mirage?

By JOHN L. PULLEY

Tempe, Ariz.

Nothing sharpens a visionary's inner eye quite like a desert sojourn. Here, where metropolitan Phoenix sprawls across a sun-baked landscape, one of the pre-eminent visionaries is Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University.

Upon...