A 30+ year veteran of higher ed, with 20 years of university senior leadership experience, I am both passionate about and deeply committed to promoting the power, potential, and bold futures of our great public universities. I currently serve as Senior Advisor to the President of Arizona State University (ASU), where I also holds the titles of University Design Institute (UDI) Senior Fellow and Foundation Professor in Engineering. Prior to joining ASU, I served as Vice President for Research at Kansas State University, Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Vermont, Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and as Head of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. I write and speak about higher ed, leadership, governance, innovation, and change management