It certainly seems to be giving NYU a run for its money. In the news this week: ASU is asking non-tenured faculty to teach 2 extra classes per year without any increase in pay. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/asu-and-non-tenured-human-shields
Which led me to pause and wonder why ASU seems to be at the forefront of every dubious new development in higher-ed in the US. There was the Starbucks partnership earlier this year: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/19/starbucks-asu-scholarships-spending_n_5512376.html And various controversies surrounding their President Michael Crow who styles himself as a Jack Welch-type superstar CEO. See e.g. this one for some cringe-worthy details: http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/grants/news/wsj-research-business.html And oh, by the way, Crow's contract explicitly ties his compensation to US News rankings: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/19/usnews Elizabeth Shermer has written about the rise of ASU into a research university in the 1960s and how it was tied to the growth of the Phoenix metropolis, a growth carefully managed by local business elites: https://books.google.com/books?id=ySPdXiVbsakC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false -raghu.
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