Arizona State University
Established in Tempe in 1885 by an act of the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature, ASU was initially formed as a teachers college. The core of the Tempe campus was a twenty-acre cow pasture donated by leading citizens who sought an institution to train public school teachers, and provide instruction to their sons and daughters in agriculture and mechanical arts.
Normal School of Arizona in 1901. Subsequent changes were associated with expansions of the curriculum and degrees offered. In rapid succession Tempe state Teachers College became Arizona State Teachers College, and, in 1945 Arizona State College. By 1958 the college The name of the institute changed three times during its first fifteen years, becoming the preformed all the functions of a university and received authorization by an act of the governor to become Arizona State University.
Basic and applied research preceded attainment of university status in 1958, but the development of new academic programs and library holdings, and the conferral of doctoral degrees in the 1060’s led the Carnegie Foundation to grant ASU Research I status in 1994.
Arizona State University is one of the premier metropolitan universities in the nation, an institution of international scope, committed to excellence in teaching, research, and public service. ASU today is poised to become a global center of innovative interdisciplinary research. On July 1, 2002, Michael M. Crow became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University.
Arizona State University became a National Affiliate Training Center in 2007.
College Credit For Summer Training
TBD
College Credit For High School Students
TBD
Contacts
Affiliate Director
Joseph P. Tidwell
Director, Industry and Community Education Programs
College of Science & Technology
7001 E. Williams Field Road
Building 140
Mesa, AZ 85212
Tel: (480) 727-1512
Fax: (480) 727-1089
joseph.tidwell@asu.edu