Wisdom is a repositoriy in the governors offices, and we know that we have the greatest collection of educational leaders in he history of the governor on a bipartisan basis, i think is a bipartisan consensus about that this morning. So im looking forward to this discussion. Im going to kick it off by some comments. A few things well look toward to excusing today. How do we help families finance Higher Education in how do we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities . How do we expand opportunities for career connected learning. How do we use data to really use strategies to prioritize our investment. Im looking forwards to comments. A preliminary comment, i know governors have been doing some really progressive work trying to make Higher Education more affordable and accessible to our family us. We know the crushing debt burden our families have and we recognize we have talent on a bipartisan basis, governor jerry brown in california, a really championing a new system in that regard. Governor bevin is in kentucky with the bond issue to scale up work force development, which is really exciting. We have governor brown, my neighbor in oregon, and others have made the first come of years free. So congratulations to all the governors fighting on this front. We know theres innovation on this front thats available, too. If i can talk about things that are successful in my state. A program we call the opportunity scholarship, which allows students if they make a commitment to a stem career to finance their college education, it has been very helpful for Diverse Communities who previously have had low Graduation Rates and its raised their Graduation Rates through fouryear programs above 90 level. And its happened because we had a private and Public Partnership and help fog finance this. We have a goal low name gary rube , special businessmon who moved this and this has been a spectacular success by having a few dollars from the public and private that raised these communities, that historically have 50 Graduation Rate in high school, or 60 , up to 90 plus, through a fouryear Degree Program in stem degrees, highdemand fields. We have a program called college bound, for lowincome kids and diverse populations. If they agree to keep their nose clean and and keep upper the gpa, have success and they have a vision to get through high school. We know Innovation Works and im looking forward to other ideas how to do that. We know we have to look at innovation in our noncollege environment, how to give people connection to the jobs of the future. I dont know what your experience is, but in my experience, theres one thing that i say when im talking to any group in the state of washington, republican, democrat, chambers, urban, one thing i say that gets universal applause and that is that we do have to quit telling our kids that if hey dont get a fouryear degree, theyre a failure in life. Everybody gets that transitional need we have and giving our kids educational opportunities. So governors are leading in this way, in many ways. Ill share a little experience in washington. We had the first Apprenticeship Program of advanced manufacturing where kids in a pay to Apprenticeship Program. In tacoma, washington and had the first group of 12, colorado has done well on this as well. We had the firstolout of the first 12, and they came to sign up with a company they were going to have apprenticeship with and theyd come up and put their hat on and their Company League be and put the shirt on, and it was exciting as draft day in the nba. Lebron james was not as excitinged at these kids. I think thats a future we have to give our kid. 70 of the kids in switzerland, age 17 to 18, are in paid apprenticeships and have almost no unemployment in their young population in switzerland. We had our first Computer Scientist coding Apprenticeship Program, the last two classes. They have 100 employment. A lot of people were midlife and had to go into a coding program and give it an apprenticeship has been spectacularly successful. Im looking forward to share other ideas. Have to do a better job giving die very population access to Higher Education. Were doing that our dreamers are getting Financial Aid to make sure that our dreamers have access and these are the most ambitious, smartest kids in our state. Our kids have been 18 years in our country and want to become daughters and lawyers. I dont know about d. C. But in our state we want them to become doctors and lawyers would and were giving them a chance to finance that. We have challenges in d. C. And i ill join our governors in helping understand our challenges therefrom are threatness the Higher Education act. Proposed cuts to some support systems and i hope were all go going to be vocal in talking to legislators to see we dont go backword in our financial as i system. I want to thank everybody who is pitching in on this and i want to turn it over to south dakotas great governor, who has inspired us in so many ways, one of the most inspirational voice makes sure kids with disabilities get access as well. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you, governors inslee. Thank you all for being here for this presentation, for the grate panel. Today we have the pleasure of being joined by kevin mccarey, the Vice President for education policy and Knowledge Management at new america, where he directs their education policy program. In addition, kevin is the author of a book called the end of college creating the future of learning and the university of everywhere. And i know he is happy to have me mention that. Its available on amazon. But he has been thinking about this and writing about this so im interested to hear from kevin. Always joining us, i susan, former Arizona State university student, a participant in the Starbucks College Achievement plan, and currently a candidate for a masters in Public Health at george mason university. Thank you for being here. And ill turn it over to governor ducey. Thank you very much, governor. As the governor of arizona, i take great pride in introducing a force of nature from arizona. Michael crow came to Arizona State in 2002 via Columbia University, where he was vice provost and in charge of science and technology. He came to our state with a grand vision to create a new American University and the proof is in the pudding. Not only with the full bright scholarships he lab been eight to attract, retain and graduate, but with the distinction of being named the nations most Innovative University for the third year running, by u. S. News world report, beating out institutions such as stafford stanford and m. I. T. He has laid the groundwork to transform the state. The Barrett Honors College at Arizona State university was recently called by the New York Times as the nations Gold Standard in honors colleges. The equivalent of an Ivy League Education at an incredible value to our arizona students. So it gives me great pride to introduce and gave warm nga welcome to michael crow. Applause. Thank you, governor ducey, and governors, its an honor to and privilege to be here and speak with you. I come in hard off the stage coach from arizona, the 48 states added to the lower 48, the frontier, where new models that can help to us shame our future are possible. We have been able to build a new university model, and i mean literally a new university model. We call it the new American University. It could happen been called the odal of university, one connected with everybody, working with everyone, advancing everybody, unblew believe effect e efficient and effective. Could be what the future would need, which is a university which has a connection also to everybody. Connecting at all levels of education and every citizen that needs something from the university. You as governors are the are bitters of the future. Your constitutional assignments unique in our democracy. You have the unique responsibility for advancing and designing those elements of our democracy that are most critically dependent upon education and for overseeing those educational processes in each state. The question to each of you is, can we build a new kind of college or university, Community College, local fouryear public college, Massive Public presearch university . Can we build a system within Higher Education, public Higher Education, in particular that can be actually adaptive, actually respond to the changes that are round us rather than something that you have all been told . The fact there reelingunning that place. We cant get anything done at that place. Et cetera, et cetera. So heres what were facing. Were facing and youre facing at governors, i think, i use this word intently a fundamental economic and social change moment. Like nothing that anyone alive today or our parents or our grandparents or our greatgrandparents have ever experienced and that is the rate of technological advance will excel rid infinitely, and through thatting asel racing all things we think about, the way an economy works, the way work is done, the definition of work, the definition of education, the definition of a career, the definition of a job, the def notification labor, the definition of all things will be altered by the fact that we all carry around Super Computers in our pocket, et cetera, et cetera. You know that. You match that with thing growing diversity of the american population, match that with the unbelievable ride of Global Economic powers, which is fags to longterm benefit of the population of humanity on the planet. Match that together and then you say, what does it take for us to be successful in the future . And im not a politician but i am going to say that if its not 4 or higher Economic Growth on a threeyear running average in all or most of the states and aggregating to a national level, we have problems related to social mobility. Problems relative to further advancement of the population, problems continuing the American Dream if we cant maintain that level of economic advance. If we cant graduate by the age of 18, 895 of our High School Students were assigning them to a life of suffering. Were assigning them to a life of suffering, and you as governors know all of this. If we account get at least 60 in the foreseeable future to some kind of post secondary certificate i use old terms, high school, old tomorrow. Post secondary, old term. College, old term. These are fixed boxes of the past. If we cant get 60 to some kind of post secondary certificate, were about to going to have a work force capable of adjusting quickly enough to the thing that is changing everything, which is upick quick to us, high speed, forever, forever, technological advance. If we cant do that, our ability to accelerate social mobility , our act for our democracy to work will be challenged. Unfortunately, each of you and me in the 16 years ive been at Arizona State, we all inherited a design for public Higher Education that is rigid, fixed, largely incapable of understanding how to modernize, and i dont mean individual Program Order initiatives or this group or this center. I mean in aggregate. So, since 1980, the United States government has assisted citizens of the United States to go to college through pell grant. More than half of them have no degree. Half a trillion dollars of expenditures. What do you call a person that guess to college in the United States today and doesnt finish . 33 million or so of those individuals are living in our states, whats the word . What do you call someone that didnt finish college . Dropout. A derogatory term. We have system of Higher Education which uses derogatory terms to label people that didnt finish their institution, which couldnt adjust to helping them to finish. So this fixed model of Higher Education is so intent that ill give you two examples. A former governor now the president of purdue university, mitch daniel, and Mitch Daniels has been unbelievably innovative and driving forward initiativess and was so bold as to acquire an Online Platform so he could scale purdue universitys Land Grant Mission to something other than just the few kids that could come there and attend the university could he expand the model so everyone would have the opportunity 0 engage purdue, which is a world class, fax, unbelievable institution. Could he do that . He took that risk. What is going on now . His factually have assembled. Voting against him. Theyre going up to chicago and meet with the Higher Learning commission and urge that this thing that he acquired from the market, that he is converting into a not for profit arm to extend the power of purdue university, not be accredited. Called purdue global. That is and i will say it, thats insanity for those on he perdue fact tim im telling you,. [applause] we did a program a few years ago and youll hear from a graduate with the starbucks corporation. Starbucks has more than 130 or 40,000 employees in the United States, half or so went to college and never finished. Couldnt a great conscious, cappallist corporation, company like starbucks, work with a civic minded university to develop a program that could find a way to get people that started college, out in the work force, had debt, some problem, couldnt solve the problem could we come together and figure figure out how to graduate from College Without debt. We graduated a thousand people. Have 7,000 students in the practice with starbucks. We plan on graduating 25,000, for which we had to do brand control to maintain damage control on our own brand, because only a lowlife scum university would be so foolish as to divert the energy of its elite faculty to educating College Dropouts working at starbucks. That is how bad it has gotten. So, out on the frontier, heres what dedecideed to do. I was 12 years at Columbia University as executive vice provost, got tenure there, that was like proving that one could be operate at that kind of level but i learn a lot of lessons there. One thing is that innovation is central to everything and innovation was largely an except in a Science Laboratory or Engineering Laboratory where engineer prosperses around the inveinses and discoveries discod technology on the frontier, we built a new design at all levels. First, with purpose. The university does not exist for the fact can i. Faculty. This is serious business. Our university exists first for the students, second for the community, and the community we serve, and lastly the factually are the means rather than the end of the institution, so do toe do that we redefined our purpose, restructured the charter built around what a Public University is supposed to be. Measured be ininclusion and success of students and measure the success of the university based on who we include and how the students succeed. And then measure the Research Power of the university how be benefited the public, and lastly, the university actually will take responsibility for the outcomes of our community, economic, social, educational, health, wellbeing, if k12 is underperforming we are platterly to blame. For example, second. We changed the design of the universe. Most universities and colleges and Community Colleges you all oversee or fund or interact with in one way or another, theyre run like public agencies. Thats an archaic mod up which will never deliver. They will notebe able to become efficient or effective on increase efficacy with some exception because the design is wrong. Win went away from agency model to an interviews mettle mettle d respond for findings resources beyond those privated by the government. All universities do this but a fundamental design shift. Still on the list of we set out to design a diskind of university. We change our clock speed. This watch that my wife gave me, many years ago, actually measures the rotation of the earth and the speed of the argue rotation. Not a semester. So each second is not a semester. So in a normal academic watch, five second its five semesters. Thats two and a half years. That doesnt work. The clock speed of a modern adaptive Public University must must be at the speed of the economy, the speed of change,