University President Michael Crow has been discussing the design for a public four-year college in Arizona, according to a recent Twitter update and Virgil Renzulli, vice president of public affairs.
“We’re talking about developing new parts of ASU to develop a four-year college,” Renzulli said.
He said that there is no institution really in between a community college and a university.
“This would be a different model,” Renzulli said.
The college being discussed would have no research aspects and therefore would be cheaper to the state and students.
“We would be looking to put [the college or colleges] elsewhere, where there aren’t institutions to serve people in the area,” Renzulli said.
He said that overall the two main goals of building a four-year public college would be to put more education institutions in areas that need them and to build a “new model that doesn’t exist in the state.”
The model is still under discussion currently.
The idea of a fourth state university has been discussed by Crow during the spring semester and by Ernest Calderón, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, in a State Press story on May 5.
Calderón said the governor asked each university president in Arizona to come up with different ideas for the new school, according to the article.
