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A view of the Barrett, Honors College courtyard
Shaping the Future: Inclusive Visioning at Barrett, The Honors College

Under Dean Tara Williams' leadership, Barrett, The Honors College at ASU undertook a comprehensive, community-driven initiative to redefine its mission and values. Through 17 listening sessions and collaborative retreats, diverse voices contributed to a transformative vision that is energizing and uniting the college.



A portrait of Daniel Markovits
Frank Rhodes Lecture Series | The Human Resource Curse

In this lecture, Daniel Markovits explored how over the course of the past half-century, the United States invented a new, unprecedented, and extreme form of economic hierarchy, which might have been called meritocratic inequality - not because it was justified, but because it was tied to winning at competitions in school and at work.