ASU President Michael Crow receives 2025 Edison Achievement Award
At the heart of Principled Innovation is the belief that systems — including universities — can be redesigned to serve the public good without abandoning rigor, creativity, or the values that inspire us. In the video below, ASU President Michael Crow shares his bold vision for education as a driver of societal transformation, anchored in values like inclusion, ethical entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven, principled innovation. His remarks reframe excellence as a function of access, adaptability, and human advancement. Today’s challenges are large in scale and complexity and, he argues, require new models of institutions and learning to meet them.
The video was produced in celebration of Crow’s receipt of the 2025 Edison Achievement Award, presented alongside NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang. At the same event, ASU’s groundbreaking NeoBio course — a transdisciplinary, curiosity-driven learning experience designed to help students navigate complexity — was honored with a Gold Edison Award in the EdTech & Learning Evolution category. Together, these recognitions highlight a larger shift: a university leveraging Principled Innovation not only to reimagine what learning can be, but to expand who it’s for and what it makes possible.