Georgetown and Arizona State University announced a new partnership at a discussion held on Tuesday at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies’ downtown campus. The partnership, which will focus on building leadership among administrators in higher education, is the first partnership for Georgetown as part of its Designing the Future(s) initiative.
“The intent is, between the two schools, to put together a program that is open to all colleges and universities around the country,” said Arizona State Senior Vice President James O’Brien.
According to Walter Rankin, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, the universities’ differences made Arizona State, the largest public university in the country, an attractive partner for Georgetown.
The partnership may, according to O’Brien, create a program to educate administrators on leadership beginning as soon as the fall 2014 semester. O’Brien, however, did not specify what the program would entail, and stressed the partnership was still “very much in the planning stages.”
