 The focus of ASU on global issues is derivative of our desire to enhance teaching, learning, and discovery for ourselves and everyone that we work with. Global problems are often the most challenging, often the most complicated, often the most transdisciplinary, which excites us. So most global partners are looking for transformative change. We are an institution that has made transformative change a central part of our internal genetics. This is not an institution built on tradition as its principal modality. This is an institution built on innovation the way you solve problems anywhere is to build a learning environment around the problem to use it as a teaching moment and to use discovery as the mechanism by which you derive new solutions. If we're solving an engineering education problem in Vietnam or a renewable energy issue in Central America, we learn as much from implementing the project and from the people that we're working with that we already know. Research is really important as a way to engage with global issues and global problems because you're able to bring new perspectives and new approaches to solving particular problems. We are a knowledge enterprise. We create knowledge, store knowledge, synthesize knowledge, transfer knowledge. We do all of those things and that can only be enhanced by the scale and nature of the complexity of the challenges which we encounter. These are highly activated master teachers and master scholars inside this knowledge enterprise where our product is not esoteric ideas. Our product is derived solutions that lead to particular outcomes and that fundamental purpose for us, that commitment to all elements of society, all problems all things that one can become engaged in. That sets us apart from other universities working in ways that connect people around the world through mutual learning and mutual problem solving from which high levels of respect and understanding can be derived.