“As a nation, we’ll need a fundamental change of perspective and attitude… Many of our current challenges are unprecedented.  There are no standard remedies or go-to fixes this time around.”

-- President Barack Obama,
   Arizona State University Commencement Address, May 2009

From the director:

At Arizona State University we're challenging the very definition of what a university can be. By transcending traditional academic boundaries, fusing new intellectual connections, embracing complexity, and embedding our work in community partnerships, we're radically redesigning higher learning to address the challenges of our time — and prepare graduates for a changing world.

One of many new transdisciplinary schools unique to ASU, the School of Social Transformation brings together scholars, students, and communities in African and African American studies; Asian Pacific American studies; culture, society and education; justice and social inquiry; and women and gender studies. We are focused on transformational knowledge — new research approaches, themes and questions that are embedded in broader historical, social and cultural processes of change — and are pursuing novel collaborative forms of teaching and knowledge creation to make discoveries, to create social innovations and to engage with others in changing the world.  

We invite you to join us on this compelling journey.

--Mary Margaret Fonow