For ASU faculty, milestone employment anniversaries – those numbers of years ending in “0” or “5” – provide special opportunities to reflect on time teaching, researching, learning and contributing toward helping students find their place to work on making a better world.

• Read more about Garden of Dreams still has longtime professor inspired by what SCRD students, community accomplished there nearly a decade ago

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hardest on the most vulnerable people, and Arizona State University students have been working to help one group in downtown Phoenix.

Residents at the Westward Ho apartments – low-income older adults and those with disabilities – have faced extra burdens over the past year. A population that was already susceptible to loneliness was further isolated when they couldn’t see friends and family in person. They were unable to access services in their building, like the computer room, which was closed. Some residents didn’t always have enough to eat.

• Read more about ASU students support Westward Ho residents during pandemic isolation

Maricopa County residents realized a $4.85 return on investment for every dollar the county Parks and Recreation Department spent on operating costs at its eight parks in 2019, according to an ASU economic impact study. 

• Read more about Research finds taxpayers get more than 4 times return on investment in Maricopa County parks and recreation

Arizona State University’s Bachelor of Science degree program in nonprofit leadership and management this fall became the world’s first undergraduate degree curriculum to be accredited by the international Nonprofit Academic Centers Council.

• Read more about ASU bachelor's degree program in nonprofit leadership and management is world’s first to receive NACC accreditation

• Read more about ASU grad found her calling in nonprofits

• Read more about Grad's passion for working with children and sports led her to pursue degree in community sports management

• Read more about Students transform fall grad celebration from in-person to virtual, earn ASU sustainability award

• Read more about With COVID-19, will snowbirds still answer the call of warmer weather?

• Read more about Chinese university donates masks to ASU to aid COVID-19 fight

A professor in the School of Community Resources and Development (SCRD) who is a senior sustainability scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability has been named interim associate dean of research in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions for the 2020-2021 academic year.

• Read more about New interim associate dean, colleagues examine ways Arizona’s tourism industry can best respond to COVID-19 pandemic