Arizona State University President Michael Crow has been called a transformative figure by some and simply controversial by others.

ASU has dramatically changed since Crow was hired from Columbia University in 2002. Now Crow is in the process of changing higher education across the country.

Recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education, reporter Jack Stripling profiled Crow — a self-described knowledge enterprise architect. We talked with Stripling about his story “The Making of a Higher-Ed Agitator.”