For the third consecutive year, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University has been recognized as the world leader in international trade, a distinction awarded by Quacquarelli Symonds, the prestigious global authority on higher education rankings, in its 2025 International Trade Rankings.
From photos to video and audio recordings, administrative records, manuscripts, yearbooks, club information, and faculty and staff bios, the Arizona State University Archives chronicle approximately 140 years of school history — and at 7,200 linear feet, cover roughly the length of 24 Frank Kush Fields.
“ASU’s University Archives encompasses the history of the school from the beginning, all the way back to the 1880s until now,” said Shannon Walker, university archivist with the Community-Driven Archives Initiative who currently manages both the University Archives and the archival collections at Thunderbird School of Global Management. “University Archives is vast, deep and immense. It’s also very rich and unique.
Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown, the newly appointed Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, concluded her first visit to Indonesia, underscoring Thunderbird’s commitment to fostering empowerment, sustainability, and inclusive growth, aligning closely with the nation’s ambitious vision under President Prabowo Subianto’s new administration.
Nadiia Kuzmychova, a student in the Master of Leadership and Management (MLM) program at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and the American University Kyiv (AUK), has been appointed as the deputy minister of education and science of Ukraine. In her new role, Kuzmychova will oversee the strategic direction of school education within the ministry, focusing on transformative initiatives to enhance the country’s education system.
Council on Foreign Relations forum held at ASU weighs global tensions, economic investment
Universities, cities and the private sector can jointly tackle workforce development and downtown economic development for the benefit of communities and the people who live in them — all while meeting students’ desires to meaningfully engage in the world.
That was the message as ASU convened a robust conversation Monday at the ASU California Center Broadway, with the ASU-restored Herald Examiner Building serving as a fitting example of adaptive reuse of historic buildings in city centers.
This summer, 12 undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Global Futures and the Thunderbird School of Global Management participated in the inaugural “Japan–U.S. Global Leadership Program in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” cohort in Japan. The program is an international joint educational initiative hosted by Hiroshima University in partnership with three U.S. institutions: ASU, the University of Texas at Austin and Purdue University.
The international collaboration between Arizona State University and Hainan University (HNU) in southern China has some milestones to celebrate this year.
The Hainan University–Arizona State University International Tourism College (HAITC) received a prestigious award from the Chinese Ministry of Education as it honored its first cohort of master’s degree recipients in late May. In June, ASU and HNU also agreed to renew their joint administration of HAITC for a new five-year term.
Anyone who’s been to Siem Reap knows just how many tuk-tuk drivers there are. But how do thousands of drivers competing for the same work thrive—without resorting to cut-throat business practices that go against Khmer culture? Former Siem Reap resident and Cambodia aficionado Zanny Merullo Steffgen pays a visit to her former home.
【本报讯】由亚省中华商会和亚利桑那州立大学雷鸟全球管理学院共同举办的“中美关系——在今日中国经商”讲座，6月26日在ASUDowntown校区举行，线上线下有近50人参加。