Arizona State University, making its first appearance.

■Arizona State University, making its first appearance.

Low and sparsely covered with cacti, Arizona's Phoenix is a place for that.

Sunday morning, quiet. Lots of homeless people .

The Diamondbacks must be disappointed after losing to the Rangers 4-1 in the World Series.

growing city that's ranked 5th in the US .

TSMC is apparently setting up a factory there. I wonder if everyone will become rich like in Hsinchu City.

The whole town is filled with Arizona State University (ASU) buildings.

It has six campuses and 50,000 students. It is considered a world leader in online learning.

Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, and Kate Spade all grew up there.

They filled the area with universities, which improved public safety and even reduced the number of homeless people.

So, it's a city development project centered around a university.

Thunderbird School of Global Management.

It maintains its No. 1 ranking in the US for international management, innovation, and other areas.

It's advertised everywhere as being superior to MIT and Stanford.

It is a prestigious MBA program with a 75-year history, which was merged into ASU in 2014.

I had an in-depth conversation with President Sajeev Khagram.

Global, digital, and innovation are our guiding principles.

We are developing and implementing a digital environment that could be called the "school of the future."

're making it themselves . Amazing.

LED 360-degree immersive video classroom, VR learning, and digital tables for action learning.

There are no traditional classes; instead, we use video-on-demand (VOD) and workshops.

Right?

They've also created a digital twin, and it's capable of metaverse learning.

You can learn just as much, if not more, than you would on campus, no matter where you are.

Right?

In reality, we have offices in Moscow and Geneva.

So, they want to open an Asian school in Tokyo.

President Khagram suggested, "Why don't we do that at iU ?"

Thank you for choosing me.

Let me show you another good thing.

I was then taken to the Media Immersive eXperience (MIX) Centre at the Sydney-Poitiers Film School of ASU.

This film school utilizes cutting-edge Hollywood studio environments, such as theater-like classrooms where 8K projections are shown while editing, and 360-degree immersive labs .

Video production, media technology, game development, and incubation.

It opened in the fall of 2022 and has 1,000 students.

Learn and create in a cutting-edge environment, then go out into Hollywood/the world.

I was blown away by the scale of it.

The director who guided us, Cheryl Isaacs, was a former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

That's the person who decided on the Academy Awards , right ?

This is a university that makes students envious.

"Let's do it together," I said, shaking hands, and my whirlwind inspection came to an end.