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these grants ended up staying in school. "Think of going
through college as driving a car, and the destination of
the car is graduation," Becker told the Hechinger Report
last year. "If you start drifting off the road, we want to
straighten you out and keep you driving forward."
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MARIA KLAWE
Harvey Mudd College
No college administrator is working harder than Klawe to
bridge the gender gap in tech. When she took over the
small California school in 2006, one in ten computer science majors there were women. By last year's incoming
class, that ratio was up to four in ten. To achieve this
unprecedented increase, Klawe overhauled the way the
school recruited and kept female students. Girls who are
accepted are steered toward computer science as either a
major or a minor. While all CS students need to take an introductory class, it's meant to welcome rather than weed
out those who are interested. "I'd be surprised if twenty of
our eighty-five graduates last
year had any experience with
computer science before college," Klawe told Bloomberg
Business last year. This is in
sharp contrast to the CS major stereotype of nerdy men
who started coding before hitting puberty-an image that
can dissuade even the most
STEM-focused women at othMaria Klawe
er schools, who might turn to
a field like biology or chemistry because they think they're
already way behind in CS. It helps that Klawe aggressively
hired female faculty; six of the fifteen current computer
science professors are women. She would be the first to
say that her strategy contains no silver bullet. There's no
magic trick involved in heavily recruiting female students,
making them feel welcome in computer science, and hiring women to teach them. It certainly helps to be a small
private school like Harvey Mudd, which has the resources to do these things. But that doesn't stop it from being
replicable at plenty of other colleges across the country.
DIANA NATALICIO
University of Texas at El Paso
Natalicio has served longer than any other president on
this list, taking over UTEP in 1988. Her reign has seen a
dramatic transformation of the school, growing research
funding from $6 million to $84 million a year, making impacts in fields like tobacco and drug addiction, traumatic brain injuries, vaccines, and obesity prevention, while
creating better student outcomes and changing the makeup of the school to better reflect its largely Hispanic bor-
der community. (The student body is now nearly 80 percent Hispanic, including more than 1,000 Mexican students who cross over the border to attend. That's up
from 55 percent when Natalicio took over.) To illustrate
just how massive this turnaround was, UTEP went from
151st in the Washington Monthly's 2006 college rankings to
tenth this year. The key, Natalicio says, is not just attracting students from the surrounding community, it's keeping them. That means keeping tuition low, keeping classes available in case students miss a semester, and creating
jobs on campus so students
don't need to work inflexible
jobs outside the university.
"When a student is enrolled,
they bring their talent, their
hard work, their commitment to succeed," she told the
Washington Monthly. "And we
should take care of just about
everything else." While NaDiana Natalicio
talicio's overhaul is proof that
colleges don't need to choose
between keeping tuition down and funding research, or
between raising standards and catering to a traditionally
underserved community, rising tuition and state higher
ed funding cuts have left her less than optimistic about
the state of higher education. "I think that we've converted what used to be viewed as a public good into a private
benefit," Natalicio says. "We've said as a society that this
is something that you benefit from, so you ought to pay
for it. And if you can't pay for it, you can't have it. I think
that's a huge mistake."
MICHAEL CROW
Arizona State University
Crow may be the best-known president on this list, thanks
to his school's agreement with Starbucks, which provides
online courses to the coffee chain's employees paid for by
Starbucks and Arizona State.
But while that move made
headlines, Crow's actual impact has been much larger.
Since taking over in 2002, he
grew the university to more
than 80,000 students while
raising graduation rates and
enrolling way more students
from below the poverty line.
Getting more people into the
Michael Crow
workforce with bachelor's degrees is a boon for the country as a whole, and few colleges are able (or willing) to do it by dramatically increasing
their undergraduate capacity. While Arizona State placed
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