Derrick Anderson
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Phone: 480-727-2337
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Mail code: 3720Campus: Otherus
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Dr. Derrick M. Anderson is a public institution and policy design scholar at Arizona State University, where he is tenured in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and appointed as a senior global futures scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He also has faculty affiliations with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Barrett Honors College. He has previously been affiliated with the Center for Biodiversity and Outcomes and the Center for Organization Research and Design. Anderson’s research spans the fields of public management, organizational theory, and science and technology policy, with a particular focus on the governance of emerging technologies, institutional transformation, and university design. His work has been published in leading journals, such as Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Regulation and Governance, and Conservation Biology.
Anderson regularly translates his research into practice as an advisor to government agencies, lawmakers, companies, social impact funds, and universities and university systems. In 2021, Anderson was appointed Senior Vice President of Education Futures at the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington, D.C., where he oversees national initiatives involving hundreds of universities, dozens of industry organizations, and millions of learners.
Anderson’s leadership challenges the traditional view that public service is the work of government and asserts that all organizations from all sectors have roles to play in creating public value. With this background, Anderson is an architect, with Michael Crow, of ASU’s “public enterprise” thinking, and works regularly across sectors. He has developed mission-driven private equity investment strategies for multiple social impact organizations. He serves on the board of GED Testing Services, a global joint venture between Pearson and ACE that operates in all 50 states and nearly 30 countries, providing education pathways for nearly 900,000 individuals annually.
Anderson’s work is or has been supported by major foundations and government agencies such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, and Science, and Technology, and the US Agency for International Development, highlighting his impact on both national and international levels. He has served as an advisor to many large-scale public service organizations and institutions, including the US Department of Education, the US Department of Defense, and many state governments, in addition to universities and university systems domestically and internationally. Anderson’s research and impact initiatives have received more than $100 million in funding since 2017.
Anderson earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Georgia and an MPP in Science and Technology Policy from Arizona State University.
Select writings:
- Toward a Platform for Universal Learning with Michael Crow, William Dabars
- AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator with Michael Crow, Nicole Mayberry
- What a Coin From 1792 Reveals About America’s Scientific Enterprise, with Michael Crow, Nicole Mayberry
- Value Proposition: How Higher Education Can Provide More Bang for the Buck with Michael Crow
- Giving College Credit for Skills and Experiences with Deborah Santiago
- Discovering Truth
- Next Generation Advising Solutions: Insights and Case Studies for Higher Education with Matthew Williams, Sukhwant Jhaj, Jonathan Myers
- The “New Normal” Paradox: What COVID-19 Has Revealed About Higher Education with Michael Crow
- Going Back to School to Deal With Hard Times? For-Profit Schools Could Make Things Even Harder with Molly Ott
- Rethinking Academic Entrepreneurship: University Governance and the Emergence of the Academic Enterprise with Michael Crow, Kyle Whitman
- Higher Logic with Michael Crow
- Design Thinking in Higher Education with Clark G. Gilbert and Michael Crow
- The Public Administration of Knowledge Organizations with Andrew Whitford
- The Institutional Design Frontiers of Publicness and University Performance with Andrew Whitford
- The Multidimensional Consequence of Disruption in Higher Education with Kevin Todd
- Economic Prosperity in Utah and Arizona: What Does the Future Hold? with Dennis Hoffman
- Research Universities Are for Undergraduates, Whether They Know It or Not with Michael Crow
- For-Profit Universities Are Not Inherently Bad, Just Empirically Bad with Barry Bozeman
- Online Learning: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism with Michael Crow
- Ph.D. University of Georgia.
- M.P.P. Arizona State University
- B.S. Arizona State University
Public management, organizational theory and behavior, science and technology policy, governance of emerging technologies, R&D management and policy, social science research methods.
PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. (2021). Integrating Logics in the Governance of Emerging Technologies. Cambridge University Press.
PUBLICATIONS—REFEREED ARTICLES
Snyder, R; Barton, Chris; Sangolqui, P; Carr Kelman, Candice; Arízaga, Martha; Gerber, Leah; and Anderson, Derrick. (revise and resubmit). A scorecard approach to assessing knowledge partnerships in conservation science: A case study of the Galapagos Islands. Conservation Science and Practice. (IF: 2.8)
Gerber, Leah; Barton, Chris; and Anderson, Derrick. (2023). Aligning the logic of inquiry and the logic of action to address the biodiversity crisis. Conservation Biology. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14128. (IF: 5.2)
Carr Kelman, Candice; Barton, Chris; Whitman, Kyle; Anderson, Derrick; and Gerber, Leah. (2022). Five approaches to producing actionable science in conservation. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14039. (IF: 5.2)
Barton, Chris; Wang, Qingqing; Anderson, Derrick; and Callow, Drew. (2021). “Synchronizing the logic of scientific inquiry with the logic of action: the case of urban climate policy,” Sustainability. 12(19): 10625. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910625. (IF: 3.3)
Barton, Chris; Slade, Catherine; and Anderson, Derrick (2021). “Norm Transfer in US Technology Transfer: A Lesson for Policy Makers,” Journal of Technology Management and Innovation. 16(3): 35-46. https://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/3784. (CiteScore: 2.0)
Whitford, Andrew; Yates, Jeff; Burchfield, Adam; Anastasopoulos, Jason; and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). The Adoption of robotics by government agencies: Evidence from crime labs. Public Administration Review. 80(6): 976-988. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/puar.13301. (IF: 6.1)
Gerber, Leah; Barton, Chris; Cheng, Samantha; and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). Producing actionable science in conservation: Best practices for organizations and individuals. Conservation Science and Practice, 2(12), e295. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
doi/full/10.1111/csp2.295. (IF: 2.8)
Whitford, Andrew and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). Governance landscapes for emerging technologies: The Case of Cryptocurrencies. Regulation and Governance. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12366. (IF: 3.2)
Crow, Michael; Whitman, Kyle; and Anderson, Derrick. (2019). Rethinking academic entrepreneurship: University governance and the emergence of the academic enterprise. Public Administration Review. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13069. (IF: 6.1)
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. (2018). Designing Systems for the Co-production of Public Knowledge: Considerations for National Statistical Systems. Policy Design and Practice. 1(1): 79-89. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2017.
1415782. (IF: 3.1)
*Gilbert, Clark; Crow, Michael; and Anderson, Derrick. (2017). Design Thinking in Higher Education: Towards Adaptive Enterprise. Stanford Social Innovation Review. 16(1): 36-41. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/design_thinking_for_higher_education.
Talmage, Craig; Anderson, Derrick; and Searle, Mark. (2017). Whither recreation and parks? Understanding the decline of public institutions through a preliminary theory of adaptive publicness. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. 1(2) 143-158. https://academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ppmgov/gvx006/4259160. (IF: 2.7)
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. (2017). “Developing knowledge states: Technology and the enhancement of national statistical capacity.” Review of Policy Research. 34(3): 400-420. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12230/full. (IF: 2.3)
Anderson, Derrick and Taggart, Gabel. (2016). “Public policies, organizations and the roots of public value failure: The case of for-profit higher education.” Public Administration Review. 76(5), 779-789. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.12606/full. (IF: 6.1)
Anderson, Derrick and Stritch, Justin. (2016). “Goal clarity, Task Significance, and Performance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 26(3), 211-225. http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/08/06/
jopart.muv019.long. (IF: 2.3)
Anderson, Derrick and Slade, Catherine. (2016). “Managing Institutional Research Advancement: Implications from a university faculty time allocation study.” Research in Higher Education. 57(1): 99-121. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-015-9376-9. (IF: 1.9)
Bozeman, Barry and Anderson, Derrick. (2016). “Public policy and the origins of bureaucratic red tape: Implications of the Stanford Yacht Scandal.” Administration and Society. 48(6): 736-759. http://aas.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/21/0095399714541265.full.pdf. (IF: 3.2)
Anderson, Derrick and Edwards, Barry. (2015) “Unfulfilled promise: Laboratory experiments in public administration research.” Public Management Review. 17(10): 1518-1542. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14719037.2014.943272#.VigW9ucmDag. (IF: 5.0)
Anderson, Derrick and Slade, Catherine. (2013). “Agenda setting in emergent R&D policy subsystems: Examining discourse effects of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. Review of Policy Research. 30(5): 447-463. http://onlinelibrary
.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12033/full. (IF: 2.3)
Fisher, Erik; Slade, Catherine; Anderson, Derrick; and Bozeman, Barry. (2010). "The Public Value of Nanotechnology?”. Scientometrics 85(1): 29-39. http://www.akademiai.com/
doi/abs/10.1007/s11192-010-0237-1. (IF: 3.5)
*Refereed by an editorial board.
PUBLICATIONS—BOOK CHAPTERS
Barton, Chris; Anderson, Derrick; Gerber, Leah; Carr Kelman, Candice; and Arízaga, Martha. (2024). A Scorecard for Designing and Evaluating University Partnerships. In O’Regan, N. (ed). From Purpose to Impact: The University and Business Partnership. Routledge.
Crow, Michael; Dabars, William; and Anderson, Derrick. (2024). Toward a platform for universal learning. A Handbook of Higher Education Leadership. Ed Ray (ed). Oregon State University Press. Available online here: https://open.oregonstate.education/
handbookhighereducationleadership/front-matter/introduction/
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2021). Design-build: Making sense of routine and transformational change in higher education. The College President’s Handbook. James Soto Antony, Ana Mari Cauce, Lynn Gangone, Tara Nicola (eds). Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.
Crow, Michael; Dabars, William; and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). Building a research university where all people matter. Democracy Unchained. David Orr (ed).
Crow, Michael; Anderson, Derrick; and Whitman, Kyle. (2018). The university as an academic enterprise: A new institutional logic for public higher education. Places of Engagement - Reflections on Higher Education in 2040. Rob van der Vaart and Armand Heijnen (eds). Utrecht University Press. The Netherlands.
Anderson, Derrick. (2013). “The cochlear implant controversy: Lessons learned for using anticipatory governance to address societal concerns of nano-scale neural interface technologies.” Nanotechnology, the Brain and the Future. Clark Miller, Jason Robert and Ira Bennett (eds). Springer.
PUBLICATIONS—PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL SYMPOSIA
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. editors (2018). The public administration of knowledge organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Available online: https://academic.oup.com/jpart/pages/knowledge_orgs_vi. (IF: 2.3)
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. editors, (2016). Institutional Design Frontiers of Publicness and University Performance. Public Administration Review. 76(5). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15406210/2016/76/5. (IF: 6.1)
PUBLICATIONS—OTHER PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Crow, Michael; Mayberry, Nicole; Mitchell, Ted; and Anderson, Derrick. (2024). AI can transform the classroom just like the calculator. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican
.com/article/ai-can-transform-the-classroom-just-like-the-calculator/.
Crow, Michael; Mayberry, Nicole; and Anderson, Derrick. (2023). What a coin from 1792 tells us about US science and technology policy. Issues in Science and Technology. What a Coin From 1792 Reveals About America’s Scientific Enterprise (issues.org).
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2023). Value proposition: How higher education can provide more bang for the buck. Deseret Magazine. https://www.deseret.com/
2023/8/30/23826683/higher-education-value-op-ed.
Anderson, Derrick and Santiago, Deborah. (2023). Giving College Credit for Skills and Experiences. Fierce Education. https://www.fierceeducation.com/teaching-learning/giving-college-credit-skills-and-experiences
Anderson, Derrick. (2022). Discovering Truth. Deseret Magazine. https://www.deseret.com/
2022/9/14/23319234/derrick-anderson-can-science-and-religion-coexist.
Anderson, Derrick; Williams, Matthew; Jhaj, Sukhwant; and Myers, Jonathan. (2021). “Next Generation Advising Solutions: Insights and case studies for higher education.” Strategy report prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group. https://scaleu.org/sites/default/files/202201/PA_BMGFAdvising
CaseStudiesReportv.2.pdf#:~:text=Properly%20designed%20and%20implemented%2C%20Next,retention%20and%20graduation%20and%20helps.
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). The “new normal” paradox: What COVID-19 has revealed about higher education. Big Think. https://bigthink.com/Charles-Koch-Foundation/asu-coronavirus-education-innovation.
Shaikh, Aashiq, Linda Nguyen, Alireza Bahremand, Hannah Bartolomea, Frank Liu, Van Nguyen, Derrick Anderson, and Robert LiKamWa. (2020) "Coordinate: A Spreadsheet-Programmable Augmented Reality Framework for Immersive Map-Based Visualizations." In Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR). IEEE, 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8942377.
Ott, Molly and Anderson, Derrick. (2020). Going back to school to deal with hard times? For-profit schools could make things even harder. The Conversation. Available online: https://theconversation.com/going-back-to-school-to-deal-with-hard-times-for-profit-schools-could-make-things-even-harder-134872.
Noziglia, Rachael; McDaniel, Troy; Anderson, Derrick; and Panchanathan, Sethuraman. (2019). MisophoniAPP: Person-Centric Gamified Therapy for Smarter Treatment of Misophonia. Conferences Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Ottawa, Canada.
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2018). Higher Logic. Trusteeship. August/September 2018. https://www.agb.org/trusteeship/2018/summer/higher-logic.
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford Andrew. (2018). The public administration of knowledge organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://academic.
oup.com/DocumentLibrary/jpart/AndersonWhitford_Introduction.pdf. (IF: 2.3)
Anderson, Derrick and Whitford, Andrew. (2016). The institutional design frontiers of publicness and university performance. Public Administration Review. 76(5): 753-755. Online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.12627/full. (IF: 6.1)
Todd, Kevin and Anderson, Derrick. (2016). The multidimensional consequence of disruption in higher education. Public Administration Review. 76(5): 821-822. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1111/puar.12618/full. (IF: 6.1)
Hoffman, Dennis and Anderson, Derrick. (2015). Economic prosperity in Utah and Arizona: What does the future hold? Deseret News. November 3, 2015. Online at: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640511/Economic-prosperity-in-Utah-Arizona-What-does-the-future-hold.html?pg=all.
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2015). Research universities are for undergraduates, whether they know it or not. Deseret News. April 24, 2015. Online at: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865627172/Research-universities-are-for-undergraduates-whether-they-know-it-or-not.html?pg=all.
Bozeman, Barry and Anderson, Derrick. (2014). For-profit Universities are Not Inherently Bad, Just Empirically Bad. Boston Globe. November 16, 2014. Online at: https://www.boston
globe.com/opinion/2014/11/16/for-profit-universities-are-not-inherently-bad-just-empirically-bad/mTMDbC0xUXSYWAdeBD3rwO/story.html.
Crow, Michael and Anderson, Derrick. (2014). Online learning: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism. Deseret News. September 17, 2014. Online at: http://national.deseret
news.com/article/2358/Online-learning-Pessimism-optimism-and-realism.html.
PUBLICATIONS–TECHNICAL AND POLICY REPORTS (SELECTION)
2021 Indicators of racial equality in Arizona. Arizona State University & Greater Phoenix Leadership, with Maxwell Goshert, Stephanie Gerhart, Sasha Thomas, Mohamed Abouelenin, Maria Missiego, Armando Montero, Freddy Soto, and Ashlyn Smith.
2021 Policy Design for Arizona as an Antifragile State. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Goshert, Maxwell; Murphy, Janica; Payne, Cooper; Frommer, Stephanie; Whitman, Kyle.
2020 School Enrollment Demographic Forecasting. Report prepared for the Arizona School Facilities Board on behalf of the Arizona Department of Administration, with Maxwell Goshert.
2020 National Scale Innovations in Higher Education: Arizona State University. Report prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with Nate Johnson, Sean Knierim, Jama Adams, Mario Martinez, Molly Ott, David Tinapple, and Matthew Williams.
2018 Regional Innovation Clusters. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Kyle Whitman and Maxwell Goshert.
2018 From Agency to Enterprise: Arizona State University and a New Institutional Paradigm for American Higher Education. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Michael Crow.
2018 National Service Universities: Arizona State University and the Fifth Wave of American Higher Education. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Michael Crow.
2017 The Fifth Wave of American Higher Education: National Service Universities as scalable, complex and adaptive knowledge enterprises. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Michael Crow.
2017 Climate Change and Local Government: Integrating the logic of inquiry with the logic of action. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Drew Callow, Reyna Olvey, Katje Benoit, Vincent Cao, and Katie Cramer.
2015 Quasi-public organizations: An overview of emerging issues and ideas. Office of the President, Arizona State University, with Kevin Todd; Megan Lynn, and Gabel Taggart.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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PAF 340 | Contemporary Policy Challenges |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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PAF 340 | Contemporary Policy Challenges |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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PAF 340 | Contemporary Policy Challenges |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
PAF 547 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HSD 515 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |
SOS 516 | Science, Tech & Public Affairs |