When Ray Anderson took his post in 2014, ASU president Michael Crow bestowed an additional title on his new Vice President for University Athletics.
"Dr. Crow insisted that he appoint me as a professor of practice at the law school given the fact that I'm a lawyer and have been a lot of places where I used my legal skills," Anderson said. "One of his philosophies is that all the deans and all the vice presidents and including the president himself be teachers, educators, so there is a requirement culturally to get in the classroom whenever you can to actually teach and touch our student-athletes in the learning environment.