Henderson’s membership in the ASU System would provide multiple benefits to our employees, students, communities, and the entire state. Program collaboration, student transfer relationships, purchasing collaboration, and multiple cost efficiencies would all be significant benefits to ASU System campuses. Additional system campuses also allow for greater leverage in negotiating contracts and employee benefits programs. Our ability to affect public policy would be significantly increased by having an institution such as Henderson as a member of the ASU System. Henderson also has multiple high-profile and widely recognized academic programs that would complement current ASU System offerings.
Henderson would retain its independent accreditation and independent appropriation just like the other campuses in our system. Any existing debt or obligations of the university would remain with Henderson and would not be applied to any other campus. There would be no transfer of funds from the ASU System, or any of our member campuses, to Henderson.