Nancy Gonzales, ASU’s executive vice president and university provost, says the recent U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the leading college graduate degree programs show the broad scope of academic excellence to be found at ASU’s various schools and colleges. The Fulton Schools reflect that trend. Graduate education fine-tunes the skills needed by business executives, policy makers, legal professionals, educators and engineers, Gonzales says. Among the ASU graduate programs that placed in the top 20 in the nation in these latest rankings are the Fulton Schools’ environmental engineering program and the industrial/manufacturing systems program.