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The School of Social Transformation(SST), an innovative, interdisciplinary unit that places just solutions to societal challenges at the center of its scholarship and teaching. SST champions ASU’s vision of the New American University, measuring itself “not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how well they succeed.” SST faculty represent humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields (including creative arts), and they are distinguished nationally and internationally for their scholarship. The faculty seek to think and to train students to think in more complex ways about race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, social and economic justice, immigration status, and labor; to be accountable to the communities with which they engage; and to foreground social transformation on local, national, and global levels. The school’s location in Arizona, where demographic changes and social issues reflect the challenges taking place nationally, especially highlights the relevance of the school’s mission.