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Born: July 30, 1937, in Memphis, Tenn. He grew up along the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Ill. His father was born in McGill. Family: Milton Glick and his wife, Peggy, have been married 40 years. She works at Arizona State University, training future high school math teachers. They have two sons - David, a senior manager with Amazon.com, and Sander, a postal consultant.

Current position: Executive vice president and provost, Arizona State University

Job duties: As the second-ranking administrator at Arizona State University, Glick oversees academics and operations on all four of ASU's campuses. ASU, with a budget of $600 million, serves 47,000 students.

During his 15-year tenure at ASU:

Previous experience:

Education: Postdoctoral fellow in structural chemistry, Cornell University

PhD in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin, Madison

Favorite books on leadership: University of Southern California President Steve Sample's "The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership;" Jim Collins' "Good to Great;" Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma."

Favorite saying: "Power is one of the few things that the more you give away, the more you have, if you define power as the ability to make good things happen. That's kind of my view of the world, that you increase your ability to get things done by engaging others in doing it."

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