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Providing academic leadership to USC

Provost Michael Quick

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Quick discusses the academic priorities for the university.

The USC Office of the Provost provides oversight, coordination, budgeting, and review of USC’s 19 academic units and initiatives. This includes the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the professional schools, educational policies, deans and faculty, research and grants, and strategic planning. In keeping with the university mission, Provost Michael Quick maintains an academic community of broad disciplines that fosters intellectual inquiry, reflection, and innovation.
At USC, we provide our students with rigorous and exciting academic programs, access to the world’s best faculty and the chance to work across disciplines in an inclusive and intellectual environment. It is our privilege and our responsibility to educate leaders who will tackle society’s most intractable problems and who will change the world.

Provost Michael Quick

Supporting Our Community

We are a vibrant, diverse, intellectual community of students, faculty and staff. We have myriad ways to support our community and we continuously work to ensure a safe, productive atmosphere for all Trojans -- regardless of national origin or religious affiliation.

Scholar News

USC’s Mark Humayun recognized for cutting-edge research in biomedical engineering

IEEE has recognized USC’s Mark Humayun as being at the forefront of cutting-edge research in the field of biomedical engineering

USC students on a Maymester course trace the history of Argentina’s geologic landscapes

Students on a Maymester course travel to Argentina to undertake hands-on geological fieldwork, studying the 470 million-year-old Famatinian Arc and learning to work as an international research team.

Change that begins with art: SDA keys in on commitment to Theatre and Social Change

What might sound like an unrelated string of events are, in fact, all examples of the School of Dramatic Arts’ newly robust commitment to Theatre and Social Change. That’s the new title for the School’s minor program for undergraduates, and the name of an institute about to launch. More than that — it’s the name of a movement.

USC Price grad finds inspiration at aging conference, develops community service worker program

Four years ago, Jamiko Bell DPPD ’17 was a doctoral student in the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Doctor of Policy, Planning, and Development program who was still searching for an ideal topic for her dissertation. For her dissertation, Bell developed a pilot community service worker program for Riverside County that would train and employ older adults to work on the front lines of social service delivery and assist professionals with programs and services that need additional support.
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Amicus Brief in support of scholars of all national origins

September 19th, 2017

USC joined 30 other colleges and universities to encourage the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the federal travel ban affecting international students, faculty and staff from six countries. The institutions argued that the international populations are vital to the culture and community on campuses across the United States. From the amicus brief: Read More »

Recognizing Teaching Faculty

September 15th, 2017

USC’s mission statement recognizes that our first priority is the education of our students.  Every school and department should be working to improve the rigorous… Read more » Read More »

Update on Title IX

September 8th, 2017

September 8, 2017 To the USC Community: In light of recent news about suggested revisions to federal guidance under Title IX, I want to reassure… Read more » Read More »

USC International Artist Fellowship Program (IAF)

September 6th, 2017

The USC Strategic Vision: Matching Deeds to Ambitions highlights the special prominence of the arts at our university, with six world-class arts schools, two museums… Read more » Read More »
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3551 Trousdale Parkway, Suite 102
Los Angeles CA 90089-4019
(213) 740-2101
uscprovost@usc.edu

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