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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.

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USC trustee Wanda Austin and Dornsife professor Viet Thanh Nguyen (USC photo/Steve Cohn)

Congratulations to honorees at the 2018 Academic Honors Convocation

USC trustee Wanda Austin and Dornsife professor Viet Thanh Nguyen were awarded USC’s highest honor, the Presidential Medallion.
L-R: President Nikias, Steve Braverman, David Bridel, Michael Quick

Congratulations to David Bridel

School of Dramatic Arts Dean David Bridel is the inaugural holder of the Braverman Family Dean’s Chair.

The Pop-Up DREAM Center has launched

This April marked the soft launch of our Pop-Up DREAM Center, a resource center for USC’s undocumented and DACAmented students, staff, faculty, and others.

Spring Semester Stress — and Help

Spring semester can be a stressful time as the academic year draws to a close.

Congratulations to our new Distinguished and University Professors

The new group of Distinguished Professors are: Paula Cannon, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Elyn Saks; and the University Professors are Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jacob Soll.
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The 2018 USC Strategic Plan – Answering the Call

We have created a vision for the university that builds on our past to lead us forward. It calls on all of us to action, to lead our fine university with deep values, excellent teachers and researchers and mentors, strong impact in our community and in the world, and a commitment to transformation.
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.

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2018 Faculty Handbook

June 14th, 2018

We’re writing you about the update of Faculty Handbook policies that the Academic Senate worked with the Office of the Provost to develop during the Spring semester.
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Transitions at USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

June 12th, 2018

I am pleased to announce that Marilyn L. Flynn, who has served USC for 21 years as dean of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, has accepted the role of Special Advisor in the Office of the Provost, effective July 1, 2018.
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Reappointment of Avishai Sadan as Dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC

May 31st, 2018

I am pleased to inform you that President Nikias has offered Dean Avishai Sadan another five-year term as dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, and that Dean Sadan has accepted this offer.
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Transitions at the USC Neuroscience Graduate Program

May 31st, 2018

Dr. Pat Levitt has shared with us his decision to step down as director of the USC Neuroscience Graduate Program in order to accept a position with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as inaugural Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, and Director of the Saban Research Institute.
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Los Angeles CA 90089-4019
(213) 740-2101
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