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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

Two prestigious honors given to USC Davis’ Kelvin J. A. Davies

Professor Kelvin J. A. Davies received the Denham Harman Award for Lifetime Achievement in Research from the American Aging Association, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland.

USC Viterbi Professors receive DARPA grant to solve dispersed computing

USC Professors Salman Avestimehr, Murali Annavaram, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari were recently awarded a $4.2 million contract from DARPA under its new Dispersed Computing program. They are creating a USC-centered testbed to mimic the poor connectivity regions, large data set generation and complex algorithmic execution on small computer devices.

USC Architecture’s Kyle Konis awarded the 2016 Upjohn Award by AIA

Assistant Professor Kyle Konis was recently granted a 2016 Upjohn Award by the American Institute of Architects Upjohn Research Initiative, a grant program that supports applied research that advances design and professional practice.

Sharif Farrag awarded Yale Summer School for the Arts Fellowship

USC Roski student Sharif Farrag has been awarded the prestigious Yale Summer School for the Arts fellowship in Norfolk, CT. Sharif is a current junior at Roski whose emphasis is sculpture.
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Update as of July 19, 2017

July 19th, 2017

This university is a great institution and it is great in part because of its core values. I assure you that we strive to live up to those values every day. Read More »

Memo: Travel Restriction Update

June 26th, 2017

Memorandum to USC Faculty, Staff, and Students June 26, 2017 I write to update you on Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion based on the Administration’s… Read more » Read More »

Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention

May 2nd, 2017

The University of Southern California wants to better prepare for – and try to prevent – any future tragedies, by promoting a more mindful, compassionate, and healthy campus. We believe that organizing these efforts under one office will provide a more coordinated and comprehensive approach to ensuring the health and safety of our entire university community. Read More »

White House Travel Ban

February 16th, 2017

As a result of the White House executive order of January 27, 2017, members of the USC community may be directly effected and concerned about the repercussions of this order, both in terms of ability to travel for scholarly and academic collaboration, and its larger impact on the community climate. 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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