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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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The Trojan Band performs at the celebration

The Price School celebrates its 90th anniversary

I was pleased to join in the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Provost Quick with Vijay Pendakur, Dean of Students at Cornell University

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week Kicks Off

Our third annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week is headed by Vice Provost Camille Gear Rich and Diversity Council co-Chair Renee Smith-Maddox.
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf presenting the Nobel to Warshel

Fifth anniversary of Arieh Warshel’s Nobel Prize

On December 10, 2013, Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the Nobel to Warshel and his two colleagues, Michael Levitt of Stanford University and Martin Karplus of the Université de Strasbourg in France and Harvard University, for their groundbreaking development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
32nd Street Elementary School student exercising

Kaufman Connections brings dance to 32nd Street Elementary

This year, the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance launched Kaufman Connections, a new initiative for community engagement. Its first effort is a dance partnership led by our Kaufman BFA students, who bring weekly hip-hop workshops to students at 32nd Street Elementary.
Valter Longo

Ensuring Lifespan Health

At USC, and with our partners across the country and world, we don’t just want to extend life, we want to extend life well.
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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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Announcements

Provost Task Force on University Nomenclature

February 11th, 2019

I am assembling the Provost Task Force on University Nomenclature to help us establish principles and procedures on reassessing names across campus.
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USC Office of the Ombuds

January 29th, 2019

We are pleased to announce that we have launched the new USC Office of the Ombuds to provide independent, confidential, and impartial support for our university community.
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Appointment of New Distinguished and University Professors

January 25th, 2019

I am pleased to announce that President Wanda Austin has appointed Kelvin J. A. Davies, Maja J. Matarić, and Manuel Pastor, Jr. as Distinguished Professors and Andrew P. McMahon as University Professor.
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Celebrating a Successful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week

January 25th, 2019

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Renée Smith-Maddox and Camille Gear Rich, USC hosted approximately 100 trainings, workshops, screenings, discussions, performances, and other events, all aimed at helping our community learn how we can better serve our students, and each other.
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