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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 Arts in Action Inspires Positive Social Change

Arts in Action is first and foremost a community effort.
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Launch of New Website Designed as USC’s First Centralized Online Platform for Veterans

This will be the go to place for all things veteran related.
Provost & Hernandez Family

NAI Program Serves as a Model for Higher Education Institutions Across the Nation

The USC McMorrow NAI program offers students in East and South Los Angeles the opportunity and access to higher education.
Former USC Faculty members

A New Hall Opens to Honor Our Phenomenal Faculty

Video displays and stationary exhibits will highlight our faculty members’ legendary leadership in science, civil rights, and innovation. 
Raymond Stevens

Exceptional Mentoring is Key to Building a Supportive Academic Environment

This investment and guidance is central to USC’s legacy and future.
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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

Update on Union Efforts at USC Roski School of Art and Design

June 19th, 2019

I am writing to give you an update on the efforts by Service Employees International Union Local 721 to unionize our teaching-track faculty in the Roski School of Art and Design.
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Letter To Incoming Students

June 13th, 2019

I want you to know about a new course we are offering this Fall called THRIVE: Foundations of Well-being (OT 100).
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Introducing Geoffrey Garrett as Dean of the USC Marshall School of Business

June 11th, 2019

On behalf of President Wanda Austin and President-elect Carol L. Folt, I am extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Geoffrey Garrett will serve as the next dean of the USC Marshall School of Business.
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New Interim Dean for the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

June 7th, 2019

On behalf of President Wanda Austin and President-elect Carol Folt, I am pleased to announce that Suzanne Wenzel has agreed to serve as Interim Dean of the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, effective July 1, 2019.
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Los Angeles CA 90089-4019
(213) 740-2101
uscprovost@usc.edu

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