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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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Arieh 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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Courage in Journalism Comes to Campus

Three winners of the Courage in Journalism Awards, who spoke on campus this week, were inspiring, brave, and taught us all the importance of bearing witness across the world.
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Where Ideas are Contested

Great American universities have historically been the places where ideas are contested, debates are encouraged, and free speech is held sacred.
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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

New Opportunity for Vice President for Student Affairs Ainsley Carry

December 4th, 2018

I write to inform you that Ainsley Carry, vice president for student affairs, has accepted a new position as vice president for students at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His appointment begins April 1, 2019.
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Unexpected Monday Evening Football Game at the Coliseum

November 13th, 2018

We have just learned that the L.A. Rams will host the Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Monday, November 19 at 5:00 p.m. This is a last-minute change from the league’s previous plans and we are contractually obligated to accommodate this need.
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Support in the Wake of Another Mass Shooting

November 8th, 2018

It is with a very heavy heart that I write to you yet again in the wake of another mass shooting. On behalf of our entire university, I offer my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill.
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Fostering Our Diverse Community

November 1st, 2018

Among the most important challenges facing higher education is addressing historic, systemic inequities as we work to build more diverse and inclusive university communities.
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