May 16, 2024
Dear Faculty,
I write today to offer my gratitude to the members of the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 University Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure (UCAPT) panels. This distinguished group of faculty has provided recommendations to me that are crucial to our university’s commitment to building and sustaining academic excellence.
UCAPT is comprised of eight discipline-based panels, each of which includes interdisciplinary members. This group of your colleagues has devoted a great deal of time to reviewing the approximately 225 dossiers that were considered over the past two years. We rely on their expert analysis and advice to make tenure and promotion decisions that bring honor to the university. I deeply appreciate every member of this group, named individually below, for their dedication and service to the USC:
| Paul Adler | Tracy Fullerton | Natalia Molina |
| Joshua Aizenman | Adam Knight Gilbert | Lydie Moudileno |
| Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati | Shaun Harper | Greta Panova |
| Shahla Bahavar | Andrea Hodge | Manuel Pastor |
| Aimee Bender | Chanita Hughes Halbert | Erika Patall |
| Thomas Buchanan | Yuri Jang | Daniel Pelletier |
| Paula Cannon | Diana Jaque | Oleg Prezhdo |
| Yang Chai | Henry Jenkins | Rodney Ramcharan |
| Meiling Cheng | Kristian Jessen | Nandini Rajagopalan |
| Vadim Cherezov | Amelia Jones | Jay Rubenstein |
| Darnell Cole | Sandra Kaplan | Robert Ryu |
| Midge Costin | Kara Keeling | Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy |
| Gage Crump | Dan Klerman | Uttam Sinha |
| Glenn Dicterow | Jay Kuo | Andrew Smith |
| Jennifer Dien Bard | Robert Labaree | Jacob Soll |
| Moh El-Naggar | Rebecca Lemon | Yan Tang |
| Lee Epstein | Chun Li | Ruth Wallach |
| Percival Everett | Yan Liu | Alan Willner |
| Peggy Farnham | Jinchi Lv | Gabriel Zada |
| Sarah Feakins | Keith Mayerson | Berislav Zlokovic |
| Kate Flint | Andrew McMahon | |
| Susan Forsburg | Danielle Mihram |
Sincerely,
Andrew T. Guzman
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs