Entrepreneurs pitch ideas at conference
Students had the opportunity to share their business plans for new start-up companies.
Wellness Affairs plans new services
The committee is reaching out to medically trained students to create a transport program.
Hearing focuses on Jefferson Boulevard transformation
Community members spoke about the university’s urban design plans for the area.
Demographics by the numbers
The Demographics of the University of Southern California
Fall 2013 Supplement The neighborhoods within Demographics by the numbers Middle Eastern students face differences Transfers often feel shortchanged Program gets WiSE about gender USC values legacies but avoids nepotism USG aims to increase diversity USC lauded for LGBT resources Foreign athletes face unique challenges Also in the series Latino students reflect on their complex […]
Foreign athletes face unique challenges
With college sports becoming a booming business in the United States, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the players who are often viewed as celebrities or “big men on campus” are, for the most part, no different from any other college student. Though most student-athletes are recognized primarily for their athletic endeavors, all of them […]
USC lauded for LGBT resources
Earlier this semester, USC was named one of Campus Pride’s Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Colleges and Universities, an accolade the LGBT Resource Center received for the first time in 2006, just one year after becoming an official university department under Student Affairs. Campus Pride is an organization dedicated to advocating for a safe environment for lesbian, […]
USG aims to increase diversity
Of the last five Undergraduate Student Government presidents, three have been members of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In addition, four of the past five winning president and vice presidential tickets have included one member from Sigma Chi. The fraternity is one of 23 active houses in USC’s Interfraternity Council. And though other IFC fraternities have […]
USC values legacies but avoids nepotism
Elizabeth Eddy, a senior majoring in business administration, belongs to a family that has attended USC for four generations. Eddy is the 18th member of her family to attend the university. And now that her brother and cousin also currently attend USC, the Eddy family has had 20 members of their family attend the university. […]
Program gets WiSE about gender
At a university so evenly balanced between male and female students, it might seem easy to assume that the same is true for other groups on campus. Among faculty, however, gender is not always as equally represented. The discrepancies between men and women in the science, technology and engineering fields have been widely acknowledged on […]