Essential to any top-tier university’s success is a positive public image. And essential to any positive public image is philanthropy, outreach and public service. USC accomplishes all three of these through its Good Neighbors Campaign. The fundraiser, held annually each October, supports university-community partnerships such as Troy Camp and the Community Health Fair. This year’s [...]
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USC ramped up its programs with local schools after the 1992 riots, JEP’s director says.
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EdMonth kicks off with a panel of educational leaders Monday in Bovard Auditorium.
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St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church was gift from USC donor Edward L. Doheny.
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JEP is creating and continuing programs and renovating its house as it celebrates 40 years of service.
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The increase in international students is attributed to the strong Trojan network, students say.
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Students from Vermont Elementary, part of USC’s Joint Educational Project Young Scientist Program, paint a recycling-themed mural with aid from the MobileMural Lab, as part of a studio started by Nadine Afari, head of YSP, keying a recycling awareness push.
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As students at a leading private research university in California, we have a duty to more than simply notice the escalating gap between the rich and the poor in the United States and abroad. Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in poverty said to USA Today, “More than other countries, [America] has [...]
Read the rest of this article »Religious Center, JEP executive director to hold talk with students tonight
Thinking about the future and what lies ahead can often be a rather daunting activity. Hearing the stories of others and how their lives came together can help relieve some of that normal anxiety that we all feel. Today at the University Religious Center, students will be given the chance to listen to USC faculty [...]
Read the rest of this article »This house can learn, too Service learning is the foundation that the Joint Educational Project House is built on. To say that extra credit is “handed out” to volunteers would be a severe understatement. JEP volunteers must earn whatever credit they receive, and the tasks JEP volunteers undertake vary based on which courses they participate [...]
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Video from the scene, courtesy of USC Black Student Assembly. Students, alumni, faculty and community members ...
[gallery link="file" ids="67092,67091,67090,67089,67088,67087,67086,67085,67084"] Photos by Razan Al Marzouqi More than 100 students gathered in front of Tommy ...
With a runoff election almost two weeks away, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy ...
Architect and USC alumnus Anthony Marnell, '72, donated $1 million to the School of Architecture ...
UPDATE: Photos from the scene, courtesy of USC student Christopher James. Multiple USC students were detained ...
On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...
The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...
A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...
A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...
The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights.  One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...
Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...
As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...
For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...
When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...
Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe.  Set in New York ...
Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...
Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...
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The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...
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