Critical thinking proves essential
The link between the concept of behavioral economics and college students is critical thinking, the ability to gather relevant information from different fields of study to help us make a rational decision. While most universities include critical thinking in their mission statements, it is essential for USC to provide more opportunities for students to improve [...]
Read the rest of this article »More students moving home after college
A Pew study reports 60 percent of young adults know friends moving home after college.
Read the rest of this article »Don’t call yourself broke so flippantly
College students face many struggles. Deadlines, essays and exams can really weigh a person down. But I can’t understand students who complain about not having money. Finding an impoverished student in any USC classroom is difficult. Maybe it’s the flood of illuminated Apple symbols emanating from the $1200 laptops, or maybe the rows of $200 [...]
Read the rest of this article »Consult neighbors before partying
Polite, respectful collaboration with neighbors will allow students to host late-night parties without reflecting badly on the university.
Read the rest of this article »Coursekit should replace Blackboard
Our social generation needs a service that allows for collaboration and multimedia usage — a service we intuitively know how to use.
Read the rest of this article »More students use internet to find jobs
A study found that almost 28 percent of college students plan to use LinkedIn for networking.
Read the rest of this article »Study finds damaging effects of pollution
A study conducted by USC Professor and senior author Caleb Finch found that freeway pollution resulted in significant neuron damage for mice. This was the first study to explore the physical effect of freeway pollution on brain cells. In the study mice were exposed to a synthetic combination of floating freeway matter. The mice were [...]
Read the rest of this article »Students need basic financial education
Financial literacy is an often overlooked field of study that should be widely available to students.
Read the rest of this article »Students can receive up to $10,000 in tax credits
The American Opportunity Tax Credit aims to make college financially attainable.
Read the rest of this article »Students traveling abroad can keep glass half full
Students have power to take precautions against increased alcohol consumption abroad.
Read the rest of this article »A new type of undergraduate experience will be added to the university as music icons ...
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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