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  • Campus Climate Momentum Continues

    The Academic Senate will continue to build upon the momentum created last year around Campus Climate. Last year the Academic Senate passed a resolution outlining foundational changes that were needed to improve campus climate at USC.  The focus of the resolution was on access, equity, and inclusion.  As a result of that resolution, as well…

  • Crisis Prevention: When Students Need Help

    Another session at the retreat focused on Crisis Prevention for students presented by Professor Rene Rosenstein, Director of Student Counseling Services and Lynette Merriman, EdD, Assistant Provost for Student Affairs, Support and Advocacy provided guidance and information about USC’s team approach to campus interventions. They provided clear action plans if you have concerns that a…

  • Campus Safety: It couldn’t happen here!

    (photo credit) But it happened at UCLA………. At 9:38 am on June, 1, 2016 the UCLA Police Department received a 911 call.  Shots were fired at the Engineering Building 4. There was an active shooter or shooters on campus. A wave of phone calls inundated the UCLA dispatch center, 788 in just over 2 hours.…

  • Interdisciplinary Communities Across Schools

    Interdisciplinary communities are the lifeblood of any great research university.  They give birth to new spheres of intellectual life, inspiring and enabling new directions of creativity and research while opening up new worlds of study for students. In the process they can help faculty and students reach their goals and potential while providing significant new…

  • President’s Blog, July 2016

    In July we transition to a new Executive Board of the Academic Senate. So first, a big thank you to the outgoing Board and President Ginger Clark for all their work last year. I appreciate that we make this transition in the down-time of summer – the softest of soft starts. As President, it’s my first…

  • Joint Provost-Senate Retreat 2015-2016

    The Joint Provost-Senate Retreat was held in February 2016 at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

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