Academic Senate
News and Updates
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2019-2020 Senate Committee Reports
Committees are crucial to the function, reach, and impact of the Academic Senate. Below are links to all of the 2019-2020 Academic Year committee reports that were generated, which represent countless hours and enormous effort by various faculty from across the University. Any Senate committee report will also be listed on the respective committee’s website.… Read…
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2020 Senate Elections: Candidates and Voting
CLICK HERE to view the 2020 Senate Elections page with candidates, bios, full info sheets, and short videos introducing each person! Please contact us at acsenate@usc.edu with any questions.
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Working Together Toward Culture Change
Provost Zukoski kicked off this session, explaining that he believes that USC faces deep cultural challenges, requiring us to re-examine the values and norms that guide our behavior and decisions at every level of the organization. This culture change will be led by the President and Provost, but it also must be driven by faculty,… Read…
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Student Well-being: A Comprehensive Approach to “De-Stressing” Our Students
Professor of Cinematic Arts Anikó Imre introduced this panel by arguing that USC should move beyond crisis management toward repositioning the mental health epidemic as a global, historical and collective symptom of a widely normalized value system that puts competition and performance in the center of social life. While this ethos—which USC’s culture poll identified… Read…
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Executive Board 2018-2019
Yaniv Bar-Cohen President Keck/CHLA Rebecca Lonergan Academic Vice President Gould School Ruben Davila Administrative Vice President Marshall/Leventhal Ashley Uyeshiro Simon Secretary General Dentistry/OT Shafiqa Ahmadi Member-at-LargeRossier Jody Armour Member-at-Large Gould School Sofia Gruskin Member-at-Large Keck/Gould Trisha Tucker Member-at-Large Dornsife College Paul Rosenbloom Immediate Past President of the Faculty… Read…
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Senate Members 2018-2019
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Francois Bar, fbar@usc.edu Laura Castaneda (alternate), lcastane@usc.edu Patricia Riley (alternate), priley@usc.edu Paolo Sigismondi (alternate), sigismon@usc.edu School of Architecture James Steele, jamesmcleodsteele@gmail.com Marshall School of Business Elissa Grossman , elissa.grossman@marshall.usc.edu Gulden Ulkumen (alternate), ulkumen@marshall.usc.edu Daniel O’Leary, oleary@usc.edu School of Cinematic Arts Anikó Imre, aimre@cinema.usc.edu Jeff Watson (alternate), jeff.watson@cinema.usc.edu Glorya Kaufman School of Dance… Read…
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Progress Report Available: Task Force for Shared Governance, 2018-2019
The Senate Task Force for Shared Governance created a progress report at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year, and you can read it here: Progress Report from the Task Force for Shared Governance