Academic Senate
News and Updates
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Report Available: Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence, 2018-2019
The joint Provost/Senate Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence created a year-end report, and you can read it here: Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence Final Report 2018-2019
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Report Available: Task Force on Research Track Faculty, 2018-2019
The joint Provost/Senate Task Force on Research Track faculty created a year-end report, and you can read it here: Research Faculty Task Force Final Report 2018-2019