Communities

Working with our neighbors to build a strong community

USC President C. L. Max Nikias, left, greets Earl Paysinger after an LAPD Cadet Leadership Program event at the university in November 2014. (USC Photo/ Gus Ruelas)

Earl C. Paysinger to lead USC Civic Engagement

Earl C. Paysinger has been named vice president of civic engagement for USC University Relations, effective Friday. Paysinger comes to USC with 40 years of experience at the Los Angeles Police Department where he served with distinction, most recently as... Read more

Viterbi Robotics

Future engineers describe various types of robots

The Robotics and Coding Academy is a year-long after-school program at three elementary schools in South Los Angeles The Robotics and Coding Academy is a year-long after-school program at three elementary schools in South Los Angeles sponsored by the USC... Read more

Who are USC’s freshmen? The highest achieving and among the most diverse ever enrolled

The most-represented high school is Foshay Learning Center, a public school less than a mile from the USC University Park Campus

“Preparing for the Biotech Decade”

Join us at the free, half-day, educational and workforce development event on Saturday, October 1. At East LA Community College.

Student-run camp helps kids escape parent’s cancer, if only for a week

The free camp is in its fourth year. USC students are the organizers, the counselors and even the fundraisers.

Freshman Sydney Turner has been preparing for USC since the sixth grade

She’s a graduate of the university’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative.