Fas Regna Trojae: The Campaign for the University of Southern California is a multi-year effort to advance USC's academic priorities and expand the university's positive impact on the community and world. This campaign is the largest and most important in USC’s history—one that will touch and transform every aspect of the university. Achieving our ambitious goals will require unprecedented support from donors at all levels throughout the entire Trojan Family. More about the Campaign »
Throughout the past two decades, the caliber of USC’s undergraduate student body has increased exponentially, fueling our skyrocketing prestige and reputation. One factor helping to propel this remarkable trajectory has been our commitment to meet 100 percent of undergraduate students’ financial need through scholarships and other types of financial aid.
A top priority for USC is to increase the number of exceptional faculty and ensure that current stellar faculty thrive in their teaching, research, and creative work. Like the catalyst in a chain reaction, USC faculty set off a cascade of effects that determine the quality of their departments, their schools or college, their students, and ultimately, their university.
While the main thrust of the Campaign is for people and programs, vital funds are also needed to provide the facilities and infrastructure necessary to support them on both our University Park campus and Health Sciences campus.
USC has a rich history of developing leading-edge technologies, nurturing emerging art forms, and overcoming insurmountable odds in its pursuit of academic innovation, whether that means establishing the first cinema school in the United States in 1930, or, more recently, merging engineering and medicine to facilitate cross-disciplinary research.
A bequest from the Pullias Family estate has established the newly named Earl and Pauline Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education. The center previously was known as the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis. The gift allows one of the world’s leading research centers on higher education to continue its tradition of focusing on research, policy and practice to improve the field.
USC President C.L. Max Nikias announced an anonymous gift of $13.3 million at a special meeting hosted by the University of Southern California Institute of Urology on February 7. The donation will fund the USC Urology Robotics Center of Excellence and the Program for Prostate Cancer Targeting. “Today the USC Institute of Urology is an internationally renowned powerhouse in robotic and open surgery. Tomorrow we look forward to being a cutting-edge comprehensive world leader in urology,” said Nikias.
Confetti shot through the air, the Spirit of Troy played the USC fight song and faculty, staff, students, alumni and university officials lifted two fingers in a victory salute on Feb. 7 as the university celebrated the newly named USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
USC trustee Verna B. Dauterive ME ’49, EdD ’66 has committed her $30 million gift to name the first interdisciplinary social sciences building on the USC campus. Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall will serve as a center for research and teaching for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and for USC’s professional schools.
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Amid Trojan fanfare, USC faculty, staff and friends gathered on the university’s Health Sciences campus on Jan. 30 to celebrate the W. M. Keck Foundation’s recent, transformative naming gift. The $150 million donation serves as the lead gift for the Keck Medicine Initiative, which was announced by USC president C. L. Max Nikias at the gathering on the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad.
SC trustee Ronald D. Sugar and his wife, Valerie Sugar MS ’72, have endowed the Valerie and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries. The $5 million gift is the first to support a named chair in the libraries and the largest to endow a dean’s chair in the history of USC.