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.
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.
The number of full-tuition scholarships at USC will rise by at least 40 over the next four years, bringing the total number of fully funded USC undergraduates to more than 180 annually, or a record 6 percent of each entering class.
USC has announced an expansion of cancer care facilities made possible by a $15 million donation from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation. The gift will support construction on the USC Health Sciences campus of a new outpatient clinic building that will be named the Norris Healthcare Consultation Center.
USC law school alumni (1946) Judge James Reese has donated $100,000 to create a literacy program targeted at young urban boys from neighborhoods near campus. The program will provide tutors, mentors and intervention.