William and Leslie McMorrow’s donation endows the Neighborhood Academic Initiative, ensuring ongoing support for future generations of promising students in South and East Los Angeles.
The university president makes a surprise visit to students and families participating in the Neighborhood Academic Initiative, which helps children who live near USC get ready for college.
Ximena Salas’ clothing company Mis Raíces is making a statement in the Latino community — just like its founder, who one day hopes to be a Trojan.
Joining in the festivities is actor Mark Hamill, a longtime supporter of the intense college-prep program that helps students living near the USC campuses.
University honors staff, faculty who donate 1 percent of their salary to program that helps the neighborhoods around the school’s campuses.
The most-represented high school is Foshay Learning Center, a public school less than a mile from the USC University Park Campus.
She’s a graduate of the university’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative, a rigorous program that helps prepare local kids for college — and rewards them with a USC education when they succeed.
Student diversity rates are strong in many categories, including several in which the university is No. 1 among private U.S. institutions; ‘PhD pipeline’ is focus of faculty efforts.
Hundreds of future leaders have completed the program, which provides intense academic support to dedicated youngsters.
C. L. Max Nikias is recognized for encouraging students to be philanthropic, globally minded and informed of the issues that affect children. David Beckham is also honored.
An annual gala toasts the Trojans who donated 1 percent of their salaries to the Good Neighbors Campaign, which aids neighborhoods surrounding the USC campuses.
Commencement comes full circle for a South LA student who once wore a childhood shirt reading ‘I’m going to college at USC.’
Another 61 high-school graduates will continue their education this fall, thanks to groundbreaking USC program.
The Joan A. Payden Student Academy will boost the education of children in neighborhoods near the university’s campuses.
Sixty-five scholars from South LA complete the intensive program, and all are going on to college.
USC is one of the most successful at graduating Latino students, according to an analysis by the Education Trust.
A new book by USC Dornsife’s Elaine Bell Kaplan uses inner-city children’s photographs of their environments to confront powerful issues of class, race and identity.
USC’s signature college access program, Neighborhood Academic Initiative expands its reach to the schools of East Los Angeles.
Graduation from the Neighborhood Academic Initiative represents a seven-year journey of perseverance.
The USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative will expand beyond South Los Angeles to include more than 100 sixth-graders near the university’s Health Sciences Campus in East Los Angeles.
Ninth-grade math students who are part of USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative toured the Solar Decathlon home under construction on the University Park campus.
It was less than a year ago when first-grader Sebastian Vega-Chacon was having behavioral issues that nearly led to his suspension at school.