Dear Faculty and Staff, I am writing to provide an update on our financial resilience efforts. Over the last several months, our university has undertaken an extraordinary effort to strengthen its financial foundation and prepare for uncertainties facing all of higher education. While this effort has been necessary to protect the university’s core academic mission…
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Dear Faculty and Staff, One of my highest priorities is ensuring that USC has the strong financial foundation needed to continue delivering on our mission of academic excellence into the future. Today I’m writing to explain some difficult actions that need to be taken to address USC’s structural deficit in our volatile external environment. Although…
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to update you on the steps that USC is taking to protect our financial sustainability and academic mission. We know that the last several weeks have been stressful for many of you. We have been working diligently to evaluate the evolving landscape and how to safeguard our mission of research, education,…
Dear Trojan community, We write to provide details about our university’s budget and our plans for sustainable excellence in the face of rapidly rising costs of higher education. Like universities across the country, USC needs to adjust to this changing reality. To excel, we need durable budgets that not only cover today’s costs but also provide resources to seize promising opportunities. Background and Current State Last…