2016: USC alumni Oscar De Los Santos '15 and Jung Kian Ng B.S., M.S.2017: The Campaign for USC reached its $6 billion goal 18 months earlier than anticipated, securing its place among the most successful campaigns in higher education. The university extends its fundraising through 2021 to support high ambitions and access for students.The study found that USC spurs $8 billion annually in economic activity in the Los Angeles region and California. 2017: An independent economic impact study on USC showed that the university is one of California’s strongest economic engines.2017: USC researchers provide key analysis of the data gathered annually by the county and city of Los Angeles, as part of the university’s Initiative to Eliminate Homelessness.2017: USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences professor Viet Thanh Nguyen receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.2018: The USC Marshall of School of Business announces that more than 50 percent of its full-time MBA Class of 2020 are women - this gender parity is a first for top-tier U.S.The 40,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility includes a dedicated “incubator” space for Trojan alumni. 2019: USC’s newest academic building, Iovine and Young Hall, officially opens.The gift would be used to bolster research and studies in areas including artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, and environmental sustainability The foundation is expected to distribute proceeds to USC in 2020, making it USC’s largest-ever gift from a named donor. 2019: The Lord Foundation of California, which supports faculty research and teaching at USC, receives $260 million from the sale of LORD Corp.Folt announced a major financial aid expansion to benefit low- and middle-income families, extending USC’s long-time commitment to need-based funding by pledging more than $30 million in additional aid annually to expand the current pool. 2020: USC shifted all its classes online in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic - a monumental behind-the-scenes effort taken up by teaching experts, administrators and information technology specialists to make the transition as smooth as possible.The new leadership role will build a framework that reinforces USC’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging and to address ongoing challenges of discrimination and bias. 2021: USC hires Christopher Manning as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer.They bring home 21 medals, and the golden streak continues: USC has won a gold medal in every Summer Olympics since 1912. 2021: A record 65 USC-affiliated athletes compete at the Tokyo Olympics.2021: The Presidential Medallion, the university’s top honor, was awarded to all of USC’s staff, faculty and health care professionals in recognition of their extraordinary work during the COVID-19 pandemic.It’s the university’s third victory in the league wide competition focused on diverting the waste generated at home football games from landfills to recycling or composting. 2021: USC wins the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2021 football season.Folt announces that USC will be carbon-neutral by 2025. Tradition of Support for the Armed Forces.Past Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients.Today, USC is home to more than 48,000 students and over 4,400 full-time faculty, and is located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world. When USC first opened its doors to 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880, the “city” still lacked paved streets, electric lights, telephones and a reliable fire alarm system. The gift provided land for a campus as well as a source of endowment, the seeds of financial support for the nascent institution. Hellman, a German-Jewish banker and philanthropist. Downey, an Irish-Catholic pharmacist and businessman and Isaias W. Childs, a Protestant horticulturist former California governor John G. It took nearly a decade for this vision to become a reality, but in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community – Ozro W. Los Angeles was a rough-and-tumble frontier town in the early 1870s, when a group of public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney first dreamed of establishing a university in the region.
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