Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the University of Southern California athletics scandal, the University of Southern California (USC) was investigated and punished for NCAA rules violations in the Trojan football, men's basketball and women's tennis programs. The sanctions were announced on June 10, 2010, and affected the USC football program from 2010 to 2012.
In 2019, a scandal arose over a criminal conspiracy to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top American universities. The investigation into the conspiracy was code named Operation Varsity Blues. [1] [2] The investigation and related charges were made public on March 12, 2019, by United States federal prosecutors.
Founding and early years The Widney Alumni House, the campus's first building. The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several key figures in early Los Angeles history—a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs; an Irish Catholic former governor, John Gately Downey; and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W ...
Doctoral advisor. Charles R. Goldman. Carol Lynn Folt (born 1951) is an American academic administrator who is the 12th president of the University of Southern California. She is also the first female president in the university’s 142-year history. [6] She assumed her duties on July 1, 2019. [7]
64 demonstrators have been arrested at the University of California, San Diego as police cleared out a protest encampment. Of those arrested, 24 people were reportedly not affiliated with the ...
C. L. Max Nikias. Chrysostomos Loizos "Max" Nikias ( Greek: Χρυσόστομος Λοΐζος Νικίας; born September 30, 1952) is a Cypriot-American academic, and served as the 11th University of Southern California president, a position he held from August 3, 2010, [1] to August 7, 2018. [2] He holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in ...
University of Southern California. / 34.0206; -118.2848. The University of Southern California ( USC, SC, Southern Cal [a] or SoCal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880 by Robert Maclay Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California.
USC Trojanswomen's soccer. The USC Trojans women's is a US soccer team that represent the University of Southern California in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's soccer. The team competes in the Pac-12 Conference. The Trojans won national championships in 2007 and 2016.