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  1. Shaun Harper
    Faculty News

    USC Race and Equity Center seeks to ‘illuminate, disrupt and dismantle’ racism

    Led by Shaun Harper, the USC Race and Equity Center is teaching business leaders, educators and administrators how to better serve their communities with evidence-based strategies to advance equity.

    Featured Faculty

  2. Lead pic for Social Emotional Learning feature
    Faculty News

    Social-Emotional Learning gets its moment in the spotlight

    The work of º£½ÇÂÛ̳’s Mary Helen Immordino-Yang shows how schools can embrace SEL, a new interdisciplinary science of development, culture and neuroscience.

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  3. An illustration of a group of faculty gesture toward an open door.
    Research

    º£½ÇÂÛ̳ aims to diversify pipeline of future educators

    How faculty are leading the way to bring equity-minded change to graduate education.

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  4. Portrait of Michele Turner, head of USC's Office of Business Diversity and Economic Opportunity.
    Alumni Story

    Building the foundation for economic opportunity

    Michèle G. Turner BS ’81, EdD ’14 is blazing a path forward for diverse contracting at USC.

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  5. The inaugural class of º£½ÇÂÛ̳’s new Teacher Preparation Residency program in front of the Traveler statue at USC’s University Park Campus. Back row, left to right: Elijah Chesley BA ’21 and Joseph Arechiga; front row, left to right: Ramiro Alexander-Duchesne BA ’ 17, Jamie Roman Nunez, Lauryn Merriweather and Derringer Dillingham
    Education News

    The future teachers of Los Angeles

    Meet the first class of º£½ÇÂÛ̳’s new Teacher Preparation Residency program.

  6. An apple balances on the edge of a wooden desk.
    Education News

    Turning around the teacher crisis

    As teacher shortages trouble the nation, º£½ÇÂÛ̳’s new teaching residency program aims to prepare educators for the challenges of L.A. classrooms and create a more diverse workforce.

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  7. Sylinda (left) and Aja (right) participate in a yoga class during after-school programming at the Crenshaw Family YMCA.
    Student Story

    With Veda Ramsay-Stamps MPA ’18 at the helm, the Crenshaw Family YMCA has become an essential community hub

    After a career in public policy took this Global EdD student from Washington, D.C., to Fresno, Calif., Ramsay-Stamps found her way back to the heart of L.A.

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  8. (Illustration/Sonia Pullido)
    Alumni Story

    A day in the life of a º£½ÇÂÛ̳ grad

    Alumni leaders share the details of their waking hours—from their morning routines to the ways they wind down from their busy working days.

  9. Thomas Tan EdD ’09, Hacienda La Puente Unified School District’s director of and computer services, reviews notes on his office whiteboard in August 2021. (Photo/Rebecca Aranada)
    Alumni Story

    The pandemic changed their jobs overnight. How did education technology leaders manage?

    º£½ÇÂÛ̳ alumni share how they led their districts out of crisis and into a brighter, more plugged-in future.

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  10. (Illustration/Chris Gash)
    Education News

    What does leadership look like after the pandemic?

    Kindness, creativity and relationship building are among the essential skills education leaders need to break through the challenges of today.

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