The band has also, for many years, performed the 1812 Overture with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (or occasionally with other orchestras) each year at the Hollywood Bowl "Tchaikovsky Spectacular". ===Spirit groups=== ==== Song Girls ==== For over 45 years, the USC Song Girls have been considered the "Crown Jewels of USC Spirit".
Founded in 1880 by Robert M.
The university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952. When USC opened in 1880, tuition was $15.00 per term, and students were not allowed to leave town without the knowledge and consent of the university president.
Widney Alumni House, built-in 1880, is the oldest university building in Southern California.
The college is named after Emma Bovard, who was one of the first students to enroll at USC in 1880. ===University library system=== The USC Libraries are among the oldest private academic research libraries in California.
Its first graduating class in 1884 was a class of three—two males and female valedictorian Minnie C.
One of the oldest student traditions at the university, the first edition was released in 1889 and was originally called The Sybil.
In 2015, the new building named for Wallis Annenberg started serving all faculty and students. The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California was established in 1897 as The College of Dentistry, and today, awards undergraduate and graduate degrees.
The name was changed to El Rodeo in 1899 to reflect the cowboy-themed events students threw to advertise the yearbook as a "roundup" of the year's events.
USC ran the Chaffey College of Agriculture until financial troubles closed the school in 1901.
Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in America: diver Sammy Lee (1953), shot putter Parry O'Brien (1959), swimmer John Naber (1977) and swimmer Janet Evans (1989). From the 1904 Summer Olympics through the 2014 Winter Olympics, 632 Trojan athletes have competed in the Games, taking home 144 gold medals, 93 silver and 72 bronze.
In 1906, the school was reopened by the municipal and regional government and thus officially separated from USC.
Until 1912, USC students (especially athletes) were known as Fighting Methodists or Wesleyans, though neither name was approved by the university.
Since 1912, USC is the only university in the world to have a gold medal-winning athlete in every summer Olympiad. ===Men's sports=== In men's sports, USC has won 97 team national championships (84 NCAA titles) – more than any other school – and male athletes have won a record 303 individual NCAA titles.
Working in proud partnership with the Trojan Marching Band and the USC Song Girls, the USC Spirit Leaders help to create a winning atmosphere for all Trojan athletes. ===Student media=== The Daily Trojan has been the student newspaper of USC since 1912 and is a primary source of news and information for the campus.
The acceptance rate to the School of Cinematic Arts has consistently remained between 4-6% for the past several years. The USC School of Architecture was established in 1916, the first in Southern California.
Together with the Trojan Marching Band, they are a visible public face of the University and function as the ambassadors of spirit and goodwill for the Trojan Family. ==== Yell Leaders ==== Lindley Bothwell founded the USC Yell Leading Squad in 1919 in his first year as a student at USC.
The first was prepared by the Parkinsons in 1920, which guided much of the campus's early construction and established its Romanesque style and 45-degree building orientation. The second and largest master plan was prepared in 1961 under the supervision of President Norman Topping, campus development director Anthony Lazzaro, and architect William Pereira.
USC's official fight song is "Fight On", which was composed in 1922 by USC dental student Milo Sweet with lyrics by Sweet and Glen Grant. ===Rivalries=== USC has rivalries with multiple schools.
A separate School of Architecture was organized in September 1925.
The two schools have kept the annual game on their schedules since 1926 (except 1942–44 because of World War II travel restrictions) and the game is often referred to as the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football. USC's most famous rival is UCLA, with whom there is fierce athletic and scholastic competition.
A statue was built in 2006 to honor the unofficial mascot. ===Marching band=== USC's marching band, known as The Spirit of Troy, has been featured in at least 10 major movies, and has performed in both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
It publishes US-China Today and is widely known for its twelve-part Assignment:China documentary series on how China has been covered by American journalists since the 1940s.
It is a popular meeting point for students and a landmark for visitors. In the 1940s, George Tirebiter, a car-chasing dog, was the most popular unofficial mascot.
The two schools have kept the annual game on their schedules since 1926 (except 1942–44 because of World War II travel restrictions) and the game is often referred to as the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football. USC's most famous rival is UCLA, with whom there is fierce athletic and scholastic competition.
KXSC traces its roots to the original KUSC, which was operated by students starting in 1946.
The university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952. When USC opened in 1880, tuition was $15.00 per term, and students were not allowed to leave town without the knowledge and consent of the university president.
In 1958, the shade of gold, which was originally more of an orange color, was changed to a more yellow shade.
Since the 1960s, through-campus vehicle traffic has been either severely restricted or entirely prohibited on some thoroughfares.
Simpson, football star in the 1960s and murderer; George Lucas, creator of Star Wars; Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm Inc.
The first was prepared by the Parkinsons in 1920, which guided much of the campus's early construction and established its Romanesque style and 45-degree building orientation. The second and largest master plan was prepared in 1961 under the supervision of President Norman Topping, campus development director Anthony Lazzaro, and architect William Pereira.
It first appeared at a football game in 1961, was ridden by Richard Saukko, and was known as Traveler I.
These outreach programs, as well as previous administrations' commitment to remaining in South Los Angeles amid widespread calls to move the campus following the 1965 Watts Riots, are credited for the safety of the university during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Founded in 1967, the USC Song Girls appear at football, basketball, and volleyball games as well as other sporting events, rallies, and university and alumni functions.
In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities.
The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1969.
Most of the Pereira buildings were constructed in the 1970s.
News & World Reports engineering rankings for 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, founded in 1971, is one of the two communication programs in the country endowed by Walter Annenberg (the other is at the University of Pennsylvania).
USC won the National College All-Sports Championship, an annual ranking by USA Today of the country's top athletic programs, 6 times since its inception in 1971.
From at least 1972 to 1976, and likely for a number of years prior to 1972, it was called The School of Architecture and Fine Art.
When KUSC transitioned to classical programming and moved off-campus in the mid-1970s, a group of students reacted to renewed demand for student-run radio station and founded KSCR in 1975.
From at least 1972 to 1976, and likely for a number of years prior to 1972, it was called The School of Architecture and Fine Art.
Donated in 1977 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros.
They have also performed on television shows and with other musicians. The band performed on the title track of the 1979 Fleetwood Mac album Tusk, which went on to be a multi-platinum record.
Until 1982 the two schools also shared the same football stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The Trojans have also won at least one national team title in 26 consecutive years (1959–60 to 1984–85).
A statue was built in 2006 to honor the unofficial mascot. ===Marching band=== USC's marching band, known as The Spirit of Troy, has been featured in at least 10 major movies, and has performed in both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
In 1984, the University authorized a grant to move KSCR to a new location in Marks Hall.
The band performed during halftime at Super Bowl XXI in 1987 and Super Bowl XXII in 1988.
The band performed during halftime at Super Bowl XXI in 1987 and Super Bowl XXII in 1988.
Both universities have cracked down on pranks since a 1989 incident when USC students released hundreds of crickets into the main UCLA library during finals week.
The reports span from 1990 to 2016, and include using racist and sexual language, conducting exams without gloves, and taking pictures of his patients' genitals.
In 1990, the band performed live on America's Funniest Home Videos.
Since 1991, USC has been the headquarters of the NSF and USGS funded Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC).
These outreach programs, as well as previous administrations' commitment to remaining in South Los Angeles amid widespread calls to move the campus following the 1965 Watts Riots, are credited for the safety of the university during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
The School of Journalism, which became part of the School for Communication in 1994, features a core curriculum that requires students to devote themselves equally to print, broadcast and online media for the first year of study.
George Olah won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and was the founding director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.
USC's Annenberg School's endowment rose from $7.5 million to $218 million between 1996 and 2007.
TV8 was established in 1997 by the Annenberg School for Communication, but is now a part of the School of Cinematic Arts.
As the university administration considered cinematic skills too valuable to be kept to film industry professionals, the school opened its classes to the university at large in 1998.
The sweater-clad team consisted of all men for most of its existence, though the squad later opened itself up to applicants from both sexes and did feature one female Yell Leader in 1998.
John Gaspari was the executive director of USC's Center for Work and Family Life from 2000 to 2018, and he received the President's Award for Staff Achievement from Nikias in 2013.
In 2001, the film school added an Interactive Media & Games Division studying stereoscopic cinema, panoramic cinema, immersive cinema, interactive cinema, video games, virtual reality, and mobile media.
Leonard Adleman won the Turing Award in 2003.
In 2009, the band played on the show Dancing with the Stars. The USC band was only one of two American groups invited to march in the Hong Kong Chinese New Year parade in 2003 and 2004.
Previously known as the USC School of Engineering, it was renamed on March 2, 2004, in honor of Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna, who had donated $52 million to the school.
In 2009, the band played on the show Dancing with the Stars. The USC band was only one of two American groups invited to march in the Hong Kong Chinese New Year parade in 2003 and 2004.
In 2005, USC established a federal relations office in Washington, DC.
The Trojan Marching Band performed at the 2005 World Expo in Nagoya, Japan.
They were disbanded by the University after the 2005–06 season and replaced by the co-ed Spirit Leaders. ==== Spirit Leaders ==== The USC Spirit Leaders are responsible for leading stadium wide chants and increasing crowd participation at all Trojan athletic events, including football and basketball games.
In September 2006, George Lucas donated $175 million to expand the film school, which at the time was the largest single donation to USC (and its fifth over $100 million).
The School of Fine Art (known as SOFA for a number of years after Architecture and Fine Art separated) was eventually named the Roski School of Fine Arts in 2006 during a ceremony to open the then-new Masters of Fine Art building, which occupies the previous and completely refurbished Lucky Blue Jean factory.
In 2006, Qingyun Ma, a distinguished Shanghai-based architect, was named dean of the school. The Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering is headed by Dean Yannis Yortsos.
In 2006, the USC Department of Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology, and the USC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, which both had previously been organized as "Independent Health Professions" programs at the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, were administratively aligned under the School of Dentistry and renamed "Divisions", bringing the total number of Divisions at the School of Dentistry to seven.
A statue was built in 2006 to honor the unofficial mascot. ===Marching band=== USC's marching band, known as The Spirit of Troy, has been featured in at least 10 major movies, and has performed in both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
In May 2006, the Trojan Marching Band traveled to Italy, performing once in Florence, and twice in Rome (including in front of the Coliseum).
The majority of the student body was undergraduate until 2007, when graduate student enrollment began to exceed undergraduate.
USC's Annenberg School's endowment rose from $7.5 million to $218 million between 1996 and 2007.
Since the card was dissolved in 2007, the yearbook has been sold as a stand-alone item. ===Greek life=== The Greek community has had a long history on the campus.
In the 2008–2009 academic year, 4,400 undergraduate degrees and 5,500 advanced degrees were awarded.
In recent years, the band has appeared at the 2009 Grammy Awards, accompanying Radiohead; on the 2009 Academy Awards with Beyoncé and Hugh Jackman; and during the finale of American Idol 2008, backing Renaldo Lapuz in instrumentation of his original song "We're Brothers Forever".
Days before a clash between rivals UCLA and USC in 2009, the Bruins mascot was vandalized.
In recent years, the band has appeared at the 2009 Grammy Awards, accompanying Radiohead; on the 2009 Academy Awards with Beyoncé and Hugh Jackman; and during the finale of American Idol 2008, backing Renaldo Lapuz in instrumentation of his original song "We're Brothers Forever".
In 2009, the band played on the show Dancing with the Stars. The USC band was only one of two American groups invited to march in the Hong Kong Chinese New Year parade in 2003 and 2004.
The station's annual KXSC Fest, which began in 2009, has played host to performers such as Nosaj Thing, Muna (band), Mika Miko, Dan Deacon, Thee Oh Sees, and Flying Lotus.
In 2010, alumnus Herman Ostrow donated $35 million to name the school the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry.
The USC Digital Library provides a wealth of primary and original source material in a variety of formats. In October 2010, the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the largest repository for documents from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the world, became a part of the USC Libraries system.
In 2010, KSCR adopted the call letters KXSC in order to be eligible to obtain a new FM license from the FCC, as well as to mark the station's move to a brand-new facility in the basement of the Ronald Tutor Campus Center. Trojan Vision (often abbreviated as TV8) is the Student television station at USC.
Formerly called "USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences", the college received a $200 million gift from USC trustees Dana and David Dornsife on March 23, 2011, after which the college was renamed in their honor, following the naming pattern of other professional schools and departments at the University.
USC appeared in the top 10 list for both parents and students. On the 2011 "Green Report Card", issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, the university received a B-. The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism was ranked 1st in 2014 by USA Today.
The Marshall School of Business has satellite campuses in Orange County and San Diego. In 2012, USC established the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, the university's first new school in 40 years, which was a gift from philanthropist Glorya Kaufman.
John Gaspari was the executive director of USC's Center for Work and Family Life from 2000 to 2018, and he received the President's Award for Staff Achievement from Nikias in 2013.
News & World Report. In July 2013, the University expanded its medical services into the foothill communities of northern Los Angeles when it acquired the 185 bed Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California.
In 2013, the school introduced an eighth division, and in 2014, a $20 million gift endowed and named the USC Mrs.
Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The university also supports the Pacific Council on International Policy through joint programming, leadership collaboration, and facilitated connections among students, faculty, and Pacific Council members. The university has two National Science Foundation–funded Engineering Research Centers: the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems.
government and the USA Pavilion organizers asked USCI to manage the recruitment, selection, training and supervision of the students selected to staff the pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. ===Scandals=== On May 1, 2014, USC was named as one of many higher-education institutions under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for potential Title IX violations by Barack Obama's White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
In 2013, the school introduced an eighth division, and in 2014, a $20 million gift endowed and named the USC Mrs.
USC appeared in the top 10 list for both parents and students. On the 2011 "Green Report Card", issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, the university received a B-. The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism was ranked 1st in 2014 by USA Today.
1 film school in the United States for the third year in a row in 2014.
1 film school in the United States in 2014.
USC was ranked the 10th most applied to university in the nation for fall 2014 by U.S.
Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in America: diver Sammy Lee (1953), shot putter Parry O'Brien (1959), swimmer John Naber (1977) and swimmer Janet Evans (1989). From the 1904 Summer Olympics through the 2014 Winter Olympics, 632 Trojan athletes have competed in the Games, taking home 144 gold medals, 93 silver and 72 bronze.
The historic portion of the main campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Besides its main campus at University Park, USC also operates the Health Sciences Campus about northeast of downtown.
In 2015, the new building named for Wallis Annenberg started serving all faculty and students. The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California was established in 1897 as The College of Dentistry, and today, awards undergraduate and graduate degrees.
In the fall of 2015, the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance began to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree to a select number of undergraduates who wish to pursue dance as their major.
This four-year professional degree is housed in the state-of-the-art Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center. In 2015, USC established the Bovard College, which offers graduate-level programs in Human Resource Management, Project Management, and Criminal Justice.
In 2015, USA Today ranked USC 22nd overall for American universities based on data from College Factual.
Reuters ranked USC as the 14th most innovative university in the world in 2015, as measured by the university's global commercial impact and patents granted.
The Philosophical Gourmet Report in 2015 ranked USC's graduate philosophy program as 8th nationally.
In 2015, Forbes ranked the USC Marshall School of Business 3rd in the nation in producing graduates who are most satisfied with their jobs. The Princeton Review ranked USC video game design program as 1st out of 150 schools in North America.
, 537 Trojans have been taken in the NFL draft, making it the school with the most NFL draft picks. For the 2015 season, USC football was ranked 1st overall in recruiting by Rivals.com, with 4 five-star commits, 17 four-star commits, and 5 three-star commits. ===Women's sports=== Women's teams have earned 27 national championships.
The squad has traveled to Italy, Austria, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Japan, China and Australia, most recently having traveled to Milan, Italy to perform at the 2015 World Expo on America's Independence Day.
After accusations of drug use, he resigned from his position as dean in 2016 and was fired from the school the following year after the news stories were published.
The reports span from 1990 to 2016, and include using racist and sexual language, conducting exams without gloves, and taking pictures of his patients' genitals.
USC was ranked 15th overall in the 2016 inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking of U.S.
colleges. In 2016, USC was ranked as a "Top 10 Dream College" according to The Princeton Review, as conferred from a survey of 10,000 respondents.
If it were an independent country, USC would be ranked 13th in the world in 2016 in terms of medals.
Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. In 2017, the university came into the national spotlight when the Los Angeles Times published information about Carmen A.
In 2019, USC lost accreditation for their joint-run fellowship program in cardiovascular disease. To replace Puliafito, USC named Rohit Varma as dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC, but in 2017, Varma resigned after it came to light that USC had disciplined him for inappropriate behavior 15 years earlier. The following year, the Los Angeles Times broke another story about USC focusing on George Tyndall, a gynecologist accused of abusing 52 patients at USC.
Tyndall was fired in 2017 after reaching a settlement with the university.
In 2018, USC was ordered to pay $111,965 in legal fees to a male student accused of rape after the Title IX investigation run by Gretchen Means Gaspari was deemed unfair.
On August 17, 2018, his license G 88200 in the State of California was revoked based on discipline orders.
As of June 1, 2018, 401 people had contacted a special hotline to receive complaints about the doctor.
This brought the total value of the Tyndall settlements to over $1.1 billion. In 2018, Dennis Kelly resigned as men's health physician at USC after almost 20 years.
Among the 12 university personnel charged for their involvement in the scandal nationwide, four were associated with USC. In 2018, an assistant professor in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Erick Guerrero, resigned due to allegations of an affair with a student.
In 2018, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work Dean Marilyn Flynn moved to a "new role" after allegations of inappropriate financial transactions.
John Gaspari was the executive director of USC's Center for Work and Family Life from 2000 to 2018, and he received the President's Award for Staff Achievement from Nikias in 2013.
He was "convicted of misusing graphic photographs involving another woman" and fired from USC in 2018. ==Campus== The University Park campus is in the University Park district of Los Angeles, southwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Max Nikias resigned in 2018. The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the 20 professional schools are each led by an academic dean.
News & World Reports engineering rankings for 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, founded in 1971, is one of the two communication programs in the country endowed by Walter Annenberg (the other is at the University of Pennsylvania).
According to the National Science Foundation, USC spent $891 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 23rd in the nation. USC employs approximately 4,706 full-time faculty, 1,816 part-time faculty, 16,614 staff members, and 4,817 student workers.
In 2019, USC lost accreditation for their joint-run fellowship program in cardiovascular disease. To replace Puliafito, USC named Rohit Varma as dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC, but in 2017, Varma resigned after it came to light that USC had disciplined him for inappropriate behavior 15 years earlier. The following year, the Los Angeles Times broke another story about USC focusing on George Tyndall, a gynecologist accused of abusing 52 patients at USC.
Kelly, all by gay or bisexual students and former students. USC was one of several universities involved in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.
On March 12, 2019, three coaches and one athletic director were charged with having accepted bribes from wealthy families in return for fraudulently facilitating their children's admission to USC.
In 2019, Interim President Wanda Austin fired USC Marshall School of Business Dean James Ellis for the large number of complaints about harassment in his 12 years as dean.
The current president is Carol Folt who on July 1, 2019 succeeded Board of Trustee member Wanda Austin who had been appointed the interim president by the Board when the former president C.
News & World Reports engineering rankings for 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, founded in 1971, is one of the two communication programs in the country endowed by Walter Annenberg (the other is at the University of Pennsylvania).
Over 70,000 students applied for admission to the undergraduate class entering in 2021, with 12% being admitted. Among enrolled freshman for Fall 2019, the interquartile (middle 50%) range of SAT scores was 670-740 for evidence-based reading and writing, 680-790 for math, and 1370-1520 for the composite.
In 2020, USC was penalized for its faulty Title IX processes by the U.S.
In 2020, Nikias reportedly received $7.6 million as an exit package, including $194,000 for his wife, Niki Nikias, as "first lady".
By 2020, 49 accusations of misconduct had been made against Dr.
In 2020, USC School of Dramatic Arts Dean David Bridel resigned after admitting to an affair with an undergraduate. In 2020, the head of the Title IX Office, Gretchen Means Gaspari, left USC after a whistleblower suit was filed alleging that USC had been involved in "the systematic destruction of investigative records, including the deletion of a 'preservation file' related to George Tyndall".
News & World Reports 2020 annual ranking of national universities.
In the Niche Best Colleges rankings, USC ranked 19th overall for 2020 based on academics and quality of student life.
In its 2020 rankings, U.S.
For the entering first-year class in 2020, 43% of incoming students are drawn from California, 42% from the rest of the United States, and 15% from abroad.
As of January 2021, 10 Nobel laureates, 6 MacArthur Fellows, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the university.
USC's graduate programs in occupational therapy and physical therapy are ranked the nation's 1st and 4th best programs, respectively, for 2021 by U.S.
Over 70,000 students applied for admission to the undergraduate class entering in 2021, with 12% being admitted. Among enrolled freshman for Fall 2019, the interquartile (middle 50%) range of SAT scores was 670-740 for evidence-based reading and writing, 680-790 for math, and 1370-1520 for the composite.
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