Social Impact

After an accident paralyzed him from the chest down, this former USC swimmer opted to give back to others like himself.

After extensive renovations, the world’s largest repository of LGBTQ+ materials opens with Blood Baby, an exhibition celebrating queer kinship, radical gender performance and belonging.

The 2023 USC Dornsife LABarometer survey finds housing challenges persist, but Angelenos are feeling better about the economy and only 3% plan to leave.

Although 91% of state households have broadband, challenges persist for low-income K-12 families.

USC experts have developed an AI tool that could help homeless service agencies avoid potential biases in housing allocation.

USC Price’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute examined the encampment outreach effort in Venice Beach.

“Themes that came up in the magazine are still relevant and with us today,” says the exhibit’s curator, USC Libraries’ Alexis Bard Johnson.

The first wave of more than 360 U.S. universities and colleges has met a new gold standard of transparency in financial aid packages and cost estimates for potential students.

A “fireside chat” between USC President Carol L. Folt and Mayor Karen Bass reinforces the university’s collaborative work with the city in a united quest to care for the unhoused, whose numbers have increased since COVID.

Overeas study programs enrich education by exposing USC Price students to new ways of thinking.