My wife and I really enjoyed the play! It was a real treat! Following subtitles and watching the play was a unique experience. My wife is fluent in Spanish, so she didn’t need the subtitles.  …

During the holiday season we are reminded of the great need to help those less fortunate than ourselves.With unemployment at a record high and 82,000 people homeless on any given night in Los Angeles, it was essentialfor the Upward Bound program and its participants to take action and help needy families this holiday season. Staff and students came together to organize the Upward Bound Hope for the…

Los Angeles ended the year with less than 300 killings – something that hasn't happened since 1967, when the population was almost 30% smaller.

Imagine in 1992, there were more than 3 homicides a day. In 2001 there were two every day. Last year there was less than one. (Great graphics from the LATimes.com below.)…

Manual Arts High School accommodates more than 2,500 students year round and is home to the oldest high school newspaper collection in Los Angeles. During the late summer of 2010 the Manual Arts High School Toiler Times newspaper began circulation again after a three year-long hiatus.

Thanks to a generous grant from the USC Good Neighbors Campaign the Toiler Times has partnered with Intersections: The South L.A. report, which is a program from the…

The English 404 class, Writers in the Community, had their annual poetry culmination

on November 30th to celebrate just that, the writers in our community: USC students, USC

faculty, and most importantly the outstanding youth from 32nd Street Elementary School.

All semester, eight undergraduate students under the mentorship and support of English Professor

Cecilia Woloch, spent their Tuesdays in pairs teaching poetry writing to 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade…

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As the year comes to a close, we just want to thank you for helping us change the world. Yes, change the world. No, we're not curing cancer, but we are touching peoples' lives every day. We know that. And in this fast-paced smart-phone world, people need that more than ever before. It is you, who come to our events, who…

Support the USC-South Central Farmers CSA! Order locally grown produce weekly, monthly or whenever you want leafy green goodness. Order by Monday at 5:00pm for delivery on campus on Wednesday afternoon. Please visit…

1 in 7 people in Los Angeles County is at risk of going hungry.

Hunger can be cured, through the help of caring individuals who want to…

The University Of Southern California's commitment to socially responsible spend continues to show through purchases from small local and diverse suppliers. In April 2010, during our current fiscal year, a record 13% spend was achieved in

purchases from minority, women, veteran or small local businesses. Thank you , USC staff, faculty and students and our USC UPC Purchasing Teams for your

clear dedication, commitment and inclusion of…