USC’s Roberto Suro

I Don’t Want To Live Anywhere But L.A.

Roberto Suro directs the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at USC, where he holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the School of Policy, Planning and Development. Previously, he founded and directed the Pew Hispanic Center and spent three decades working all over the world as a journalist for publications including Time, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Before moderating a conversation about L.A. after immigration reform, he talked about his reading habits, bank robbery, and his love for mayonnaise …

June 25, 2013

Architect Qingyun Ma

The USC Dean Loves Downtown and Breakfast Burritos; Texting and Air China Not-So-Much

June 21, 2013

Architect Qingyun Ma is a curator, winemaker, and dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture. He is also the founder of architecture firm MADA s.p.a.m., which has …

Open the Gates of Troy

Closing the USC Campus Could Separate the University From Itself

By Keith Thorell | February 5, 2013

Before attending the University of Southern California in the 1990s, I’d heard that the neighborhood regarded SC students as privileged white kids in an otherwise minority neighborhood. People told me …

Ivory Tower No More

Are Universities More Engaged With Their Cities Now?

January 12, 2012

Throughout the 20th century, Eastman Kodak–whose bankruptcy has been in the news recently–was the largest employer in the city of Rochester. But 70 years after George Eastman’s death, another institution …

What Should Universities Do For Their Cities?

Perspectives On How Gown Can Help Town

January 11, 2012

Universities often set up shop in cities, and cities often set up shop around universities. But the relationship between the two communities–town and gown–can be quite distant, even hostile. What …

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