At USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative, middle-school boys and girls are separated in some courses, boys often work in small groups and lectures break after 15 minutes. “We made our program more relevant to the way male brains learn best,” says USC’s Kim Thomas-Barrios.

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education survey places USC No. 3 in the West.

A naming gift for the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work bolsters the school's service to diverse communities.

USC experts in international relations, history and American studies and ethnicity find that some lessons stemming from the ‘Day of Infamy’ still apply.

Bollywood? Afro-Cuban? Students can dive into these dance forms, and more.

AT&T executive Carmen Nava and arts benefactor Dallas Price-Van Breda add community and corporate experience to the university’s governing board.