Gordon Brown says that universities and public convening spaces like libraries can play a vital role in rebuilding civic participation.
COMMENCEMENT: Eleanor Love — USC Price’s undergraduate commencement speaker — is hardly the first Trojan to help conduct research for USC’s Center for Inclusive Democracy. But she’s the first to start at age 14.
STORY, PHOTOS and VIDEO: “These are old documents, but they are still alive in a way,” says USC doctoral student Sharon Salgado Martinez.
The events featured appearances by Nancy Pelosi, Reince Priebus and other prominent figures across the political spectrum. Funds raised benefit the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future.
USC is the only university on the tour, an exhibition that brings some of America’s most significant founding-era documents to communities around the country.
Nadine Strossen’s conversation with Dean Franita Tolson of the USC Gould School of Law was part of the USC Open Dialogue Project.
The six-student team is helping with outreach, social media and student-facing programs for the project.
The law professor and legal analyst visited USC’s University Park Campus to discuss his latest book, Rage and the Republic.
The USC in D.C. Summer Program is designed to allow students to take classes in the nation’s capital while holding down an internship.
Across eras and ideologies, leaders have used family as a potent political metaphor to define loyalty, belonging and even nationhood itself. USC experts explain.
