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Suh-Pyng Ku
Vice Provost and Executive Director, USC Office of Continuing Education and Summer Programs

Suh-Pyng Ku was appointed vice provost and executive director of the USC Office of Continuing Education and Summer Programs in 2008. Working in close partnership with the schools, she is responsible for expanding USC's continuing-education programs and developing innovative ways to bring lifelong learning to the university community.

Ku joined the provost's office in 2006 as the chief technology officer for enhanced learning, charged with leading the university's efforts to expand its technology-enhanced learning program. Prior to her appointment in the Office of the Provost, Ku – a professor of finance and business economics at the USC Marshall School of Business – served the USC Marshall community in a number of administrative capacities. She was the first director of the Center for Investment Studies (CIS), where she worked closely with the seven-member Board of Advisors in seeking global recognition for CIS as a preeminent center of learning and research. Under her leadership, CIS significantly enhanced its technological capabilities by incorporating financial analytics, such as BarraAegis, Bloomberg, WONDA, and Bernstein research.

As vice dean, she served on a variety of technology-related university-wide committees, including USC's Strategic Technology Forum, Distance Education and Distributed Learning Committee, and Blackboard Steering Committee. She also chaired various Marshall faculty, staff, and student committees. She helped lead the Marshall AIS team in eLearning efforts by working with faculty and an eLearning team to develop and deliver the first Marshall web-based mega marketing course; by working with the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development to develop a Master in Long Term Care Administration Program; by working with department chairs to recruit faculty to develop and deliver eLearning courses and developing MBA distance learning courses; by actively participating in the USC eLearning experiments (presented at APRU and USC conferences); and by working with the Center for Distance Learning on eLearning best practices.