Strategic Plan and Initiatives

This page will showcase links to a sample of projects and collaborations important to the new Strategic Plan

2004 Strategic Plan

• USC's Plan for Increasing Academic Excellence:
  Building Strategic Capabilities for the University of the 21st Century (2004)
• Strategic planning process

Promoting Learner-Centered Education

• Center for Learning
• Center for Pedagogical Technology
• Learner-centered education CET resources
• Assessing teaching & learning CET resources
• When "outside the university" is "inside the university"
• Community-Based Learner Collaborative
• Communities of Practice ePortfolios; Blackboard; Distance Learning; NICE

Meeting Societal Needs

• Communications Critical Pathway
• Life Sciences Initiative
• Urban Initiative
• State Capital Center
• Highlighted research centers

Expanding Global Presence

• The Association of Pacific Rim Universities

Building Networks and Partnerships

• The Association of Pacific Rim Universities
• Community-Based Learner Collaborative

Maintaining Core Values

• Code of Ethics

Other Core Documents

• Role and Mission of the University of Southern California
  
• The Strategic Plan of the University of Southern California (1994)
  
• Four-Year Report on the Strategic Plan (1998)