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The Southern California Studies Center (SC2) was established at the University of Southern California in the fall of 1995. The Center is a unique, campus-wide, interdisciplinary initiative. Its principal goal is to monitor and guide the transformations in environment, politics, economics, culture and society of Southern California. Both basic research and applied aspects of this mission are equally important. The Center has three fundamental objectives: Research and Information: to promote research on Southern California through construction of a centralized data source that will enhance existing campus capacities for information storage and retrieval, and data processing and imaging; Outreach: to initiate and participate in community dialogues and strategic partnerships to guide the future growth of Southern California; Curriculum: to encourage a transformative impact on teaching and curriculum development in the academy. The combined energies that the Center assembles will give the University of Southern California significant roles as a premier repository of accessible regional data, a lead research unit on regional issues, a cutting edge innovator of teaching technology, and a partner in collaborative leadership in community-building into the twenty-first century.
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