- USC Hailed as Nation’s ‘Best Neighbor’
- University heads a roster of 25 academic institutions that have made a positive impact on urban communities.
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- AAA - Westways Magazine - World Class - In the French Style
- A mother gains insight when her daughter returns from Paris (third article)
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- The Heart and Soul of Medicine
- Trojan Health Volunteers put their dream of becoming doctors to the test while helping the ill and injured
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- Youngsters Get Kick Out of NFL Impact
- USC College and pro football encourage inner-city teens to push for success on the field, in school and in their personal lives.
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- U.S. News Ranks USC’s JEP Program
- A new set of college rankings released this month from U.S. News & World Report featured USC on its list of Top College Academic Programs in Service Learning.
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- Mentoring Those Who Made Mistakes
- Arms crossed and looking contemplative, Mariela Membreno recalled the day police arrived at her high school and hauled her off to jail.
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- Oliver Sicat
- Oliver Sicat, the Program Assistant Coordinator at JEP in his senior year at 'SC takes his experience to the East Coast.
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- Trojans Bid Farewell to Joseph Aoun
- The outgoing USC College dean is honored as an administrator with high standards who brought people together across disciplines, says President Sample.
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- JEP Marks 30 Years as a Pioneering Service-Learning Program
- Thirty years after it was founded, the USC Joint Educational Project is being lauded as one of the best service-learning programs in the country.
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- Read All About It
- Volunteers make a difference in the USC Literacy Project, a program that improves the reading abilities of children in the community. The results are encouraging — 63 percent of tutored youngsters show substantial improvement.
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- Public Service Guru Dick Cone Bids JEP Adieu
- Dick Cone is leaving USC at the end of this month, 25 years after the Peace Corps veteran took a job with the university’s Joint Educational Project.
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- JEP: Peace begins right down the street at Norwood Elementary
- $325,000 state grant funds Peace Games, a comprehensive violence prevention program
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- The College: Joint Educational Project marks 30 years
- One of the oldest service-learning programs in the nation, it will celebrate with a special reception March 1. Tammara Seabrook Anderson stays on as director after 25-year veteran Dick Cone retires (see story at end).
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- Honors: USC named ‘Leadership Institution’ by Assoc. of American Colleges and Universities
- The Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., has named USC a "Leadership Institution," recognizing it for providing stimulating educational experiences both inside and outside of the classroom.
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- Time/Princeton Review
- The University of Southern California has been named "College of the Year" by the 2000 edition of the Time/Princeton Review College Guide.
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- Service to Learning
- For 25 years, USC’s Joint Educational Project has worked to connect students’ academic life to the world outside the gates.
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- A Bridge to the Community, JEP Celebrates Its 25th
- Martin Galindo, principal of Vermont Avenue Elementary School, gets déjà vu every time he sees USC's Joint Educational Project students working with Vermont school kids.
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- Dick Cone Honored for His Dedication to JEP's Educational Mission
- As a teacher in the Peace Corps, Dick Cone was the kind of educator who liked to tackle a problem school in some distant country, such as Iran or Jamaica, make a quick fix, then go somewhere new, carting his wife and small kids with him.
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