News Stories

Neighborhood Outreach gets schoolchildren into the swim
USC News Nov 14, 2001
Contributions from faculty and staff to the Good Neighbors program help third- through fifth-grade students in the Family of Five Schools learn basketball, martial arts, soccer and swimming.

JEP: Peace begins right down the street at Norwood Elementary
USC News May 25, 2001
$325,000 state grant funds Peace Games, a comprehensive violence prevention program. USC students will play an important role in a violence prevention program that starts this summer at Norwood Street Elementary School.

USC Gets $100,000 Grant for School Literacy Program
USC Chronicle Feb 25, 2002
Civic and Community Relations, in partnership with the USC Rossier School of Education and USC Information Services, is the recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to implement Literacy One, a new program to improve the English-language skills of children in the neighborhood surrounding the university.

USC Community Outreach Programs Expanded
USC Chronicle Feb 25, 2002
A reorganization of Civic and Community Relations will enable the university to take on an expanded role in the surrounding neighborhood. Involvement with the community got a boost with the appointments of Katharine A. Diaz and Sharon Stewart as directors of community outreach.

The College: Joint Educational Project marks 30 years
USC Today Jan. 31, 2002
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.

Weemes Students Help L.A. Angel Project Take Flight
USC Chronicle Feb. 5, 2001
Youngsters from L.B. Weemes Avenue Elementary School – a USC Family of Five school – used collagé techniques to transform one of the many angels that will be unveiled throughout Los Angeles Feb. 14.

Family of Five: Blossoming into community leadership
USC Today Dec. 14, 2000 Guadalupe Lopez graduates, after 15 years, from professionalvolunteer to employee at 32nd St/USC Magnet School.

Kings Goalie Scores a Different Kind of Hat Trick
USC Chronicle Apr. 8, 2002
Los Angeles Kings goalie Felix Potvin read the "Cat in the Hat" to Vermont Avenue Elementary students at the unveiling of the school’s new "reading garden" last month. Also at the ceremony were Principal Major DeBerry, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Tina Koneazny, director of USC Joint Educational Project’s Readers Plus program.

United Airlines Adopts Class at 32nd Street/USC Performing Arts Magnet School
News Release May 13, 1999
Deanna Reed's third-grade students won't have to worry about college tuition or other higher education costs, United Airlines officials announced during a press conference at the 32nd Street/USC Performing Arts Magnet School today.