VICE PRESIDENT JOHN CURRY TO JOIN UCLA TOP MANAGEMENT
Feb. 17 to accept a top management post at UCLA.
Curry has been named UCLA's administrative vice chancellor and chief
financial officer. As a member of the Chancellor's Executive
Committee, he will oversee business, accounting and financial
services, administrative computing, telecommunications, facilities
man agement, human resources, and community and environmental health
and safety. As well, he will assume leadership of an initiative to
decentralize some university functions and streamline support
services.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for John and reflects the high
regard in which is held nationally," said Dennis Dougherty, senior
vice president for administration.
"During the past 10 years, John has developed an extraordinarily
competent staff and thus leaves the University in a strong position
to continue the quality of service we have all come to expect. We
wish him well in his new endeavors."
Curry said he agreed to time his departure so he could take part in a
critical February Board of Trustees Budget Committee meeting where
the blueprint of the 1993-94 budget will be extensively deliberated.
Dougherty said most of the work of establishing 1993-94 budget
parameters will have been completed by the time of Curry's departure.
"But there's still a great deal of work to do," Dougherty said, in
order to deliver a final completed budget to the Board of Trustees
Finance Committee in May.
Curry, who has been at USC for 16 years, said his time here has been
challenging and exciting, but this was the next logical step for him
in career growth.
"It's simply an extraordinary opportunity," he said. "The job was
superb." He added that it's not always easy for a two-career family
"to find opportunities that the other can abide," and that the
closeness of UCLA was an attractive factor. Curry's wife, Kristine
Dillon, is USC's associate vice president for student affairs.
Curry, who received his B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1964 from West
Virginia University, completed doctoral coursework in mathematics in
1967 at Carnegie-Mellon University. He taught at Chatham College and
was a management intern and National Institutes of Mental Health
Fellow at Stanford before joining USC as an assistant to the
executive vice president in 1976. He became director of management
planning in 1978, executive director of the budget in 1980 and vice
president for budget and planning in 1986.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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