Joint Educational Project News
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U.S. News Ranks USC’s JEP Program
July 12, 2006A new set of college rankings released this month by U.S. News & World Report featured USC on its list of Top College Academic Programs in Service Learning. The school was recognized primarily for its 35-year-old… more>
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The Heart and Soul of Medicine
July 1, 2006Fabric-shop seamstress Maricela Parra developed throbbing neck pains working long hours hunched over a sewing machine. When she tried to tell her doctor about it, she hit a barrier. “Tengo mucho dolor,” Parra, 33,… more>
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Young Men, Big Dreams
July 1, 2006Although standing in front of a chalkboard, former National Football League player Reggie Grant sounded as if posed in front of a scoreboard, issuing a command on a playing field. “To make it into the NFL, you have to… more>
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Helping Teens in Turn-Around
June 1, 2006Arms crossed and looking contemplative, Mariela Membreno recalled the day police arrived at her high school and hauled her off to jail. “I was walking in the hall and the cops came up to me,” said the 17-year-old… more>
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A Trojan Farewell
June 1, 2006A few hundred people packed Town and Gown Monday to honor and bid farewell to Joseph Aoun, the 19th dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences whose career at USC spanned a quarter century. “I look at our life… more>
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Star Service for Peace
July 1, 2005Actor and student America Ferrera on volunteering By Pamela J. Johnson July 2005 America Ferrera had been volunteering inside the Norwood Street Elementary School classroom for months before a third-grader timidly approached… more>
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Peace Games
July 1, 2005USC Joint Education Project Makes a Difference By Pamela J. Johnson July 2005 At the playground at Norwood Street Elementary School, three second-graders begin squabbling, each certain he is the rightful owner of a wildly… more>
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Machine Shop Gives 100 Percent
February 1, 2005There may be no free lunches in this world, but recently members of USC College’s natural sciences machine shop did enjoy a meal on the Dean’s dime. USC College Dean Joseph Aoun picked up the lunch tab for… more>
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Giving Back… and Then Again
July 1, 2004By Kaitlin SolimineJuly 2004 “It’s come full circle,” says USC College alumna Elda Pech as she sits in her office at L.A. Unified School District’s Magnolia Elementary School where she is a data coach… more>
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Salvatori Scholarships Reward Volunteerism
July 1, 2004By Kaitlin SolimineJuly 2004 Industrialist and long-time USC trustee Henry Salvatori deeply believed that service is each individual citizen’s responsibility. It was upon this idealistic bedrock that he established the… more>
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