Jep News
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Good Neighbors Campaign Reaches New Height
August 31, 2009For 37 years, the Joint Educational Project (JEP) has placed more than 60,000 USC students in community assignments. Through these meaningful experiences, they have learned firsthand about real life issues of poverty,… more>
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July 23, 2009
Author, Author!
Fourth grader Alex Flores clamps down hard on his pencil to finish his story that begins, "One day I came to school and no one was there." In his tale, Alex turns invisible and hears Mario singing the SpongeBob SquarePants… more>
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Thinking Outward
July 1, 2007Piper Stremmel knows what originally attracted her to community service at USC. As a freshman, she participated in the Joint Educational Project (JEP), the College’s service-learning program, to bolster her… more>
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JEP Celebrates 35th Year Serving Students and Community
March 1, 2007Now in its 35th year, the College’s Joint Educational Project (JEP) has changed the lives of thousands of people — student volunteers and those they help. A nationally recognized center for community involvement,… more>
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Lessons of Hope
September 1, 2006In fifth grade, Hector Martinez struggled each time his teacher called on him to read aloud. The chubby 9-year-old with a mass of curly black hair stuttered and confused his d’s with his b’s.Roxanne Aga, a… more>
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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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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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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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Good Karma
July 1, 2004USC College’s Joint Educational Project puts a new spin on community service By Kaitlin SolimineJuly 2004 Maybe it’s karma that causes good things to happen to good people. “My mother has always said that… more>
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