March 21, 2012
CNN's John Vause interviewed Erroll Southers, USC Price adjunct professor and associate director of USC's CREATE Homeland Security Center, about Toulouse Killings Suspect Mohammed Merah.
March 14, 2012
U.S. News & World Report featured several USC schools and programs in its 2013 edition of "Best Graduate Schools." The USC Price School was ranked No. 4 for Health Policy and Management; No. 6 in Public Affairs, up from No. 7 last year; No. 6 for Public Management Administration; No. 7 for City Management and Urban Policy; No. 7 for Nonprofit Management; No. 9 in Social Policy; No. 12 for Public Policy Analysis; and No. 21 for Public Finance and Budgeting.
February 21, 2012
Matthew Kahn proudly calls himself a "free market environmentalist." During his recent talk on "China's Future Green Cities" at Lewis Hall, he explained the moniker as part of the Urban Growth Seminar Series hosted by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Center for Sustainable Cities. Kahn, a professor at UCLA, began his talk with the idea that the world's population is urbanizing. China is following this global trend, with half of its denizens now living in cities. This has led to some widely recognized sustainability challenges. According to the World Bank, China has some of the planet's most polluted cities, Kahn noted.
February 7, 2012
Perceptions of Al Qaeda as a highly organized, rigidly centralized group that spanned the globe and exercised a precise strategy to defeat the West have proven to be untrue, Mitchell Silber said on Jan. 17 at the first of an ongoing lecture forum offered by the USC National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York City Police Department's Analytical and Cyber Units, offered an operational perspective to go along with the usual academic viewpoint on terrorism that has been presented in the CREATE Distinguished Speaker Series.
February 6, 2012
Hsu Jen-hui, dean of the College of Management at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, has been appointed Taiwan's deputy finance minister. Hsu, a graduate of the doctoral program at USC Price, specializes in local government finance and new institutional economics, the story noted.
January 16, 2012
International Business Times quoted USC Price School Professor Dowell Myers about the political value of the illegal immigration issue.
January 5, 2012
Longtime journalist Maria Ressa discussed how social network theory applies to terrorism as part of USC's Distinguished Speaker Series offered by the USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). In a November lecture titled "From Bin Laden to Facebook," Ressa explained how the "jihadi virus" has spread through different societies and geographic locations.
C-SPAN featured a centennial celebration of President Ronald Reagan held earlier this year that highlighted a partnership between the USC Price School and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. USC Price School Dean Jack Knott said, "It's been a great opportunity for my school and the university to partner in putting on the first event of the Reagan Centennial Celebration and to focus on an academic examination of President Reagan's life and legacy." Knott added that USC Annenberg School Dean Ernest J. Wilson III and Dan Mazmanian of the Price School played an important role in the event.
October 26, 2011
The Egyptian revolution began on Facebook with a call to protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Protesters used Twitter to maneuver around police and reach the area. People arrived at the location expecting to see a few hundred like-minded individuals. Instead, they found a few hundred-thousand. Until they reached the square, Egyptian dissidents had no clue of their strength. It was a remarkable indication of the power of social networks as a political organizing tool, as has been seen in many uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East. Khaled Fattal '84, chairman of the Multilingual Internet Group, discussed this phenomenon and its implications for the future during a recent lecture at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
September 9, 2011
The Pasadena Star-News quoted Erroll Southers, SPPD adjunct professor and associate director of USC's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, about airport security in the post-9/11 era.
September 7, 2011
KCET-TV's "SoCal Connected" interviewed Erroll Southers of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and Judy Muller of the USC Annenberg School about the legacy of September 11.
September 4, 2011
Voice of America interviewed Erroll Southers, SPPD adjunct professor and associate director of USC's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, on educating the public about terrorist threats.
August 30, 2011
Agence France-Presse quoted SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers, associate director of the USC Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), about the growth of the private security sector post-9/11.
August 5, 2011
Reuters quoted Richard Green, SPPD professor and director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, about the impact of the debt crisis on bids for the U.S. commercial real estate loan portfolio owned by failed lender Anglo Irish Bank.
July 7, 2011
The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted SPPD Professor Dowell Myers about changes in Mexican demographics.
June 9, 2011
NBC News Los Angeles interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers to discuss whether airports are spending wisely on security and counter-terrorism. Southers is a transportation security expert and the associate director at the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center, NBC noted.
May 12, 2011
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted Erroll Southers of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development about succession within al Qaeda following the death of Osama bin Laden.
May 7, 2011
The Whittier Daily News quoted SPPD Adjunct Professor Errol Southers about the impact of Osama bin Laden's death on his followers in al Qaeda.
May 7, 2011
CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Errol Southers about al Qaeda plans to target train systems in the United States. Southers is the associate director of the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center.
May 5, 2011
The Kommersant (Russia) cited USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Research Professor Adam Rose regarding the economic cost of the September 11 attacks.
May 1, 2011
CNN interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Errol Southers about the implications of Osama bin Laden's death for al Qaeda. Southers is associate director of USC's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
April 29, 2011
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development gave new meaning to the words "travel planning" during the recent international planning studios in India and Argentina. Led by Tridib Banerjee, SPPD professor and director of graduate programs in urban planning, the two studios gave students an opportunity to put theory into practice, collaborating to address real-world planning challenges in international settings.
March 23, 2011
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the State of Gujarat and the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University in India to establish a long-term institutional partnership in education and research.
March 11, 2011
The Christian Science Monitor quoted SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose about the impact of the recent earthquake and tsunami on Japan's economy. Rose is the coordinator for economics at the USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
February 14, 2011
With the help of Keith Hwang MS '83, Ph.D '92, the Cheonggye stream -- buried for more than a half-century beneath six kilometers of elevated highway -- is flowing again in downtown Seoul. Hwang, president of the Korean Transport Institute, recently visited USC to give a presentation on the stream restoration and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Jack H. Knott, the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and professor at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
January 19, 2011
Erroll Southers, associate director of USC's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, delivered the keynote speech at the fifth annual Global Security Leadership Summit in New Delhi, India. Speaking before an audience that included academics and government officials from Asia, Europe and Africa, Southers addressed the topics of terrorism and global security. Southers, MPA '98, is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
November 22, 2010
The Los Angeles Times reported that SPPD Professor Daniel Mazmanian was co-director of a new Pacific Council report on climate change, and quoted him about the report. Mazmanian directs the USC Bedrosian Center for Governance and the Public Enterprise.
November 18, 2010
CNN's "CNN Newsroom" interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers, associate director of USC's Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, as to whether in-flight Wi-Fi represents a security risk.
November 17, 2010
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development co-sponsored a guest lecture featuring former Time magazine correspondent David Aikman, who spoke to USC staff, faculty, alumni and students on "Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power."
November 15, 2010
The Daily Breeze ran an op-ed by SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers, associate director of USC's Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, about terrorists returning to their original targets, despite unsuccessful attempts.
November 11, 2010
KPCC-FM's "AirTalk" interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers about new security procedures instituted by the Transportation Security Administration, including full-body scanners and more rigorous pat-downs.
November 11, 2010
The failed Al Qaeda attempt to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes in October could be part of a terrorist strategy to move to more small-scale attacks, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said Sept. 4 as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series offered by USC's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE).
October 10, 2010
La Opinion featured research by SPPD Professor Dowell Myers which found that fewer immigrants are arriving in Los Angeles, while more who have settled in L.A. are staying. Foreign-born residents made up 39.4 percent of the city's population in 2008, down from 40.9 percent in 2000, and immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than two decades made up 42.3 percent of L.A.'s foreign-born population in 2008, nearly triple the number in 1990. The story quoted SPPD student Janna Goldberg, who participated in the study.
September 28, 2010
The National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) was awarded a new $15.3 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. CREATE, established in 2004 at USC as the first DHS Center of Excellence, will continue to improve the nation's security by evaluating the risks, costs and consequences of terrorism, and by helping to guide cost-effective investments in homeland security. The center is affiliated with the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Viterbi School of Engineering.
September 20, 2010
American Public Media's "Marketplace" interviewed SPPD Professor Dowell Myers about the place of undocumented workers in society.
September 11, 2010
CNN interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers about the impact of 9/11 on everyday life, business and travel. Southers, a counterterrorism expert, is associate director of special programs at USC's CREATE Homeland Security Center.
September 8, 2010
The Orange County Register cited a report by SPPD Professor Dowell Myers titled, "Thinking About Our Immigrant Future: New Trends and Mutual Benefits in Our Aging Society."
August 23, 2010
When the World Bank needed two summer interns to serve in its Beijing office, it turned to USC's School of Policy, Planning, and Development. MPA students Muge Wang and Jingjie Li proved to be the ideal candidates, thanks to their fluency in Mandarin and English, previous experience working on urban development issues in China during SPPD's international lab in Foshan and high academic standing. The students spent the summer working on an urban-rural integration project and creating a PowerPoint about the project for use by World Bank staff at global conferences.
July 29, 2010
This summer, four USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development students are applying their expertise to some of the complex challenges faced by China, a country with approximately 100 cities with populations over a million. The students are participating in three-month internships hosted by the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Development, China's leading urban planning agency. The goal is to foster a long and productive relationship between the professional and academic planning communities of the U.S. and China.
July 28, 2010
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development students Nora Cibrian and Cara Murayama, and professor Richard Sundeen expanded the borders of education during USC's first Alternative Spring Break trip to Cusco, Peru.
July 6, 2010
The Los Angeles Times quoted SPPD Professor Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC, about an effort to mobilize Latino voters in Arizona.
June 24, 2010
Fifteen senior-ranking officials from Vietnam's Ministry of Planning and Investment met with faculty from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development in May to discuss prospective collaborations in education and research. "They are seeking partnerships for developing courses and programs in public administration, public finance, project management and other topics related to regional economic development in Vietnam," said SPPD Senior Associate Dean Genevieve Giuliano.
May 28, 2010
Newsweek quoted Professor Dowell Myers of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development about changes to the demographic trends that drove an influx of illegal Mexican immigrants to the United States in recent years.
May 20, 2010
Six Trojans -- including the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development's Clara Suh '10 -- were awarded Fulbright Fellowships this year, and will be traveling to various corners of the world. Suh, who graduated with a bachelor of science in public policy, management, and planning, will participate in the English Teaching Assistantship program, working in South Korea.
May 10, 2010
ABC Radio (Australia) interviewed Erroll Southers of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development about the Pakistani Taliban. Southers is the associate director of the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at USC, the story noted.
May 7, 2010
During spring semester, 15 graduate students from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development collaborated with students from the Technical University of Berlin on a comparative study of transit-adjacent urban redevelopment. "The overall focus of the Berlin planning studio was the large-scale redevelopment of inner-city rail station sites," said Deike Peters, a SPPD adjunct and director of the planning studio.
April 28, 2010
Voice of America noted that Erroll Southers of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development participated in a panel at the Milken Institute's global conference.
April 15, 2010
Yin Wang, a doctoral student at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, won the ninth annual paper award competition of the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Transportation Policy and Administration. She won the honor for her essay "Determinants of Utilization of Private Finance in Toll Road Development: Evidence From the United States."
March 8, 2010
Richard Callahan, associate dean and director of state capital and leadership programs at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, recently participated as a guest scholar in the Global Perspectives Program at Istanbul Aydin University in Turkey. Over the course of his two-week visit, Callahan gave lectures and held workshops on issues such as effective public sector leadership and public management.
February 22, 2010
In recent weeks, Scripps Health president and CEO Chris Van Gorder, an alumnus of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, has led two trips to Haiti to help the victims of the earthquake. "The damage was much worse than I anticipated," said Van Gorder, MPA '86. "Just like everyone else, I watched all the major news stations, but that doesn't prepare you for the wide scope of devastation."
January 20, 2010
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Dean Jack H. Knott spoke to a packed audience about his firsthand experiences in Guantanamo Bay and Central and South America while participating in the 78th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, last fall. The week-long conference focused on the Southern Command, which is responsible for all U.S. military activities in Central and South America in addition to participating in disaster response in these areas, including Haiti.
January 11, 2009
Peter Robertson was one of three USC professors who have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2009-10. Robertson spent four months in Brazil, where his research focused on the development of a network of people and organizations interested in promoting the sustainable development of tourism in Rio de Janeiro.
December 11, 2009
This fall, leaders from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development headed to Foshan, China, to foster dialogue and advance the school's longstanding commitment to global outreach. SPPD cooperated with the World Bank to create an "Urban River Transformation" forum hosted by the Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development and Foshan Municipality in China's Guangdong province.
November 2, 2009
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis, "A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail." The award is given by the Global Planners Educators Interest Group at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
July 22, 2009
The Los Angeles Times quoted Professor Harry Pachon about the community support role of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. The consulate has long served as a bridge between the U.S. and Mexico, but has become increasingly active in recent years, Pachon said. "It reflects the recognition by Mexico that a significant portion of its people are living in the United States. This is one of a series of steps helping the Mexican consulate be a relevant factor in the community."
July 14, 2009
NBC Nightly News interviewed SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about the California budget crisis. "[T]he eighth largest economy in the world is unable to borrow, is unable to pay its bills, and that will have an impact not only on the state economy, but on the national economy and on the global economy," Jeffe said.
July 9, 2009
City News Service featured a new report from USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. The study found that the economic impact of the September 11 attacks was far less than original estimates, at $35 billion to $109 billion, rather than $500 billion. "This is the most comprehensive study to date on the economic impacts of 9/11, and it can be applied towards future planning and preparation in the event of future terrorist attempts," said SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose, the center's coordinator for economics. "It shows that Osama bin Laden's policy strategy to damage the U.S. economy was short-lived in its effects due to the resiliency of the U.S. economy."
February 9, 2009
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the World Bank signed an agreement designed to merge scholarly research and specific program initiatives to address sustainable development in the East Asia and Pacific Region. The signing ceremony took place during a conference in Washington, D.C., focusing on challenges facing megacities in the developing world.
January 26, 2009
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development marked its 80th anniversary by hosting a special colloquium Jan. 16 at the Davidson Conference Center. During the conference, Dean Jack H. Knott noted that SPPD remains dedicated to advancing academic theory and making a vital impact in the world.
January 20, 2009
La Opinion quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about former President George W. Bush's role in tarnishing America's image in the world. Bush's policies generated the ill will abroad, Jeffe said.
December 22, 2008
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development signed a formal agreement to participate in Fellows/USA, the Peace Corps' graduate fellowship program. This agreement will enable former volunteers to pursue a graduate education in public administration, public policy, urban planning, health administration and real estate development.
October 14, 2008
A panel of preeminent financial experts, including USC faculty, weighed in with their insights on how Wall Street plunged into a tailspin -- and also how to remedy the ailing markets. "Multi-party greed" drove the downturn, says Raphael Bostic, professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development.
October 1, 2008
Professor Harry Pachon was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the new citizenship test being phased in by U.S. immigration authorities. Some fear that the new format, which emphasizes concepts rather than facts, could result in examiners denying citizenship based on whims or prejudices, the story stated. For that reason, the new test is a "step backward," Pachon said. "There's latitude in answering the questions and that's where the problem lies," he explained. "There's potential for abuse and not knowing what to prepare for." Pachon is president of the Tomas River Policy Institute.
This past summer, more than 40 master's students representing all programs of study with the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development took part in the school's international lab program, doing research in Foshan, China, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
September 18, 2008
Professor Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, was quoted in Forbesabout the types of houses one can buy these days with $1 million. In many U.S. cities, inflated real estate prices can hold firm or slide only slightly in the city center, even as they collapse in the surrounding areas, Green said. "In the inland areas of Los Angeles, you can get a 4,000-square-foot house -- a huge house," he noted. But in popular Santa Monica or Marina Del Rey, "You'll get a shack."
June 29, 2008
Dowell Myers was quoted the USA Today about baby boomers and Latino immigrants. For a nation bracing to support 79 million baby boomers in their old age, the growing and younger population of Latinos should be viewed as economic salvation, Myers said. "Children are always a fiscal burden, yet children are also the lifeblood of every community," he explained. "What's killing Japan and threatening the economic future of Europe is that they don't have enough kids, and that's what's depriving these rural areas in America," he added. Myers is the author of Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America, the story noted.
May 15, 2008
Prof. Dowell Myers was quoted in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about immigration policy. Public discourse on the subject can be colored by what Myers calls the "Peter Pan Fallacy," the story stated. "Many of us assume, unwittingly, that immigrants are like Peter Pan, forever frozen in their status as newcomers, never aging, never advancing economically, and never assimilating," Myers said. In this naive view, "the mounting numbers of foreign-born residents imply that our nation is becoming dominated by growing numbers of people who perpetually resemble newcomers," he said.
As a counterterrorism expert and senior adviser to the president at RAND Corp., Brian Michael Jenkins can separate fact from fiction better than most when it comes to homeland security. His expertise was demonstrated on April 26 for the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center's Distinguished Speakers Series held at the USC Sol Price School of Policy. The talk was titled "The Long Campaign: What Have We Learned about War and Ourselves since 9/11."
A dirty bomb attack on downtown Los Angeles' financial district could impact severely the region's economy to the tune of nearly $16 billion, fueled primarily by psychological effects that could persist for a decade, according to a study by USC researchers and others. The study monetized the effects of fear and risk perception, incorporating them into a state-of-the-art macroeconomic model. "Terrorism can have a much larger impact than first believed," said study co-author Adam Rose, research professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Rapid urbanization has created a need for sustainable funding and financial strategy for infrastructure renewal in China, said Richard Little, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in a seminar offered on March 7 by USC Price and the METRANS Transportation Center. In 1980, China's population was just 20 percent urbanized. Today, that number has reached about 50 percent. To support this unprecedented growth, the country has invested enormous sums to provide transportation, power, communications, sanitation and other basic infrastructure.
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy advanced its work of "shaping the world" during Dean Jack H. Knott's recent trip to Israel. Knott traveled in the company of USC leaders, including President C. L. Max Nikias. During the trip, Knott forged relationships with policymakers, as well as representatives from top educational institutions, to create new opportunities for collaboration. He signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel's first private college.
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy was among several USC schools and programs that ascended in the latest national rankings released by U.S. News & World Report . The Price School climbed to sixth place (from seventh in 2008) in the newest edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" for public affairs.
Nuclear power produces about 20 percent of the electricity in the United States, and it's an increasingly important part of the overall energy supply mix. Still, the 2012 presidential candidates aren't likely to mention it during their campaigns, according to Detlof von Winterfeldt, professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, who recently completed a three-year appointment as director of Austria's International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, which explores issues of nuclear power.
During the fall, USC students who signed up for the course, "The Nonprofit Sector and the Public Interest," found themselves with $10,000 and a tough assignment. They had to give the money away to up to five deserving Los Angeles-based nonprofits. As part of the course, offered through the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, professor Richard Sundeen asked each student to choose a nonprofit to research. At the end of the semester, they presented their findings to the class as persuasive pitches asking for $2,000 to $10,000 gifts to meet specific needs of the organizations.
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development brought its international expertise to the table at the 2011 USC Global Conference, held Oct. 13-15 in Hong Kong. SPPD faculty joined business experts to discuss issues of worldwide significance at the three-day event. "Most of the issues we deal with -- from health care to urban development to the environment -- don't occur just in the United States but around the world," said SPPD Jack Knott. "We incorporate that global perspective as an integral fabric into everything we do at the school."
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD) has a mission to "shape the world," and more than 60 students spent their summers putting these words into action in Brazil, China, Bolivia and Australia.
Osama bin Laden is dead, but the former al Qaeda leader's strategy for defeating the United States survives and - contrary to popular belief - continues to be effective, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross warned. He is the fourth expert to be featured by the Distinguished Speaker Series offered by the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center, jointly housed at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD) and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
From the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina to this year's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the last decade has shown that disasters -- whether natural or man-made -- are inevitable and that the next one is coming soon. USC hosted the second annual International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) conference, "Reframing Disasters and Reflecting on Risk Governance Deficits," which was co-sponsored by the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and CREATE Homeland Security Center.
How can an online game educate Californians about carbon emissions? What's the best way for the California government to prepare for the baby boomer retirement? Can private canine companies provide an effective and reasonably priced screening method to enhance airline security? These are a few of the real-world issues that USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development MPP students tackled during the 2011 Policy Analysis Practicum.
Clara Suh, a cheerful and driven undergraduate student at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, brought home many valuable lessons - both professional and personal - from her internship in Asia. Suh, a senior graduating in May with a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy, Management, and Planning and a minor in German, spent the summer after her sophomore year working in Hong Kong as part of the USC Global Fellows Internship Program.
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development signed a memorandum of understanding with the South Korean government to provide graduate education and training for selected officials from Korea's Ministry of Public Administration and Security.