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Two Agents of Change students earn prestigious Soros Justice fellowships to address school-to-prison pipeline.

Each received $57,000 to further their joint project exploring and highlighting via the media the school-to-prison pipeline and its role in the incarceration and criminalization of young people of color in low-income communities in Los Angeles.

50 Stories for 50 Years of JEP

As part of their celebration, JEP wants to highlight fifty of stories of inspiration, overcoming obstacles, of community, and so much more. Starting January 17th with the story of current Executive Director Susan Harris, JEP will reveal more and more stories until the end of the year.

Mock Trial Takes on Nationals

USC Mock Trial program advanced to the 2022 Mock Trial National Championships, competing in a network of over 400 collegiate programs to face the highest-scoring teams in the country.

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From learning and immersing yourself in another country to fighting for civil rights issues, ExL has a breadth of experiential programs available for students.

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Spark to Flame

If ever a spark were to be ignited, some of our students would be too overwhelmed with crafting the perfect dossier to foster the flame that brings passion, growth and ultimately success – whatever that looks like.

Our Spark to Flame series serves to dispel the notion that success is a linear path with no room for error or deviation.

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Agents of Change helped me gain experience in the community advocacy and organizing as well as allowed me to financially support myself. Most students have to sacrifice one for the other, but AOC allowed me to do both. Now in my post grad, I’m working full time at both the legal aid and the government agency I interned with. This ExL program is something every school should have.

Charlie Rivera Class of 2022

The USC Trial Advocacy program taught me how important using my voice to advocate for myself and others is. Participating in mock trial is the BEST pre-law preparation out there; from learning the Federal Rules of Evidence to learning how to cross-examine a witness, I know these are skills I will use throughout my career as an attorney. Also, it has provided me access to many pre-law resources that I would not have gotten otherwise. This program is one example of how experiential learning has been essential to my undergraduate studies.

Annaleigh Nguyen Class of 2023

The Fisher Fellowship has empowered me, through a fellowship of like-minded peers as well as with resources and connections, to give back to the community that surrounds USC. It’s also allowed me to fine-tune the organizing and community buildings skills I’ve developed in other experiential learning programs to become a more effective change-maker.

Quynh Anh Nguyen Class of 2024

Beyond the Classroom

Through the Dornsife Experiential Learning opportunities, students leave the classroom for opportunities, throughout the world, to learn through doing–not just studying.

Students get out of the traditional classroom and into the real world to expand their interests and develop world views.

Maymester in Paris where students study abroad with Professor Cecilia Woloch.

Since 1972, some 100,000 USC students have taught in classrooms and provided more than a million service-hours to the neighborhoods around the university, as volunteers in USC Dornsife’s Joint Educational Project (JEP).