<p>Given the UCLA situation, does it have any impact (directly or indirectly) on USC? How is everything going with USC? Can USC students focus on their normal routine and study?</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure what you are asking. I don’t think protests on UCLA’s campus would in any way disrupt studies or routines on the USC campus.</p>
<p>If you are asking about USC’s financial situation, there is some info on how the economy has impacted USC’s endowment in Steven Sample’s address to faculty this year [USC</a> President - Speeches and Articles - 2009 - Faculty Address](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/president/speeches/2009/faculty_address.html]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/president/speeches/2009/faculty_address.html)</p>
<p>(I am certain you are aware… but just in case, I will mention that USC is not a “UC.”)</p>
<p>We’re laughing at them. Even better because it’s Conquest week and we’ve got the big football game coming up.</p>
<p>Oh god I wish I was there</p>
<p>I was talking to my daughter and she mentioned the UCLA protest and the word entitlement did come up in our conversation.</p>
<p>I believe that it will, but only as far as future admissions are concerned.</p>
<p>1) For OOS students admitted to both schools the cost is nearly a wash if you are paying full freight. All other things being equal it is very difficult to provide a rational justification for paying higher costs for larger classes and more hassle getting into classes that you want and/or need. This has been the case for a while now, but if the 30% hike extneds to OOS students it will make it a no-brainer for most.</p>
<p>2) If the budget cuts at the UCs continue, they are bound to eventually experience meaningfull faculty loss and decline in both reputation and actual performance. As has been said before, continued rise of USC in the (stupid) USNWR rankings is predicated on somebody else slipping. Looking at the list, UCLA is a prime candidate for this… but only if the situation is allowed to persist over 3-5 years. In the short term the national and international reputations of the two schools are not exactly where one might think they would be given the USNWR lists, and this will surely be a factor for some.</p>
<p>The following are highlights from a newspaper article regarding cutbacks in the UC system and the UCLA website:</p>
<p>Due to budget problems changes have already taken place at UCLA. In the last three years class size has increased by 20%. The university expects a multimillion dollar shortfall which is still yet to be determined. Numbers have been estimated from 13 million to 31 million. </p>
<p>The courses available to students have been cut. Eliminated have been 165 courses. UCLA has reduced faculty and staff hiring, cut spending on equipment, travel and contracts. Also, data centers and communication networks have been consolidated. Faculty members have been asked to take unpaid furloughs. Faculty recruitment has been lowered. </p>
<p>This is a quote from the UCLA website: “The campus is overenrolled.”</p>
<p>Tuition and fee increases are $1,170 this year and $1,344 next year.</p>
<p>Other cutbacks mentioned were: reducing general fund support by 50% for research centers and 40% for teaching services. Student services are expected to be cut by 10%. Housing and parking fees are expected to increase by 40%. Other programs and capital projects are to be cut by 5 million.</p>
<p>A key cut which was mentioned will affect students across the board. The average class size will be about 60 per class.</p>
<p>This is anecdotal, but many students are concerned about the difficulty of taking necessary classes to graduate in four years. Students remark it takes five years to graduate due to lack of spots in required classes.</p>
<p>we have a 3.3b+ endowment
i think were good</p>
<p>I was at a luncheon where Dean Ellis of the Marshall School of Business spoke…he mentioned that the business school had hired something like 20 new professors (I don’t remember the exact number, but it was around there) for next year because USC had the resources to lure these faculty from other schools that might be struggling financially.</p>
<p>Please give me a scholarship, USC</p>
<p>My daughter mentioned to me that a number of her friends who are at UCLA or Berkeley (soph year) are having regrets they did not decide on USC where they were also accepted. Much as they’ve otherwise liked their schools, they are having serious issues in getting into necessary classes. It will be interesting to learn what percentage of acceptees from my D’s former HS ( a major feeder for all three) will choose USC over a UC and whether the proportion will be higher than in previous years.</p>
<p>We were hoping to pick up some UC profs, we have been hit but no where as hard as the California system. I was told that they couldn’t sell there homes so they are stuck.</p>