1870s
1871: Judge Robert Maclay
Widney and other citizens in the frontier town of Los Angeles begin
pursuing the idea of establishing an institution of higher education.
1879: Judge Widney forms a board of trustees and secures a donation of 308 lots of land from three community leaders.
1880s
1880: Marion McKinley
Bovard is named the university’s first president, concurrently serving
as professor of mental and moral philosophy and natural sciences.
1880: USC formally opens,
with 53 students and 10 faculty. A college of liberal arts, a
university band and a debate team are established.
1881: USC’s first dormitory, Hodge Hall, is opened.
1884: USC’s school of music is founded.
1884: USC holds its first
commencement, with a graduating class of three students; a woman,
Minnie Miltimore, is named class valedictorian.
1885: USC’s College of Medicine, the first in Southern California, is established. Eight alumni form USC’s first alumni association.
1885: USC receives a gift to create its first endowed faculty position, the John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics.
1888: USC plays its first football game and trounces the opponent 16–0.
1890s
1892: Dr. Joseph P.
Widney (brother of Robert Maclay Widney, and first dean of the
university’s medical school) becomes USC’s second president.
1892: USC’s first student newspaper, a four-page weekly called The University Rostrum, appears.
1895: Rev. George W. White becomes USC’s third president. USC adopts cardinal and gold as its official colors.
1896: USC’s law school begins when a group of apprentices form a voluntary association to study under a prominent attorney.
1897: USC begins offering courses in dentistry.
1900s
1902: USC’s second school newspaper, the Cardinal, is published. The monthly publication lives for a brief three numbers.
1903: George Finley Bovard (brother of Marion McKinley Bovard) becomes USC’s fourth president.
1904: USC’s first Olympic athlete, Emil Breitkreutz ’06, brings home a bronze medal for the 800 meters.
1905: The USC School of Pharmacy opens, as the first in Southern California.
1905: The Women’s Club of USC (renamed Town and Gown in 1927) is established to generate support for the university and its students.
1906: The USC Department of Physics offers coursework leading to degrees in civil and electrical engineering.
1909: USC’s Department of Education opens, to attain full school status nine years later.
1910s
1910: USC organizes a centrally administered graduate program governed by a Graduate Council composed of senior faculty members.
1911: President William Howard Taft visits the USC campus.
1912: Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen R. Bird dubs USC’s spirited athletic team the “Trojans.”
1912: Freshman Fred Kelly ’16 becomes USC’s first Olympic gold medalist. Greek letter societies are established.
1912: The USC Faculty Wives’ Club is formed (renamed the Faculty Women’s Club in 1995).
1912: The university announces a groundbreaking course in automotive science, the first of its kind in the world.
1914: A group of
international students founds the USC Cosmopolitan Club to “promote
friendship” among students from Asia, Latin America and Europe.
1914: The famous African-American political leader, educator and author Booker T. Washington visits the USC campus.
1915: Ten-year-old Teresa Van Grove enrolls at USC, making her the youngest Trojan.
1918: Mrs. Amy Winship, a
girlhood friend of Abraham Lincoln, attends USC at age 87 and is fondly
nicknamed “the oldest co-ed in the world.”
1919: USC’s Department of Architecture, the first program of its kind in Southern California, opens.
1920s
1920: The USC School of
Social Work is established. USC's College of Commerce and Business
Administration opens, the first business school in Southern California.
1921: Rufus B. von KleinSmid, later affectionately known as “Dr. Von,” becomes USC’s fifth president.
1922: USC dental student
Milo Sweet composes the music for USC’s official fight song, “Fight On,”
as an entry in a Trojan Spirit contest.
1922: USC creates an
extension division, offering afternoon and evening courses to the
community in locations ranging from Glendale to San Diego.
1923: The first Rose Bowl game is played in the present Pasadena location, with USC winning against Penn State 14–3.
1923: The USC
Trojans play in the first varsity football game ever held at Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum, beating Pomona College 23–7.
1924: USC establishes the
country’s first school of international relations. The university holds
its first formal observance of homecoming.
1925: The USC College of Engineering is formed.
1927: USC confers its first Ph.D. to David Welty Lefever in the School of Education.
1929: The USC School of
Public Administration opens. USC’s Department of Cinema — the country’s
first filmmaking program — is established.
1930s
1930: The Trojan Shrine is unveiled in celebration of USC’s 50th anniversary.
1930: With more than 700
foreign students (10 percent of the student body), USC ranks third in
the United States in international enrollment.
1932: USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library is dedicated.
1934: USC debuts its “University of the Air,” an educational outreach program broadcast on radio.
1935: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits the USC campus and receives an honorary doctor of laws degree.
1937: Gil Kuhn becomes the first Trojan football player to be drafted into the pros.
1939: USC’s Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Gallery (now called the USC Fisher Museum of Art) is dedicated.
1940s
1942: USC’s Department of Occupational Therapy opens as one of the first programs of its kind in the country.
1943: In the midst of World War II, some 2,000 military trainees add to crowded conditions on campus.
1945: USC establishes
biokinesiology and physical therapy departments (now merged into the
Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy).
1945: The USC Department of Drama is founded.
1946: KUSC goes on the air.
1947: Fred D. Fagg Jr. becomes USC’s sixth president.
1947: A feisty stray dog, nicknamed George Tirebiter, is adopted as USC’s official student body mascot.
1947: The University Senate (reorganized as the Faculty Senate in 1973 and renamed the Academic Senate in 1992) is formed at USC.
1948: Troy Camp is founded.
1950s
1950: USC English professor and distance-learning pioneer Frank Baxter is named by Life magazine as one of America’s eight finest college professors.
1952: USC’s Health Sciences campus opens.
1952: USC launches the first doctoral program in social work in the western United States.
1952: USC’s Institute
for Safety and Systems Management begins offering degree programs in
safety, human factors and systems management.
1953: University Avenue
(today’s Trousdale Parkway) is closed to vehicular traffic, marking a
major step in creating a self-contained, pedestrian-friendly campus.
1954: For the first
time, a white steed makes an appearance at a Trojan football game, with
rider Art Gontier. USC’s first Songfest is held at the Greek Theater.
1957: USC's tradition of on-campus pre-game picnics begins.
1958: Dr. Norman Topping becomes USC’s seventh president.
1959: The USC Associates, the university’s premier academic support group, is founded.
1960s
1960: Then U.S. senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon speak at USC.
1965: The USC School of
Dentistry founds its mobile dental clinic, now the oldest and most
extensive self-contained facility of its kind.
1965: Tailback Mike Garrett wins USC’s first Heisman Trophy.
1966: The Gamble House is deeded to the City of Pasadena in a joint agreement with the USC School of Architecture.
1968: USC launches “The
Urban Semester,” a program that sends students out of the classroom and
laboratory and into the city streets and halls of power.
1970s
1970: Historian John
R. Hubbard is elected as USC’s eighth president. President Emeritus
Norman Topping is elected as USC’s second chancellor.
1970: The USC student
body votes to assess itself a fee for a student-sponsored scholarship
fund, which becomes known as the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund.
1971: The USC Annenberg
School for Communication (renamed the USC Annenberg School for
Communication and Journalism in 2009) is established.
1971: USC creates the Department of Emergency Medicine — the country’s first.
1972: The USC Joint Educational Project (JEP) — one of the oldest service-learning programs in the United States — is launched.
1972: The USC
Information Sciences Institute is founded, providing key support for the
development of the Internet into a national and international system.
1973: The USC Credit Union opens its doors.
1974: The USC School of Urban and Regional Planning is founded.
1974: Dedeaux Field opens its gates, and USC’s baseball team wins its fifth straight NCAA title — to date still an unmatched record.
1974: The USC Mexican American Alumni Association is established.
1974: USC receives
a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the development of
Thematic Option, the university’s innovative undergraduate honors
program.
1975: The USC Davis School of Gerontology is founded, the first of its kind in the country.
1976: USC launches its “Toward Century II” fundraising campaign, which will bring in over $309 million in five years.
1976: USC’s Black Alumni Association is founded.
1976: Gerald R. Ford, 38th president of the United States, makes a campaign visit to USC.
1977: U.S. President
Ford sends USC President Hubbard an autographed $10 bill to satisfy
their wager on the Rose Bowl game in which USC defeated Michigan.
1977: USC establishes an
institute dedicated to hydrocarbon research, later named the Donald P.
and Katherine B. Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.
1980s
1980: USC celebrates its centennial, and James H. Zumberge becomes the university’s ninth president.
1981: USC's Doheny Memorial Library celebrates the acquisition of its 2 millionth volume.
1982: USC’s pathbreaking NIBS program (Neurological, Informational and Behavioral Sciences) begins training graduate students.
1982: USC inaugurates the annual Academic Honors Convocation to “honor the excellence that is in our midst.”
1983: Looking ahead to the summer Olympics in 1984, USC's 1983 Homecoming celebration includes "A Salute to USC Olympians."
1983: McDonald’s Olympic Swim Stadium opens on the University Park campus.
1984: The XXIIIrd Olympiad comes to Los Angeles, and University Park campus is the site of the largest Olympic Village.
1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan visits USC before officially opening the Olympic Games.
1986: USC launches the Freshman Seminars, which address broad topics in contemporary research and scholarship.
1986: The university assumes stewardship of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills.
1987: With the
opening of a Carl’s Jr. restaurant on campus, USC becomes the first U.S.
institution of higher education to own and operate a fast-food
franchise.
1989: USC becomes the first university in the world to offer a doctorate in occupational science.
1989: The Trojans’ new bookstore debuts, with one of the largest collections of trade journals and texts in Los Angeles.
1990s
1990: President James H.
Zumberge announces that “The Campaign for USC” has raised $641.6 million
and added more than a dozen new buildings.
1991: Steven B. Sample becomes USC’s tenth president.
1993: Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg gives $120 million to create the USC Annenberg Center for Communication.
1993: USC launches the eight-year Baccalaureate/M.D. Program, a partnership between the college and the medical school.
1994: USC Professor George Olah wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The USC Good Neighbors Campaign is inaugurated.
1995: USC launches
Friends and Neighbors Service Day, an annual “volunteer blitz” that
teams students and community residents to clean up local neighborhoods.
1996: The USC President’s Distinguished Lecture Series is inaugurated.
1997: For the 1997-98
academic year, USC for the first time in its history accepts fewer than
half of the students who apply as new freshmen.
1998: Alfred Mann gives $112.5 million to establish the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC.
1998: The schools of public administration and urban planning merge to form the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
1998: The General Alumni Association becomes the USC Alumni Association and adopts a new catchphrase: “lifelong and worldwide.”
1999: In appreciation for a $110 million gift, USC's medical school is renamed the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
1999: Time magazine and the Princeton Review name USC “College of the Year 2000” in recognition of its outstanding community service.
2000s
2001: USC’s Robert
Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts opens as the country’s first and only
fully digital filmmaking training facility.
2001: USC sponsors its first international conference, convened in Hong Kong.
2002: At the close
of the “Building on Excellence” campaign, USC has raised $2.85 billion
in nine years, a record in higher education fundraising.
2003: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security selects USC as its first Homeland Security Center of Excellence.
2004: The Los Angeles
City Council dubs January 21 “USC Trojans’ Day in L.A.” to honor the
university’s 2003 football, women’s volleyball, and men’s water polo
teams.
2004: USC sends 35 athletes to the 2004 Athens Olympics and wins 17 medals: eight golds, five silvers and four bronzes.
2004: The Board of Trustees approves the university’s new strategic plan: “USC’s Plan for Increasing Academic Excellence."
2005: The Princeton
Review selects USC as one of 81 “Colleges with a Conscience” based on
its outstanding record of community involvement.
2005: The university begins celebrating its 125th anniversary.
2006: An analysis by
Economics Research Associates reports that USC is responsible for $4
billion annually in economic activity in Los Angeles County alone.
2006: In its December “Top 20 Wired Colleges” issue, PC Magazine ranks USC as the eighth-most connected, plugged-in and high-tech campus in the country.
2006: USC University Professor Kevin Starr is awarded the 2006 National Humanities Medal.
2006: USC kicks off Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative.
2007: The USC Levan
Institute for Humanities and Ethics is created, engaging students with
the humanities and a particular focus on ethics and values.
2007: The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute for Applied Gerontology is established.
2007: USC inaugurates
the Discovery Scholars and Global Scholars programs to recognize
undergraduates who demonstrate original scholarship and creativity.
2007: USC professor of composition Morten Lauridsen receives the National Medal of Arts.
2008: USC breaks ground for the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.
2008: The White
House awards the 2007 National Medal of Science to Andrew Viterbi,
trustee, faculty member and namesake of the USC Viterbi School.
2009: USC Gould School of Law professor and associate dean Elyn Saks receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
2010s
2010: USC opens its sixth international office (and fifth in Asia) in Seoul, South Korea.
2010: The Institute
of International Education’s annual Open Doors report names USC the
country’s leader in international student enrollment for the ninth year
in a row.
2010: C. L. Max Nikias becomes the 11th president of USC.
2010: U.S. News & World Report ranks USC no. 23 in the United States.
2010: USC becomes the
first academic institution in the world to be designated an
International Safe Community by the World Health Organization.
2011: University Professor and historian Kevin Starr is inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
2011: Elizabeth Garrett is installed as USC's first female provost.
2011: Construction begins on the John McKay Center, a state-of-the-art athletics facility.
2011: USC receives $200 million -- the largest single gift in its history -- from Dana and David Dornsife.
2011: The country’s largest public literary festival, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, finds a new home on USC’s University Park Campus.
2011: USC receives
$110 million from Julie and John Mork to create the Mork Family Scholars
Program — USC’s largest single gift ever for undergraduate
scholarships.
2011: With a transformative gift of $150 million from the
W. M. Keck Foundation, USC's academic medical enterprise is named Keck Medicine of USC.
W. M. Keck Foundation, USC's academic medical enterprise is named Keck Medicine of USC.
2011: On Sept. 16, the
Trojan Family cheers the launch of the biggest fundraising campaign in
the history of USC, and of American higher education.
2011: The School of
Policy, Planning, and Development is renamed the USC Sol Price School of
Public Policy with a $50 million gift from the Price Family Charitable
Fund.
2012: USC marks the
100th anniversary of the Trojans nickname — one of the most iconic
monikers in sports history — for its athletic teams.
2012: For the third year in a row, The Princeton Review names USC the top school in the country for studying video game design.
2012: In 2012, the university added its sixth arts school—The USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.
2012: The L.A. City
Council unanimously approves the USC Village project, expected to bring
$1.1 billion in economic impact to the neighborhood.
2013: Campus health gets an upgrade as the five-story, 101,000-square-foot USC Engemann Student Health Center opens.
2013: USC School of
Cinematic Arts opens the new Interactive Media Building, showcasing
video game design, transmedia, and world building projects.
2013: Campaign for USC reaches a milestone, raising $3 billion in a record-breaking 3 years.
2013: Keck Medicine physicians become the first to implant the FDA-approved epilepsy-controlling device, the NeuroPace RNS.
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