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Culture and Community Success

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    Culture and Community Success

    The Office of Culture and Community Success acts as a centralized hub, unifying Marshall students, staff, and faculty around a shared commitment to bold, collaborative growth that integrates human leadership, principled action, and inclusive engagement. By embracing our differences and intentionally fostering engagement and belonging, the Office reinforces Marshall’s dedication to academic excellence and meaningful societal impact while furthering USC’s broader mission to serve and innovate for the public good.

    USC Marshall is committed to building supportive spaces for all of our students, staff, and faculty, while encouraging empathy, inclusion, and understanding across a variety of backgrounds.

You have to be able to hear every voice. If you establish a culture where everyone feels valued and that they belong, then you do get more. You get more engagement, more collective intelligence, more creativity, better critical thinking.


Sarah Townsend

Vice Dean of Culture and Community Success

Associate Professor of Management and Organization

OFFICE OF CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SUCCESS

The Office of CCS lays the groundwork for Marshall and USCʻs mission by partnering with students, staff, faculty, and alumni to ensure that we have a community in which members from all backgrounds are valued, heard, and empowered to create positive change.

We engage in work in two overarching areas, while deliberately promoting practices and policies to ensure fair treatment:

    • Undergraduate student recruitment. In partnership with admissions and various individual faculty, the Marshall and Leventhal schools have several initiatives to broaden potential recruitment. These programs provide potential students with resources and information on applying to USC and prepare them for success and ultimately expand access to business and accounting professions.
    • Master’s and doctoral student recruitment. Working with other academic units across USC as well as outside organizations (such as CONSORTIUM), we work to increase the visibility and position of Marshall as an inclusive academic community.
    • Strategic faculty hiring. We support the Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs as well as our department of human resources to assist with increasing utilization of the resources available to departments and hiring committees and to promote broad recruitment strategies and unbiased hiring processes.

GRADUATE STUDENT AFFINITY ORGANIZATIONS

There are nearly 30 registered Marshall Graduate Students Organizations, including affinity organizations. Groups are open to all Marshall graduate students and provide a means of support, resources, collaboration, professional development, social networking and advocacy opportunities.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AFFINITY ORGANIZATIONS

There are 30+ Marshall Undergraduate Student Organizations, including affinity organizations. Groups are open to all Marshall undergraduate students and provide opportunities to engage around shared interests and experiences, as well as to build leadership, encourage teamwork, and sharpen networking skills.

C&C FELLOWS

The USC Marshall and Leventhal Culture & Community (C&C) Fellows program is a one-year initiative for faculty and staff of the Marshall School of Business and Leventhal School of Accounting to expand organizational efforts across the organization. Beginning in Fall 2024, the program focuses on three pillars: Knowledge (workshops, education sessions, and discussions), Community (building connections among faculty and staff), and Service (supporting Office of Culture and Community Success initiatives). Fellows serve as facilitators, mentors, strategists, and ambassadors while engaging in assessment and evaluation of organizational culture and community efforts. Participation requires attending monthly meetings, completing professional development opportunities, and contributing at least 30 hours annually to Marshall/Leventhal community and culture efforts. Benefits include professional development opportunities, access to learning opportunities, and a supportive community of culture and community practitioners.

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