On Tuesday August 3rd, C.L. Max Nikias took the reigns as USC's newest President. I received my invitation to the Inauguration Ceremony, to be held on October 15th, in my inbox on Wednesday. Nikias looks to be a protégé of Steven Sample, the outgoing President. If he is then USC has a couple of decades of even more stellar growth and accomplishment to look forward to. I know that I and all of the Trojan Family around the world wish him our best and offer all of our support.
Last year, in what I would assume was a marker of things to come, Nikias gave the Pullias Lecture at the USC Rossier School of Education. You can read it here. It is nothing short of a manifesto for the future of higher education. It is incredible. Read it in its entirety. It is a vision of the future worth fighting for. In Jesuit-speak it is the equivalent of Ignatius' call to go "set the world on fire" -- except he ties it back to the Greeks, which for a man born and raised in Greece is only appropriate.
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