The USC Culture Journey
The USC Culture Journey is a university-wide initiative to align the Trojan community around the values that unite us, work on demonstrating behaviors that bring those values to life, and develop opportunities to improve our systems and processes.
In 2019, tens of thousands of Trojans – faculty, staff, students, governing bodies, deans and unit leaders – shared their voices to define our unifying values, aligned behaviors, and what actions should be taken to enhance USC’s institutional culture. Our six Unifying Values form the basis for our ethical behaviors and decision-making. USC is committed to making consistent progress along its Culture Journey, which involves regularly reporting to the community, and getting feedback from community,
In 2022, the university issued a Culture Report, and in 2024, USC students, faculty and staff were invited to participate in a survey to help measure culture improvements and assess the extent to which the six Unifying Values are being lived out at the university. To learn about the results of that survey and get more information about USC’s ongoing culture improvement initiatives, visit the Culture Journey website.