Hello Rossier Students!

It is the time of the year to nominate your next RSO Executive Board for the 2018-2019 school year! You can nominate yourself or your peers for any position.

Please go to this link to fill out the nominations: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIfWiwzpdOpOPToZGxgmbZM4A21NU1PyC4-z-QHcxyBiZbbQ/viewform?usp=sf_link. 

Thanks!

RSO Executive Board

Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,

I’m pleased to announce that Dr. Lawrence O. Picus will be installed this fall as the Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration. He will continue as associate dean for research and faculty affairs.

An endowed chair is one of the greatest honors that can be bestowed upon an individual in the academic community. It is awarded to a scholar who demonstrates the highest level of excellence in leadership and research in his or her area of study.

Dr. Picus will be the second holder of this positon, following Dr. Guilbert Hentschke, who served as dean of USC Rossier (1988–2000) prior to becoming the Cooper Chair in 2003.

The endowment was established from a gift in 2001. Richard and Mary Catherine Cooper were longtime educators in Los Angeles, Richard serving as a teacher, coach, principal and area superintendent, and Mary Catherine as a first grade teacher in the Pasadena Unified School District as well as a bilingual teacher in LAUSD. Richard, a two-time Rossier alumnus, died in 2016.

Dr. Picus is one of the nation’s foremost experts on school finance equity and adequacy and has made a number of important contributions to our understanding of efficiency and productivity in the provision of educational programs for P­–12 school children.

He is the co-developer, along with Allan Odden, of the Evidence-Based Model of school finance adequacy. This model, which is used to estimate the amount of funding needed to help all children meet state performance standards, has been used in over 20 states and is the most widely used approach for estimating school finance adequacy. He is co-author, again with Dr. Odden, of School Finance: A Policy Perspective, 5^th edition, the leading textbook in the field of school finance.

Among his other books are In Search of More Productive Schools: A Guide to Resource Allocation in Education; Developing Community Empowered Schools; and Principles of School Business Administration. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and consults extensively on school finance issues with states and local school districts.

Dr. Picus is past-president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy and was the president of EdSource, where he was a member of the board of directors for 14 years.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Picus.

Sincerely,

Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D.

Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean

USC Rossier School of Education

Waite Phillips Hall

Los Angeles, CA  90089-0031

Asst: hardison@usc.edu

213.740.5756 (office)

213.821.2158 (fax)

Hello Trojans,

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Now that we are approximately midway through the Spring Semester, we want to gather feedback on your courses so that we can make adjustments (if necessary) to improve your learning experience while the semester is still in progress.  You will also have an opportunity to provide final thoughts at the conclusion of this semester.

We encourage you to provide detailed comments. While individual responses will remain confidential, please note that feedback and comments on mid-semester course evaluations will be shared in aggregate with the faculty course lead for each class so that they may provide feedback to instructors.

To complete the evaluation, click on the anonymous survey link below. We ask that you complete a survey for each of the classes in which you are enrolled. The survey will remain open until Friday March 2 at 5pm PST.

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