September 29, 2006

A Southern Cal Program Courts Minority Professors

By ALVIN P. SANOFF

When C.L. Max Nikias became the provost of the University of Southern California last year, the WISE program was very much on his mind. Mr. Nikias had moved into the provost's job from the deanship of USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, where he saw that the program — Women in Science and Engineering — was making a significant difference in the recruitment of women.

Soon after becoming provost, Mr. Nikias began a universitywide effort to diversify the faculty by

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