In his 2015 addresses to faculty and staff, USC President C. L. Max Nikias delivered a full-throated defense of the research university.
Speaking Feb. 11 to faculty at Town & Gown, he responded to a recent wave of criticism in the media over ballooning tuition, crushing student debt and uncertainty about the market value of a college education.
Nikias acknowledged that these are legitimate concerns.
“We owe it to ourselves and to our nation to examine ourselves honestly,” he said, setting himself the goal of being “as complete and objective as possible.”
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