{"id":417326,"date":"2010-03-11T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a926f61f970b"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:45:49","slug":"usc-provost-c-l-max-nikias-to-succeed-steven-sample-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417326","title":{"rendered":"USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias to succeed Steven Sample as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f8de9e0970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nikias_new_275\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f8de9e0970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f8de9e0970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Nikias_new_275\"><\/img><\/a> C.L. Max Nikias, USC\u2019s provost and second-in-command, will become its next president, succeeding Steven B. Sample on August 3 at the helm of the 34,000-student university in Los Angeles, school officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nikias, 57, a Cypriot-born engineer, was long mentioned as the favorite inside candidate to become USC\u2019s 11th president, so much so that some trustees reportedly did not even want to conduct a national search for outside candidates. But USC trustees went ahead with that search, interviewing 75 other educators before returning to a man well-known and well-liked on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is a testament to Max Nikias\u2019 abilities that, from such an impressive group of educators, he was unanimously recommended by the advisory committee,&quot; Edward P. Roski Jr., chairman of USC\u2019s trustees, said in a statement. &quot;During his 19 years as a faculty member and administrator at USC, he has provided distinguished service to the university in a variety of roles. He is a remarkable and inspiring leader, a brilliant scholar, and the best possible person to lead our university forward.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Nikias, former dean of USC\u2019s engineering school, will have big shoes to fill. Sample has been president since 1991, with a longevity that is rare in American academia, and helped elevate the university to new peaks of academic prestige, financial resources and civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This incredible, wide-ranging university represents an electric environment, one remarkably skilled at producing new ideas and new leaders to strengthen our society,&quot; Nikias said in a statement issued Thursday. &quot;Moving USC forward, and accelerating its breathtaking momentum, strikes me as the most rewarding endeavor in American higher education today.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Gordon <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <span lang=\"EN\">USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias <\/span><\/em><em><span lang=\"EN\">will become the school<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN\">\u2019<\/span><em><span lang=\"EN\">s next president in August. Credit: USC<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.L. Max Nikias, USC\u2019s provost and second-in-command, will become its next president, succeeding Steven B. Sample on August 3 at the helm of the 34,000-student university in Los Angeles, school officials announced Thursday. Nikias, 57, a Cypriot-born engineer, was long mentioned as the favorite inside candidate to become USC\u2019s 11th president, so much so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}