Making Progress
USC’s Sustainability, Literacy, Behavior and Cultural Survey
First administered in April 2022, this survey helps to inform sustainability engagement and education programs at USC and to establish a baseline for measuring progress towards Assignment: Earth engagement goals.
Key Reports & Data
Assignment: Earth Dashboard
USC Earns Gold Rating from the
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)
In February 2024, USC earned a prestigious STARS Gold rating from AASHE, the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for universities to measure their sustainability performance. The assessment encompasses a multitude of sustainability data points from across USC. It helps to build a stronger campus sustainability community, creates incentives for improvement, and facilitates information sharing about higher education sustainability practices and performance.
This achievement comes a year earlier than our Assignment: Earth goal, yet another sign of USC’s rapid transformation towards sustainability leadership.
For more information on STARS and AASHE, visit AASHE.org.
AI and Sustainability at USC
At USC, we’re preparing Trojans to navigate and contribute to an AI-powered world.
Rather than thinking about AI as “good” or “bad,” USC offers Trojans ways to navigate and leverage AI sustainably by staying informed of AI developments, managing the footprint of their AI usage, contributing to the advancement of more sustainable AI and applying AI for sustainable initiatives and education.
Explore how we are incorporating Assignment: Earth, USC’s sustainability framework, into the responsible use of AI.
