{"id":323639,"date":"2026-05-19T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:46:07","slug":"usc-provost-andrew-guzman-to-step-down-return-to-gould-faculty-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323639\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Provost Andrew Guzman to step down, return to Gould faculty \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Guzman will step down from his role as USC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, the university announced in a campus-wide email Tuesday morning from President Beong-Soo Kim.<\/p>\n

Guzman will return to the faculty at the USC Gould School of Law, where he previously served as dean, professor of law and political science and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law beginning in 2015. He will continue serving as provost until the university appoints his successor.<\/p>\n

Guzman assumed the role in July 2023. According to Kim\u2019s email, he played a \u201ccritical role\u201d in establishing USC\u2019s Capital Campus in Washington D.C. Kim also referenced Guzman\u2019s involvement in expanding summer course offerings for undergraduates, establishing the Provost-Senate Joint Task Force on Academic Freedom and Responsibility and instituting the digital textbook program, among other accomplishments.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, the Academic Senate voted to censure Guzman<\/a>, as well as former university President Carol Folt. The Senate cited \u201cwidespread dissatisfaction and concern\u201d among faculty following the university\u2019s response to campus events related to conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The search for a new provost has already begun, according to Kim\u2019s email, which said he will share details on the process soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Guzman will step down from his role as USC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,44610,3533],"class_list":["post-323639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-provost","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}