C. L. Max Nikias

11th President of the University of Southern California

“The Destined Reign of Troy”
During Dr. Nikias’ tenure as president, USC is emerging as a global research university with an undisputed academically-elite status, due to a number of strategic initiatives that include: recruiting a cadre of transformative, world-class faculty and accelerating the expansion of the university’s academic medical enterprise; broadening USC’s international presence; dramatically improving the breadth and quality of its outstanding student body; improving the university’s infrastructure, including the development of the USC Village; and aggressively advancing the largest fundraising campaign in the history of higher education.

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Nikias and USC professor Jacob Soll talk financial accountability in high level Athens meetings
July 7, 2017 10:05 am
C. L. Max Nikias, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Jacob Soll in Greece. (Photo/Courtesy of C. L. Max Nikias)
USC Professor Jacob Soll’s master work, The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (Basic Books, 2014), cast a stark light on the financial world as national economies continued to recover from the Great Recession of a few years earlier. Now the book has been translated to Greek, and Soll presented the updated version to scholars at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Soll, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellows award (often called a MacArthur genius grant), was joined by USC President C. L. Max…
USC President Nikias receives honorary degree from Scottish university
June 27, 2017 12:59 pm
C. L. Max Nikias, President of University of Southern California, receives an honorary degree from University of Strathclyde; June 23rd, 2017. (Photo/Courtesy of Graeme Fleming)
USC President C. L. Max Nikias and his wife, Niki C. Nikias, traveled to Scotland, where he was made an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The ceremony, which recognized Nikias’ “dynamic leadership in higher education,” took place June 23 in the university’s Barony Hall. Upon his arrival on campus, Nikias delivered a keynote lecture to faculty and university leaders on timeless leadership lessons from the classics, especially from theorist-practitioners like Xenophon. In accepting his degree the following day, Nikias spoke in…
East L.A. biotech park could create ‘explosion of employment’
June 16, 2017 10:49 am
President C. L. Max Nikias joins East LA Community leaders at USC's Business of Biotech Summit.
The competition for biotech investment is escalating, and USC President C. L. Max Nikias wants to make sure Los Angeles emerges a winner. “Los Angeles finds itself falling behind in the race for the future of this increasingly important industry,” Nikias told attendees of USC’s Business of Biotech event, which recently brought together community, business and university leaders. The USC leader envisions a biotechnology park in east Los Angeles on the Health Sciences Campus. The development could provide thousands of construction and biotech jobs. “We will see…