Michael Quick, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, and Carol Mauch Amir, senior vice president for legal affairs and professionalism, have formally signaled their intent to retire from their positions, effective June 30, 2019, according to a letter from interim president Wanda Austin to the USC community. Dr. Quick will return to the faculty, where he is a professor of biological sciences in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
President-elect Folt and interim president Wanda Austin will work together to select their successors. For the provost position, the university will name an interim provost in the coming weeks, and identify a chair of the search committee, which will include faculty across an array of schools at USC. Searches for both positions will be national in scope and exhaustive in reach.