USC taps Beong-Soo Kim to steer through AI era and fiscal crunch
USC named interim president Beong-Soo Kim as its 13th president after seven months at the helm, during which he steered the university through a $200 million budget deficit, thousands of layoffs, and pressures from federal policy, AI, and campus labor tensions, with the board calling him a “next generation” leader who can guide USC through a rapidly changing higher‑education landscape.