EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Commencements starting Friday at USC will look different this year, but new graduates and parents will agree the tassel is worth the hassle. As the university ...

LOS ANGELES -- Among the students who donned their cap and gown and walked in the University of Southern California's commencement ceremony last week was 78-year-old Robert Kroener. "It has been a ...

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Fireworks capped the "Trojan Family Graduate Celebration" at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which was planned after the traditional main-stage ceremony at Alumni Park was canceled. (Gina Ferazzi / Los ...

As thousands of families poured into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for USC's main-stage commencement on Thursday night, the scene had the feel of the usual collegiate event held there: a football ...

USC announced Thursday that in person-commencement ceremonies will be held for the classes of 2020 and 2021 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum over a nearly two-week span in May, but only students ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...