enhance what you had as a kid. That’s the joy of
understanding both disciplines.”
Erica Muhl, the dean of the USC Iovine and
Young Academy, said the university is evolving
with the times.
“The world is becoming more complex,” Muhl
said. “That means problems are becoming more
complex. This school aims to find and nurture
those thinkers that can address these problems
from multiple perspectives with a broad array
of tools and methodologies. This allows them
to cross those disciplines as native, rather than
having to think across them.”
Sydney Loew, 19, is a student at the academy
with the hopes of someday running her own
graphic design firm. She called Iovine and Dr.
Dre “incredible inspirations.”
“We absolutely love having them behind the
program,” she said. “And all the time people are
just caught off guard by, ‘Wow your school is
founded by Jimmy and Dre.’ And still, I have to
pinch myself sometimes. It’s really incredible to
just have them as people who support us and
see that we can do good in the world.”
Along with their initiative at USC, Dr. Dre and
Iovine want to expand their efforts. They are
planning to build a new high school in the Los
Angeles area near the college.
“If we can catch these kids earlier, that would
be even better,” Iovine said. “Most high school
kids don’t think high school is relevant in their
lives. Dre and I understand that, speaking to
young kids. If you give a student the advantage
to have multiple disciplines, I can tell you as an
employer, I’d desperately need that kid. We want
other people to copy us.”
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