University Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Education and Engineering
PhD, Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego
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John Brooks Slaughter is a University Professor Emeritus. He joined the USC Rossier School of Education in January 2010 as Professor of Education, with a joint appointment at the Viterbi School of Engineering. Slaughter has had a remarkably distinguished career, which began as an electrical engineer and includes leading two universities and heading the National Science Foundation (NSF) as its first African American director, among many other accomplishments.
His education research has been in the areas of higher education leadership, diversity and inclusion in higher education, underrepresented minorities in STEM, and access and affordability. In his position at Rossier and Viterbi, Slaughter looked at the intersection between engineering and education, with a focus on what has become his lifelong quest of increasing minority participation in the science and engineering fields. He was awarded the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award by President Carol Folt in April 2023.