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USC President Carol Folt gave posthumous honorary degrees to Japanese American students who were removed from the West Coast during World War II.
USC President Carol Folt gave posthumous honorary degrees to Japanese American students who were removed from the West Coast during World War II.
Jonathan Kaji, former president of the Asian Pacific Alumni Association at the University of Southern California, has been pushing the school to apologize for its treatment of its Nisei students since 2007.
In a policy reversal, USC will apologize to former Japanese American students and offer them honorary degrees posthumously eight decades after impeding their efforts to complete their education.