U.S.C.'s center for futures research

The year 1971 saw the appearance on the University of Southern California campus of the Center for Futures Research, “dedicated to research into the fundamental causes and directions of social change and the design of new policies and strategies.” Under the leadership of its director, Dr. Burt Nanus, the Center has built up a first‐rate professional staff and acquired a well‐deserved reputation as one of the most competent and dynamic futures research organizations in the country, on or off campus. In little more than three and a half years the Center has completed a range of projects, and compiled a list of publications, that would do credit to an organization twice its size.