On Monday, the University of California announced that its newest professor — and the Thornton School of Music’s first scholar in residence — is Grammy-winning artist Solange Knowles. If you’re wondering what that means, the Los Angeles Times reports that for the next three years Solange will teach a course, host student workshops, and help faculty develop program offerings in music curation. I’m sure every USC frat boy with a budding DJ career could benefit from this.

But that’s not all a scholar in residence does. Solange will join as the second member of the Dean’s Creative Vanguard Program, a “wide-ranging group of distinguished music artists and creative leaders.” Artist and producer Raphael Saadiq, with whom Solange and Beyoncé have both collaborated, joined as the first in Dece

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