Temple University

Temple University

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Motto	Perseverantia Vincit ("Perseverance Conquers")
Type	State-related
Established	1884
Endowment	$210 million
President	Dr. Ann Weaver Hart
Academic staff	1,411 part time; 1,709 full time
Students	36,915 (Fall 2009)
Undergraduates	26,618 (Fall 2009)
Postgraduates	9,649 (Fall 2009)
Location	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
Campus	Urban
Colors	Cherry and White
Nickname	Owls
Mascot	Hooter the Owl
Website	www.temple.edu

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally founded in 1884 as by Dr. Russell Conwell. Temple University is among the nation’s largest providers of professional education (law, medicine, podiatric medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, architecture) and prepares the largest body of professional practitioners in Pennsylvania, offering over 300 academic degree programs at seven campuses and sites in Pennsylvania and its international campuses in Rome, Tokyo, and London.

Temple University is currently one of Pennsylvania 's three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Temple and the university's various colleges are consistently ranked among the top programs in the nation with comprehensive curricula and nationally recognized research programs. It is the 26th largest university in the United States and has over 400 sponsored programs receiving external support from federal, state and local governments, industry, and private non-profit organizations.

History

• Temple University History
• Turn of the Century Sketch.
  Turn of the Century Sketch.
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  Postcard depicting the original Baptist Temple and Dr. Russell Conwell.
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  President Harry S. Truman visits Temple University.
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  Martin Luther King, Jr. lecturing at Temple University.

Beginnings

Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, a Yale-educated Boston lawyer, orator, and ordained Baptist minister, who had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Conwell came to Philadelphia in 1882 to lead the Grace Baptist Church while he began tutoring working class citizens late at night to accommodate their work schedules. These students, later dubbed "night owls," were taught in the basement of Conwell's Baptist Temple, hence where the University receives its name. The Grace Baptist Church quickly grew popular within the North Philadelphia area. A temporary board of trustees was created to handle the rapidly growing formalities associated with the church's programs. When the board conducted its first meeting they named Russell H. Conwell president of “The Temple College.” Within the coming months, Grace Baptist Church appointed a new board of trustees, printed official admissions files, and issued stock to raise funds for new teaching facilities. Regardless of whether they had the resources to support the school, Conwell’s desire was “to give education to those who were unable to get it through the usual channels”.

Philadelphia granted a charter in 1888 to establish “The Temple College of Philadelphia”, but the city refused to grant authority to award academic degrees. By 1888, the enrollment of the college was nearly 600. It was in 1907 that Temple College revised its institutional status and incorporated as a university. Legal recognition as a university enhanced Temple in noticeable ways including its reputation, professional and graduate programs, overall enrollment, and financial support.

Over time, Temple expanded: Samaritan Hospital was founded, a Medical School was added, and Temple merged with the Philadelphia Dental College. After the merger, Temple officially reincorporated as Temple University on December 12th, 1907.

Temple today

Today, Temple is a state-related university, meaning it receives public funds and offers reduced tuition for Pennsylvania residents but is under independent control. This differs from the schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and is a status shared only with the University of Pittsburgh and the historically black Lincoln University. Pennsylvania State University is similarly a state-related university, although it is also a land-grant university, putting it in a slightly different category. Usually, tuition at state-related universities is higher than the tuition at the PASSHE schools due to the independence of the institution.

Schools and colleges

Temple University has over 300 degree programs from 17 schools and colleges and 4 professional schools. Bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional programs are offered through the following academic units:

Name of College	Dean
Temple University School of Environmental Design	Theresa Soufas, Ph.D.
Tyler School of Art	Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. (Interim Dean)
Fox School of Business at Temple University	M. Moshe Porat, M.B.A., Ph.D.
The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry	Amid I. Ismail, B.D.S., M.P.H., M.B.A, Dr.P.H
Temple University College of Education	C. Kent McGuire, Ph.D.
Temple University College of Engineering	Keya Sadeghipour, Ph.D.
College of Health Professions and Social Work	Michael Sitler Ed.D., ATC, FNATA
Temple University Beasley School of Law	Joanne Epps, J.D.
Temple University College of Liberal Arts	Theresa Soufas, Ph.D.
Temple University School of Medicine	John M. Daly, M.D., FACS, FRCPS
Boyer College of Music and Dance	Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D.
Temple University School of Pharmacy	Peter H. Doukas, Ph.D.
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine	John Mattiacci, D.P.M.
Temple University College of Science and Technology	Hai-Lung Dai, Ph. D.
Temple University School of Tourism and Hospitality Management	M. Moshe Porat, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Temple University School of Communications and Theater	Thomas Jacobson, Ph.D (Interim Dean)

The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry, established in 1863 as the Philadelphia Dental College, is the second-oldest dental school in continuous existence in the United States and for 140 years. It has provided men and women with a strong academic and clinical background for the practice of general dentistry.

The Temple University School of Medicine opened its doors to students on September 16, 1901. As the third coeducational medical college in Pennsylvania, it began as a night and weekend teaching venture to accommodate working people. Classes were held initially in College Hall, next to Russell Herman Conwell's Baptist Temple Church, and clinical instruction was given at the Samaritan Hospital farther north on Broad Street. The original medical school numbered 20 faculty with 35 students enrolled during the first year. It remains fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. It currently employs approximately 452 full-time faculty, 73 part-time faculty and 875 staff. Each year it admits approximately 180 medical students and 24 graduate students.

Campuses

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  Temple University School of Medicine
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  Fox School of Business
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  Barrack Hall
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  The Liacouras Center

Main campus

Temple University has seven campuses and sites across the state of Pennsylvania, as well as international campuses in Rome, Tokyo, Spain, and London. The main campus is located in North Philadelphia, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the center business district of Center City, Philadelphia. The Temple University campus occupies one hundred and 5 acres (20,000 m²) of land in the center of Philadelphia with an estimated 10,000 students living on or around campus. The campus is located just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Center City Philadelphia making the arts, music, intellectual, and cultural scene of Philadelphia very attainable. Temple University Main Campus, as well as Temple University Ambler, offer a wide variety of concerts, performances, exhibits and lecture series to students and the public.

Separate campuses

• The Health Sciences Campus (HSC) is located in North Philadelphia specifically spanning Broad Street from Allegheny to Venango streets. With two hospitals (pediatrics and teaching), a pharmacy college, a nursing college and a dental college, it has a strong reputation for integrating all areas of health care into one fluent system. The medical and pharmacy schools are nationally renowned. The pharmacy school in particular is unique in its approach to education of the profession by administering courses that focus more on clinical sensibilities to prepare its students for the new roles of the pharmacist as a health care provider in the coming decades.

• The Temple University Center City (TUCC) campus is the adult education destination in Center City. Surrounded by the home offices of major national corporations and just across the street from Philadelphia City Hall and Suburban Station, TUCC is also near most of the city's cultural and entertainment resources. TUCC's serves the credit and non-credit education needs of area corporations and their employees and to provide enrichment opportunities for Philadelphia area residents.

• The Temple University Ambler (TUA) campus was originally a junior college. The Temple University Ambler Campus whose name was changed during the summer of 2009 to the School of Environmental Design, due to the campus' degree focus on Community and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Horticulture, and its specialization in environmental sustainability, now has 325 faculty and 4,600 students, offering bachelor's and master's degree programs on a 187 acre (757,000 m²) arboretum, located 13 miles (21 km) from the main campus.

• Temple University Harrisburg (TUH) is located in the heart of downtown Harrisburg, the home of Pennsylvania´s state government and capitol. The campus is located within the Strawberry Square complex, close to many state associations and businesses. Temple University Harrisburg offers degrees in education, business, and social administration.

• The Temple University Fort Washington (TUFW) campus opened in August 1997 in the Fort Washington Office Park as a graduate and professional education center and satellite location of Temple University Ambler. The campus offers graduate degrees in business, computer engineering, education, pharmacy and liberal arts. Temple University Fort Washington was designed to serve adult professional graduate students and the educational needs of businesses in the area. Temple’s graduate programs in Business (MBA); Educational Administration (EdM); and Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs (QA/RA), formerly housed at Temple University Ambler, were moved to the Fort Washington location. As a result, new and improved classroom space and computer resources became available to students at this new site.

Former campuses

• The Tyler School of Art campus, located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, was donated by Stella Elkins Tyler in the 1930s to dedicate as an art school. That campus was closed and the school relocated to the main campus in the spring semester of 2009.

Campus safety

Temple University implements one of the most comprehensive and effective college security forces in the United States. Officers on campus play a pivotal role in the prevention of crime on campus and in the neighboring North Philadelphia community. The Temple University Police department currently has 124 campus police officers, including supervisors and detectives. Each officer is a Pennsylvania-certified law enforcement officer, who receive state-mandated police recruit training at an accredited state police academy More than 600 campus security cameras help the department maintain an optimal view of the university and the surrounding community. Temple has also implemented a state of the art lighting system which utilizes over one thousand, 1000-watt metal halide lights mounted on building rooftops that mimics daylight at ground level. Temple also has a mass notification system, TU Alert. The alert system is intended for use only to alert members of the campus community to a serious campus emergency that requires immediate action.

Since mid-2008, there has been more than six shootings on or near campus involving students as well as members of the surrounding community. . The two most recent, on October 15th and 31st 2010, were only two weeks apart. The shooting on the 15th was right on campus and a man was killed directly behind a student building, and the shooting on the 20th put a 20 year old student coming from a Halloween party on 17th street, a block the University considers "safe", in critical condition. Commentaries in The Temple News, suggest some students have been critical of the university's decision not to use its mass notification system, which is designed to send text messages and emails to students, faculty and staff in the event of imminent danger. University officials have stated that the alert system is intended for use only to alert members of the campus community to a serious campus emergency that requires immediate action. A commentary published in a Temple student blog warns that overusing the system could diminish the importance and urgency of alert notifications.

Temple abroad

Temple University Japan

Temple University Japan (テンプル大学ジャパンキャンパス), is a branch campus located in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Temple University Japan is the oldest and largest campus of any foreign university in Japan, with an estimated 1,286 matriculated students, of which approximately one-half are Japanese, and one-half are either from the United States or more than 60 other countries. Of this number, 851 are undergraduates, and 435 are in graduate programs (48 MBA, 154 Law and 233 TESOL). Non-degree enrollment is about 978, and there are approximately 987 enrollments in continuing education programs.

The campus offers nine B.A., M.S.Ed., Ed.D., MBA and LL.M programs, as well as semester and year-long study abroad programs for U.S. undergraduates and law students (the latter is the first American Bar Association-accredited study abroad program in Asia). In addition, Temple University Japan has non-degree English-language, continuing adult education, and corporate education programs.

After extended negotiations involving the U.S. and Japanese governments, Temple University Japan became the first recognized foreign university campus in Japan. As a result, its credits and degrees are recognized as being equivalent to those of Japanese universities and can sponsor visas for international students. Students are also given Japanese student identification cards and can obtain student discounts on train passes, mobile phone contracts, and other items. The one remaining issue of contention between Temple University and the Japanese government is that the campus is taxed as a for-profit company, even though the main campus is a non-profit, state university. This puts a significant financial burden on Temple University Japan and its students.

Temple University Rome

• Temple University Rome offers both semester and summer study abroad programs with an option of an internship.

Since its establishment in 1966, Temple University Rome has provided students of the arts, architecture, international business and liberal arts with the opportunity to spend a semester or academic year studying in Rome. Temple University Rome also offers a six-week summer session composed of undergraduate courses. The program is open to qualified students matriculated at U.S. colleges and universities.

The Temple Rome campus is located in Rome, in the Temple's Villa Caproni, just north of Piazza del Popolo. The Villa Caproni offers living accommodations, shops and restaurants, and facilities for students. Its facilities include a 15,000-volume library – one of the largest English-language libraries in Rome, a computer center, academic classrooms, extensive art and architecture studios, an art gallery and student lounges. While studying in Rome, most students can also reside in the Medaglie D'Oro, which is in the vicinity of the Vatican.

Programs abroad

• Temple University in Oviedo, Spain, which is based at the University of Oviedo offers a spring semester program and an existing summer program.
• Temple University London in London, UK is offered through the School of Communications and Theater.
• Temple operates other summer programs in London, Dublin, and Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Academics

Temple University supports over 300 degree programs from 17 schools and colleges and 4 professional schools. The university is renowned in areas such as Business, Communications, Education, Art, Music, Science, and the Health Professions. Temple University's many various colleges are nationally ranked. Temple University has the distinction of having the Most Diverse Student Population according to the Princeton Review's 2008 list of the 371 Best Colleges and continues to hold the position. It is also regarded as one of the "Best Northeastern Colleges" and holds the position of having the 5th best entrepreneurial undergraduate program in the nation. The Princeton Review and Forbes named Temple one of the most connected campuses in the United States in their annual survey.

Business

Temple's Fox School of Business is consistently ranked among the top undergraduate and graduate business programs in the nation. Princeton Review named Temple as one of the Top 20 Most Entrepreneurial Campus in U.S. Fortune magazine named Temple as one of the top 25 universities for entrepreneurs in their America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs: 25 top programs for undergrads ranking. The Fox School of Business' undergraduate program is ranked 94th nationally by BusinessWeek while its Executive MBA program ranked in the top 20 U.S. programs by Financial Times. Other MBA offerings include the Full-time MBA (ranked top 50 among U.S. programs by The Economist), International MBA, Part-time MBA (top 50 among U.S. programs by U.S. News & World Report) and an Online MBA. The Fox School of Business is also ranked as the 55th best graduate program in the nation for business by U.S. News and World Report.

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A view of Broad Street and the original Baptist Temple

Law

Temple's Beasley School of Law had the highest pass rate in Pennsylvania for first-time exam takers on the February 2010 administration of the state's bar exam. Its pass rate was 88.24%, which is 14% higher than the state-wide pass rate of 74.23%. The 2010 version of US News & World Reports ranked the Beasley School of Law International Law program 16th best in the nation. Temple Law also kept its overall position as the second-ranked law school in Pennsylvania, and maintained its top-five national rankings in trial advocacy (2nd) and legal writing (4th). The Beasley School of Law is also currently ranked as the 72nd best Law program in the nation.

Art

U.S. World News and World Report ranked the Tyler School of Art 14th best Fine Arts program in the nation in 2008. In addition, Tyler’s graduate programs in ceramics (ranked 19th in the nation in the 2009 edition) and photography (18th) entered the national top 20 for the first time in the school’s history, joining Tyler’s longstanding top-ranked graduate programs in painting and drawing (7th), sculpture (8th) and printmaking (17th).

Communications

The Mass Media and Communication Doctoral Program at the School of Communications and Theater is rated in the top 10 in the United States by Academic Analytics as published in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Criminal justice

Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice, in the College of Liberal Arts, hosts one of the top graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Criminology. U.S. News and World Report ranks the department as the 11th best in the United States in both the 2009 and 2010 rankings of graduate programs. With over five million dollars in external research funding, the department is also nationally and internationally known for its research-active faculty. The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked Temple University's Criminal Justice department number 7 in the 2006 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index; the department subsequently rose to number 6 in the Chronicle's most recent rankings of Scholarly Productivity.

Athletics

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The Temple Owl

Main article: Temple Owls

Temple University's sports teams are the Owls: a name born from Temple's early days when it was a night school. The sports teams all participate in the NCAA's Division I and are primary members of the Atlantic Ten Conference (A-10), with the notable exception of football, which transitioned into the Mid-American Conference from being a I-A Independent. The Owls are also part of the Philadelphia Big 5, the Philadelphia-area basketball rivalry. Temple University was among the first institutions in the United States to sponsor extracurricular athletic activities for its students when both the football and basketball programs were inaugurated in 1894 under the direction of Coach Charles M. Williams.

Men's basketball

Main article: Temple Owls men's basketball

The Temple Men's basketball program is currently ranked 6th in All-Time NCAA wins with 1711, (starting the 2009/2010 season). They are in good company, with only Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Duke, and Syracuse having a higher total.

Temple is recognized as having won the first-ever National Collegiate basketball championship in 1938, under Coach James Usilton. That Owls team, which finished with a 23-2 record, won the inaugural National Invitation Tournament by routing Colorado 60-36 in the championship final. Because the NCAA Tournament was not held until the following year, Temple's NIT championship earned the Owls the first national college basketball title. During the 1950s, the Temple basketball team made two NCAA Final Four appearances (1956, 1958) under legendary Head Coach Harry Litwack. Litwack would be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame after concluding a 21-year coaching career that included 373 wins.

Head Coach John Chaney, who is also a Hall of Fame coach, won a total of 724 career games and took Temple to the NCAA tournament 17 times. His 1987-88 Owls team entered the NCAA tournament ranked #1 in the country, and he has reached the Elite Eight on five different occasions. He was consensus national coach of the year in 1988. Current NBA players Eddie Jones of the Miami Heat, Aaron McKie of the Los Angeles Lakers, Rick Brunson of the New York Knicks, and Mardy Collins of the New York Knicks continue to enhance Temple's proud basketball heritage.

On April 10, 2006, University of Pennsylvania head coach and La Salle University alumnus Fran Dunphy was named the new Temple's Men's Head Basketball coach after Chaney's retirement after the 2006 season. Dunphy had coached the Quakers for 17 straight seasons prior to the move. Dunphy and the Owls won the Atlantic-10 tournament in 2008 and won a spot in the NCAA Men's Basketball bracket. In 2009, the Owls won their second consecutive Atlantic-10 tournament, for their conference leading 8th A-10 title. On Sunday, March 14, the Owls went against the Richmond Spiders and won the A-10 tournament for the 3rd time in a row.

Temple University Liacouras Center

Women's basketball

The Women's Basketball Team was guided by head coach and three time Olympic Gold Medalist, Dawn Staley from 1999 to 2008. Under Staley's leadership, Temple earned 6 NCAA Appearances (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). Staley was named the head coach for the University of South Carolina on May 7, 2008. She is succeeded by Tonya Cardoza a former assistant coach from basketball powerhouse, the University of Connecticut. As an assistant coach, Cardoza was instrumental in leading the University of Connecticut to 5 National Championships (1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004). Cardoza was introduced as the head coach for the Temple Owls on July 1, 2008.

Student life

Resident students, totaling approximately 10,000, live mainly in the high-rise residential halls and apartment-style residences on the Main Campus in North Philadelphia. However, students also live on the Ambler and Tyler campuses. A few of Temple's oldest residence halls feature single sex floors while most newer residence halls are co-ed, with single gender bathrooms. Additionally, wellness floors have been developed to allow students who select to live there an environment for healthy living. In 2005 the Office of University Housing and Residential Life opened its technology supported "Jack Niven honors classroom" within 1300 North and South Residence Hall to assist students.

The Independence Blue Cross Student Recreation Center provides 59,000 square feet (5,500 m²) of fitness facilities. The Recreation Center is just one component of the Liacouras Center, the home court of the successful Temple basketball and various entertainment venues. In addition, the Student Pavilion, a multi-purpose, 4-court field house provides students with additional recreational space for volleyball, basketball, badminton, floor hockey, indoor soccer, tennis, golf, and much more.

More than 240 clubs and organizations provide outlets for all cultures and allow for socializing. Temple has a competitive political debate (where Temple is a member of the National Parliamentary Debate Association), community service, and more. Student-athletes compete in intercollegiate and intramural athletics.

In the Fall 2005, the University opened the Student Center Annex which included a full scale movie theater, underground multi-purpose room, game room, and computer lounge, as well as an improved meeting and office space for student groups and organizations.

Student organizations

Temple University boasts over 200 student organizations. One of the school's largest student organizations is The Temple News, Temple's community newspaper, which features nearly 200 student writers, photographers, editors and business employees, coordinated by a staff of 20. The university yearbook Templar has won the national American Collegiate press award for the past three years beginning in 2006.

Student government

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President Barack Obama addressing Temple University students

Temple Student Government, known on campus as TSG, is the representative voice of the student body, and holds regular meetings with administrators to voice student concerns. The leadership of TSG is currently Student Body President Kylie Patterson and Student Body Vice Presidents Anthony Leyro and Jon DeSantis, who together ran on a slate entitled TUAction! TSG has a fully staffed office within the Howard Gittis Student Center and holds bi-weekly Student Senate meetings.

Student media

• WRTI is a member-supported radio service of Temple University. It broadcasts on several relay radio stations throughout eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. The station's schedule is divided between classical music during the day and Real Jazz in the evening and over-night period. The Arbitron Ratings Service reports the station has the second largest audience among Philadelphia's public radio stations.
• The Temple News (TTN) is the editorially independent weekly newspaper of Temple University. It prints 8,000 copies to be distributed primarily on Temple's Main Campus every Tuesday. A staff of 25, supported by more than 150 writers, is responsible for designing, reporting and editing the 20-page paper. In 2009, the paper's staff won eight Keystone Press Awards. In November 2008, the paper's Web site, temple-news.com, was honored with the 2008 National Online Pacemaker Award, and has also won the print counterpart, a National Pacemaker Award, both awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press.

Greek life

Temple University recognizes 24 Greek Letter Organizations as part of the Temple University Greek Association. As of 2006, Temple's Greek Life community made up less than 2% of the student population but has more than doubled in population in the last year and has seen an addition of ten newly recognized organizations in the past year. The Inter Fraternal Council (IFC) at Temple University has noticed the rise in Greek participation and has decided to introduce two new fraternities and sororities to campus for the next five semesters. The current president of the Temple University Greek Association is Dan Lyons, a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi.

On May 3, 2006, Temple University Greek Association sponsored 3 awards at the First Annual Temple University Diamond Awards, These awards, voted upon annually by members of Temple Administration, currently include; Greek Man Of The Year, Greek Woman Of The Year, & Greek Chapter Of The Year.

Temple University Greek Association

IFC Inter-Fraternity Council	NPC National Panhellenic Conference	NPHC National Pan-Hellenic Council	MGC Multicultural Greek Council
Alpha Chi Rho ΑΧΡ	Alpha Epsilon Phi AEΦ	Alpha Kappa Alpha AKA	Chi Upsilon Sigma ΧΥΣ
Alpha Epsilon Pi ΑΕΠ	Delta Zeta ΔΖ	Alpha Phi Alpha ΑΦΑ	Beta Pi Phi ΒΠΦ
Alpha Kappa Lambda ΑΚΛ	Delta Phi Epsilon ΔΦE	Delta Sigma Theta ΔΣΘ	Delta Chi Psi ΔΧΨ
Alpha Tau Omega ATΩ	Phi Sigma Sigma ΦΣΣ	Kappa Alpha Psi KAΨ	Delta Kappa Delta ΔΚΔ
Kappa Delta Rho ΚΔΡ		Omega Psi Phi ΩΨΦ	Gamma Phi Sigma ΓΦΣ
Kappa Sigma ΚΣ		Phi Beta Sigma ΦΒΣ	Iota Nu Delta ΙΝΔ
Phi Kappa Theta ΦΚΘ		Zeta Phi Beta ΖΦΒ	Kappa Phi Gamma ΚΦΓ
Pi Lambda Phi ΠΛΦ			Lambda Theta Alpha ΛΘΑ
Sigma Alpha Mu ΣΑM			Lambda Theta Phi ΛΘΦ
Tau Kappa Epsilon TKE			Psi Sigma Phi ΨΣΦ
			Sigma Beta Rho ΣBP
			Alpha Sigma Rho AΣP
			Delta Phi Omega ΔΦΩ ***
			Lambda Tau Omega ΛTΩ ***

(***) These organizations are conditionally recognized by Temple University and the MGC in 2010

Residential halls and facilities

Freshman and Sophomore students have the opportunity to live in several on-campus housing units: Johnson and Hardwick Residence Halls, Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall, James S. White Residence Hall, 1940 Residence Hall, 1300 Residence Hall, Temple Towers Residence Hall, and The Edge at Avenue North.

Extensive renovations have been made to the existing Temple University dormitories to keep up with modern expectations. Since 2006, both Johnson and Hardwick Residential Halls received complete renovations of their bathrooms and also received complete room restorations. The Temple Towers Residential Hall saw the long awaited refurbishment of their student apartments with an addition of individual common areas and balconies to add more space to the student units. The final Johnson and Hardwick restorations were completed in 2010 with the final renovation of a lobby with new entry points, security stations, office space, and lounge space. Pending commonwealth budget funding, the Peabody Residential Hall is to receive upgrades to their common bathrooms in the near future.

As part of the Temple 20/20 plan, the university has plans to build a new 1700 bed three-building student mixed use residential, retail and cafeteria complex on the corner of Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue to open in the Fall 2011. This would be the first university run building since the completion of 1300 Residence Hall in 2001. The building will sit on the former site of the University Services Building which was demolished in January 2010. The current University Service offices moved to a building off the Main Campus site.

Johnson and Hardwick Halls

The Johnson and Hardwick Residence Halls are 11-floor high rise facilities that are used as the traditional residence halls on the Main Campus. The buildings house around 1,000 Temple students every year. The Louis J. Esposito Dining Center is located on the ground level of the Johnson and Hardwick Halls near the north end of Main Campus. The cafeteria is commonly referred to as J&H after the residence halls. The Esposito Dining Center is just one of two major cafeterias on campus.

Peabody Hall

The Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall is another traditionally styled dormitory on the Main Campus. In 2006, the building celebrated its 50th anniversary. Peabody Hall was originally designed as a women's residence hall with a campus cafeteria in the basement. The residence hall building structure has since undergone many renovations to better serve modern students including a study/ conference room lounge, game room, fitness center, computer lab, kitchen, and new windows and air conditioning. The Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall is also known to have been built on land that once occupied one of Russell Conwell's, Temple University's founder, original homes.

Graduate housing

Temple University graduate students may obtain housing in the Triangle Apartments on Main Campus. While the Triangle Apartment complex is the oldest of the Main Campus residential halls, the Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall is the oldest traditionally designed residential hall.

Auxiliary housing

To accommodate the growing demand for on campus housing in recent years, the university has made arrangements for auxiliary housing for students that include Presidential City Apartments, Elmira Jefferies, Sydenham Commons, Oxford Village, The Edge at Avenue North, American Campus Communities' University Village, and Kardon-Atlantic Apartments. These apartment building complexes are strictly leased to Temple students only.

The Temple Main Campus is surrounded by an array of students living within independently run, local realty housing. After freshman and sophomore years, Temple students are not guaranteed housing. Many students who do not live in these buildings live in the immediate Philadelphia area.

Temple developments

Technology

In January 2006, the university opened the TECH Center. The TECH Center is a 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m²) state-of-the-art technology facility with resources that cater to current learning styles. Designed with a variety of work spaces to enable students to work collaboratively or individually, the Tech Center is the largest of its kind in the nation. Temple also utilizes computer and distance learning equipped classrooms that are available throughout the various campuses. 85% of Temple's campus has wireless access. In 2004, the Princeton Review named Temple the fourth-most "connected campus" in the United States in the annual "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses" survey [2]. Temple has maintained its "Top 25" listing for three years in a row. Many professors at Temple use "Blackboard" -- an online learning and scheduling system that electronically posts important class information such as homework, class cancellations, and announcements. Faculty and students can receive technology assistance at Temple's Instructional Support Center. In 2003, Fox School of Business began TUCAPTURE, an automated recording & web casting system for classroom meetings. In 2006, PC Magazine named Temple as the 15th Most Wired College in America, quoting CEO Tim O' Rourke about TUCAPTURE, attendance, and note taking. In 2008, TUCAPTURE featured 40 classroom and mobile devices internationally and offers more than 900,000 minutes of classroom audio, visuals, video, and handwriting, delivered automatically via email, podcast, webcast, RSS, and Blackboard.

Sustainability

One of Hart’s first directives as president of Temple University was to establish a Sustainability Task Force, composed of students, faculty and staff, to study best-practices in large, urban universities and recommend actions the university could take to create a sustainable campus culture. As an outgrowth of the task forces’ recommendations, the Office of Sustainability was established on July 1, 2008, as a central resource focusing on four key areas: operations, academics, research, and outreach & engagement.

The Ambler campus’ ‘Ambler College’, which is home to the Community and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Horticulture Departments, has changed their name in 2009 to the School of Environmental Design, due to the campus’ focus on environmental sustainability. The campus is also home to the Center for Sustainable Communities, a Sustainability based research center.

Thus far, the university has: enacted policies that include purchasing from green vendors and conserving water and energy across campus; offered 46 undergraduate courses, 22 graduate courses and 12 General Education courses focusing on the environment and sustainability; set in place programs to administer grants and offer incentives for any research related to the environment or sustainability; and offered programs to help create a green culture, both at Temple and beyond.

Temple 20/20

Temple 20/20, a new framework to guide development at Temple’s main campus, will make Broad Street the center point of the university and include a new library for students and the community; a large new green space; a new science building and a high rise residence hall. Although the full plan has not been unveiled, highlights were recently reported by Philadelphia media. The plan looks to expand Temple's structure of modernization exponentially, as well as improve the North Philadelphia community.

In accordance with the 20/20 plan, Temple wants to improve its most valuable piece of property, Broad Street. Improvements to Broad Street will likely include a new library, a signature building and more shopping and dining areas. Parking features will be expanded vertically with multi-level parking garages, instead of taking up valuable property space. Another sure renovation, is the transformation of the Baptist Temple into a 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m²) “theater-in-the-round-style” concert hall, which will be home to Temple’s orchestra and choir.

Under the plan, the 105-acre (0.42 km²) campus will remain the same size, with buildings growing vertically or going in place of current buildings. To make the campus more open to the surrounding community, iron fencing will be removed from the boundaries. According to Temple University president, Ann Weaver Hart, the plan is designed to open up the campus; bring students out onto Broad Street and contribute to the development of North Philadelphia and the city itself.

Traditions and monuments

The Temple "T"

Temple's "T" logo

The traditional symbol of the Temple University is the Temple "T". This modern symbol of the university was created through the work of Temple faculty and students. Early in his administration, President Peter J. Liacouras initiated a contest to choose a new symbol to represent the University. The winner was this particular version of a representational "T", which was created by Kristine Herrick at the Temple University Tyler School of Art. The symbol was adopted in 1983.

The owl

The owl is the symbol and mascot for Temple University and has been since its founding in 1888. Temple was the first school in the United States to adopt the owl as its symbol. The owl, a nocturnal hunter, was initially adopted as a symbol for Temple University because began as a night school for ambitious young people of limited means. Russell Conwell encouraged these students with the remark: "The owl of the night makes the eagle of the day."

Fight song

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various Temple University events, such as commencement, convocation, and athletic events, is the Temple University Fight Song.

"T for Temple U, U-niversity. Fight, Fight Fight! for the Cherry and the White, for the Cherry and the White - Fight, Fight Fight!"

Alumni Circle Owl

The Bell Tower

The Bell Tower Plaza is located in the center of the Main Campus between Paley Library and Beury Hall. The plaza is a popular student hangout and is the site of the Temple Bell Tower. The Bell Tower serves as a central meeting place for students and is often the location for official events such as Spring Fling, protests, promotions, speeches, political campaigning, and charity drives by student organizations. In warm weather, many students crowd onto the surrounding grass area, being the largest "green space" on the urban campus. A live web cam stream of the plaza is available online.

Alumni Circle

The Alumni Circle is located near the Founder's Garden on Liacouras Walk. The monument's structure is uniquely designed to reflect sound, most notably by reverberating a spoken voice. It was donated by a class and is a common stop for tours of campus and a popular site visited by alumni.

Johnny Ring Garden

Located off the faculty staff dining 'Diamond Club' this is a green area on campus commonly used for wedding photos and celebrates the history of Russell Conwell and Johnny Ring.

Founders Garden

The Founders Garden serves as the burial site for Dr. Russell Conwell. His legacy for the founding and for his 38-year presidency at Temple is celebrated in the garden. Conwell, a former Yale student, Civil War captain, Boston lawyer, and Philadelphia minister, utilized Temple as his vehicle to provide working class Philadelphians the opportunity for higher education. It has been estimated that by the time Conwell died at age 82 he was responsible for over 100,000 men and women pursuing higher education. Conwell used his income from his famous “Acres of Diamonds” speech to provide funding for Temple. The garden is located directly behind the Alumni Circle, off of Liacouras Walk. A bust of Conwell was constructed in the garden marking the site of the burial.

Alumni

Main article: List of Temple University people

There are 260,000 living Temple alumni in all 50 states and 145 countries.

Bill Cosby

Notable alumni include:

• Steven A.Vilardi: Vice President PNC Financial Services
• Fred Mascherino: Musician
• Tony Bruno: Sports radio talk show host for fox sports radio.
• Nikoloz Gilauri: Prime Minister of Georgia
• Ben Bova: science fiction author,
• Tony Campolo: pastor, author, sociologist,
• David Brenner: comedian and producer,
• Richard Brooks: filmmaker,
• Rick Brunson: NBA player,
• Henry Burris: Canadian football player,
• Bill Cosby: Comedian, actor
• Edwin Duing Eshleman: former Republican congressman,
• Vincent Fumo: Democratic state senator,
• Daryl Hall: musician,
• Tamron Hall: dayside anchor for MSNBC,
• Lois Hamilton: actress,
• Trenton Doyle Hancock: artist,
• Donniel Hartman: Israeli rabbi
• Evil Jared Hasselhoff: musician,
• Tim Heidecker: comedian,
• Natalie Hinderas: professor, pianist and composer,
• Joe Hoeffel: former Democratic congressman,
• Eddie Jones: NBA player,
• Paul E. Kanjorski: Democratic congressman,
• Mark Levin: Nationally Syndicated Conservative Talk Radio Host
• Bill McGlaughlin: composer, conductor, classical music radio host,
• Tom McHale: novelist,
• Aaron McKie: NBA player,
• Bill Mensch: computer scientist and electrical engineer,
• Robert K. Merton: sociologist, scholar,
• Mary Lou Metzger: The Lawrence Welk Show musical performer and host of current PBS specials,
• Kunal Nayyar: actor, comedian,
• John Oates: musician,
• Eric Owens (bass-baritone): opera singer,
• Ronn Owens: radio talk show host,
• James Parrish: football player,
• Jimmy Pop: musician,
• Jeffrey Robinson: author,
• Bob Saget: comedian,
• Jim Saxton: former Republican congressman,
• Ed Sciaky: disc jockey,
• Jill Scott: singer,
• Tom Sizemore: actor,
• Stephen Starr: restauranteer,
• John F. Street: Philadelphia mayor,
• Dan Trachtenberg: co-host of The Totally Rad Show,
• Eric Wareheim: comedian,
• Michael E. Busch: Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates,
• Shirley Tilghman: current president of Princeton University,
• Kathryn Morris: actress,
• Hwang Young-Min: Korean-American ballad singer, currently residing in South Korea,
• Randall "Tex" Cobb: boxer and actor,
• Ralph Rucci: fashion designer,
• Jesse Williams: Actor
• Cosmo Orlando: Philanthropist, Co-Host of A Van In Orlando

Historical

On April 2, 1965, Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada and recipient of the Nobel peace prize was awarded the Temple University World Peace Prize. During his acceptance speech Pearson criticised American bombing of Vietnam,

"There are many factors which I am not in a position to weigh. But there does appear to be at least a possibility that a suspension of such air strikes against North Vietnam, at the right time, might provide the Hanoi [communists] authorities with an opportunity, if they wish to take it, to inject some flexibility into their policy without appearing to do so as the direct result of military pressure"

The seemingly harmless speech infuriated former President Lyndon B. Johnson who, the next day at Camp David, took Pearson out onto the terrace and began "laying into [Pearson] in no uncertain fashion". Pearson later apologized for the speech.

Temple in pop culture

• On July 20, 2010, Temple University was used as a backdrop for an episode of the television show Friday Night Lights... the name and images of the university were changed to Braemore College and instead of a Temple "T," they used a "B".

• Reverend Al Sharpton's daughter attended Temple and lived in Johnson/ Hardwick residence hall during her first year. During her Sharpton's 2004 nomination campaign for the Democratic primary election, he gave an impromptu speech in the former 'Social Lounge' of Johnson/ Hardwick Halls.

• President Jimmy Carter visited Temple University and once spent the night in Johnson/ Hardwick residence hall along with secret service prior to partaking in a Habitat for Humanity work project.

• In fiction: Toby Flenderson from the NBC comedy The Office holds a degree in social work from Temple.

• In fiction: Lance Sweets from the FOX drama Bones holds a masters degree in abnormal psychology from Temple University

• In fiction: Tracy Jordan from the NBC comedy 30 Rock mentions getting his speech at Temple University getting canceled because Bill Cosby and the Black Crusaders are after him in the episode Cleveland (30 Rock)

External links

• Official University Site
• Official Temple Athletics Site
• The true story of the Temple University 57 cent church