Temple University is a comprehensive
public research universityA public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr.
Russell ConwellRussell Herman Conwell was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds...
, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education (
lawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
,
medicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, podiatric medicine,
pharmacyPharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
,
dentistryDentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
,
architectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
) and prepares the largest body of professional practitioners in Pennsylvania, offering over 300 academic degree programs at seven campuses and sites in
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
and its international campuses in
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
,
Tokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, and
LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. It is the 26th largest university in the United States with more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Temple is one of Pennsylvania's state-related universities, meaning that it receives state funds but is independently operated. It shares this status with the
Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
, the
University of PittsburghThe University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, and
Lincoln UniversityLincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. It is located near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies in the City of Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides...
.
Beginnings
Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, a
YaleRapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
-educated
BostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
lawyer, orator, and ordained
BaptistBaptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
minister, who had served in the
Union ArmyThe Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
during the
American Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. Conwell came to Pennsylvania 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”.
Billings granted a charter in 1888 to establish “The Temple College of Billings”, 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 Billings Dental College. After the merger, Temple officially reincorporated as Temple University on December 12, 1907.
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 schools and colleges:
| Name of College |
Dean |
| Temple University School of Environmental Design |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Tyler School of Art The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Fox School of Business at Temple University The Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University. Located in Philadelphia, the Fox School offers several Master of Business Administration programs ; several other master's degree programs; and several Ph.D...
|
M. Moshe Porat, M.B.A., Ph.D. |
| The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry |
Amid I. Ismail, B.D.S., M.B.A, Dr.P.H |
| Temple University College of Education |
James Earl Davis, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Temple University College of Engineering A college of engineering generally refers to an institute which offers engineering course at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level. Either these institutes are part of a university or are affiliated to some university. The duration of the undergraduate course is four to five years depending...
|
Keya Sadeghipour, Ph.D. |
| College of Health Professions and Social Work |
Michael Sitler Ed.D., ATC, FNATA (Interim Dean) |
Temple University Beasley School of LawThe Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Temple University. Informally referred to as Temple Law School, the school is located at the Main Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Temple University James E...
|
Joanne Epps, J.D. |
| Temple University College of Liberal Arts |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Medicine The Temple University School of Medicine , located on the Health Science Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, is one of 7 schools of medicine in Pennsylvania conferring the doctor of medicine degree. It also confers the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in biomedical sciences.The 2011 U.S...
|
Larry R. Kaiser, M.D., FACS |
| Boyer College of Music and Dance The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The college includes the Boyer College of Music, founded in 1962, and the Temple...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Pharmacy |
Peter H. Doukas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine The Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine is a podiatric medical school part of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school is located at 8th and Race Streets in downtown Philadelphia. The school was founded in 1963 as the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine...
|
John Mattiacci, D.P.M. |
| Temple University College of Science and Technology Temple University's College of Science and Technology houses the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer & Information Sciences, Earth & Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics. It is one of the largest schools or colleges of its kind in the Philadelphia region with more than 180...
|
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) |
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, PhiladelphiaCenter City, or Downtown Philadelphia includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2005, its population of over 88,000 made it the third most populous downtown in the United States, after New York City's and Chicago's...
. The Temple University campus occupies 105 acres (424,920.3 m²) of land in the center of Philadelphia with an estimated 12,000 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, clubs, exhibits and lecture series to students and the public.
The Temple University graduate and family housing unit is the Triangle Apartment Complex, located on the main campus. The complex consists of converted brownstones. Each building has five units. Residents are zoned to the
School District of PhiladelphiaThe School District of Philadelphia is a school district based in the School District of Philadelphia Education Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that includes all public schools in the city of Philadelphia. Established in 1818, it is the eighth largest school district in the nation.The School...
. The complex is zoned to Tanner Duckrey School (K-8) and
Simon Gratz High SchoolSimon Gratz High School is a secondary school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. An inner-city school, it is perhaps best-known for its famous alumni . Originally operated as a public school by the School District of Philadelphia, Gratz has been run as a charter school by Mastery Charter...
. In 2010 the university proposed banning children from living in the Triangle complex. The university later rescinded the plan.
Separate campuses
The
Health Sciences Campus (HSC) is located in North Philadelphia specifically spanning Broad Street from Allegheny to Venango streets and encompassing an academic medical center, a school of medicine, school of pharmacy, school of dentistry and college of health professions and social work.
Temple University Center City
The
Temple University AmblerTemple University Ambler is the suburban campus of Temple University. The Ambler campus is located 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania....
(TUA) campus was originally a
junior collegeThe term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
. 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)
arboretumAn arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
, located 13 miles (20.9 km) from the main campus.
Temple University Harrisburg (TUH)
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 ArtThe Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
campus, located in
Elkins Park, PennsylvaniaElkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the suburbs of Philadelphia, roughly from Center City, Philadelphia.-Points of interest:...
, 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
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.
Temple University Japan
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Temple University is a comprehensive
public research universityA public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr.
Russell ConwellRussell Herman Conwell was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds...
, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education (
lawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
,
medicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, podiatric medicine,
pharmacyPharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
,
dentistryDentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
,
architectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
) and prepares the largest body of professional practitioners in Pennsylvania, offering over 300 academic degree programs at seven campuses and sites in
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
and its international campuses in
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
,
Tokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, and
LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. It is the 26th largest university in the United States with more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Temple is one of Pennsylvania's state-related universities, meaning that it receives state funds but is independently operated. It shares this status with the
Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
, the
University of PittsburghThe University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, and
Lincoln UniversityLincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. It is located near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies in the City of Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides...
.
Beginnings
Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, a
YaleRapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
-educated
BostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
lawyer, orator, and ordained
BaptistBaptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
minister, who had served in the
Union ArmyThe Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
during the
American Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. Conwell came to Pennsylvania 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”.
Billings granted a charter in 1888 to establish “The Temple College of Billings”, 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 Billings Dental College. After the merger, Temple officially reincorporated as Temple University on December 12, 1907.
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 schools and colleges:
| Name of College |
Dean |
| Temple University School of Environmental Design |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Tyler School of Art The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Fox School of Business at Temple University The Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University. Located in Philadelphia, the Fox School offers several Master of Business Administration programs ; several other master's degree programs; and several Ph.D...
|
M. Moshe Porat, M.B.A., Ph.D. |
| The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry |
Amid I. Ismail, B.D.S., M.B.A, Dr.P.H |
| Temple University College of Education |
James Earl Davis, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Temple University College of Engineering A college of engineering generally refers to an institute which offers engineering course at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level. Either these institutes are part of a university or are affiliated to some university. The duration of the undergraduate course is four to five years depending...
|
Keya Sadeghipour, Ph.D. |
| College of Health Professions and Social Work |
Michael Sitler Ed.D., ATC, FNATA (Interim Dean) |
Temple University Beasley School of LawThe Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Temple University. Informally referred to as Temple Law School, the school is located at the Main Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Temple University James E...
|
Joanne Epps, J.D. |
| Temple University College of Liberal Arts |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Medicine The Temple University School of Medicine , located on the Health Science Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, is one of 7 schools of medicine in Pennsylvania conferring the doctor of medicine degree. It also confers the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in biomedical sciences.The 2011 U.S...
|
Larry R. Kaiser, M.D., FACS |
| Boyer College of Music and Dance The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The college includes the Boyer College of Music, founded in 1962, and the Temple...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Pharmacy |
Peter H. Doukas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine The Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine is a podiatric medical school part of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school is located at 8th and Race Streets in downtown Philadelphia. The school was founded in 1963 as the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine...
|
John Mattiacci, D.P.M. |
| Temple University College of Science and Technology Temple University's College of Science and Technology houses the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer & Information Sciences, Earth & Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics. It is one of the largest schools or colleges of its kind in the Philadelphia region with more than 180...
|
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) |
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, PhiladelphiaCenter City, or Downtown Philadelphia includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2005, its population of over 88,000 made it the third most populous downtown in the United States, after New York City's and Chicago's...
. The Temple University campus occupies 105 acres (424,920.3 m²) of land in the center of Philadelphia with an estimated 12,000 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, clubs, exhibits and lecture series to students and the public.
The Temple University graduate and family housing unit is the Triangle Apartment Complex, located on the main campus. The complex consists of converted brownstones. Each building has five units. Residents are zoned to the
School District of PhiladelphiaThe School District of Philadelphia is a school district based in the School District of Philadelphia Education Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that includes all public schools in the city of Philadelphia. Established in 1818, it is the eighth largest school district in the nation.The School...
. The complex is zoned to Tanner Duckrey School (K-8) and
Simon Gratz High SchoolSimon Gratz High School is a secondary school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. An inner-city school, it is perhaps best-known for its famous alumni . Originally operated as a public school by the School District of Philadelphia, Gratz has been run as a charter school by Mastery Charter...
. In 2010 the university proposed banning children from living in the Triangle complex. The university later rescinded the plan.
Separate campuses
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The
Health Sciences Campus (HSC) is located in North Philadelphia specifically spanning Broad Street from Allegheny to Venango streets and encompassing an academic medical center, a school of medicine, school of pharmacy, school of dentistry and college of health professions and social work.
Temple University Center City
The
Temple University AmblerTemple University Ambler is the suburban campus of Temple University. The Ambler campus is located 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania....
(TUA) campus was originally a
junior collegeThe term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
. 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)
arboretumAn arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
, located 13 miles (20.9 km) from the main campus.
Temple University Harrisburg (TUH)
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.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}}
Former campuses
The
Tyler School of ArtThe Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
campus, located in
Elkins Park, PennsylvaniaElkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the suburbs of Philadelphia, roughly from Center City, Philadelphia.-Points of interest:...
, 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
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.
Temple University Japan
{{multiple issues|essay-like=March 2011|original research=March 2011|refimprove=March 2011|cleanup-link rot = August 2011}}
Temple University is a comprehensive
public research universityA public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr.
Russell ConwellRussell Herman Conwell was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds...
, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education (
lawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
,
medicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, podiatric medicine,
pharmacyPharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
,
dentistryDentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
,
architectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
) and prepares the largest body of professional practitioners in Pennsylvania, offering over 300 academic degree programs at seven campuses and sites in
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and its international campuses in
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,
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, and
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. It is the 26th largest university in the United States with more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Temple is one of Pennsylvania's state-related universities, meaning that it receives state funds but is independently operated. It shares this status with the
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, the
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, and
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.
Beginnings
Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, a
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-educated
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lawyer, orator, and ordained
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minister, who had served in the
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during the
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. Conwell came to Pennsylvania 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”.
Billings granted a charter in 1888 to establish “The Temple College of Billings”, 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 Billings Dental College. After the merger, Temple officially reincorporated as Temple University on December 12, 1907.
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 schools and colleges:
| Name of College |
Dean |
| Temple University School of Environmental Design |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Tyler School of Art The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Fox School of Business at Temple University The Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University. Located in Philadelphia, the Fox School offers several Master of Business Administration programs ; several other master's degree programs; and several Ph.D...
|
M. Moshe Porat, M.B.A., Ph.D. |
| The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry |
Amid I. Ismail, B.D.S., M.B.A, Dr.P.H |
| Temple University College of Education |
James Earl Davis, Ph.D. (Interim Dean) |
| Temple University College of Engineering A college of engineering generally refers to an institute which offers engineering course at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level. Either these institutes are part of a university or are affiliated to some university. The duration of the undergraduate course is four to five years depending...
|
Keya Sadeghipour, Ph.D. |
| College of Health Professions and Social Work |
Michael Sitler Ed.D., ATC, FNATA (Interim Dean) |
Temple University Beasley School of LawThe Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Temple University. Informally referred to as Temple Law School, the school is located at the Main Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Temple University James E...
|
Joanne Epps, J.D. |
| Temple University College of Liberal Arts |
Theresa Soufas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Medicine The Temple University School of Medicine , located on the Health Science Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, is one of 7 schools of medicine in Pennsylvania conferring the doctor of medicine degree. It also confers the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in biomedical sciences.The 2011 U.S...
|
Larry R. Kaiser, M.D., FACS |
| Boyer College of Music and Dance The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Boyer College of Music and Dance is the music school at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The college includes the Boyer College of Music, founded in 1962, and the Temple...
|
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Pharmacy |
Peter H. Doukas, Ph.D. |
| Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine The Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine is a podiatric medical school part of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school is located at 8th and Race Streets in downtown Philadelphia. The school was founded in 1963 as the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine...
|
John Mattiacci, D.P.M. |
| Temple University College of Science and Technology Temple University's College of Science and Technology houses the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer & Information Sciences, Earth & Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics. It is one of the largest schools or colleges of its kind in the Philadelphia region with more than 180...
|
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) |
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
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. The Temple University campus occupies 105 acres (424,920.3 m²) of land in the center of Philadelphia with an estimated 12,000 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, clubs, exhibits and lecture series to students and the public.
The Temple University graduate and family housing unit is the Triangle Apartment Complex, located on the main campus. The complex consists of converted brownstones. Each building has five units. Residents are zoned to the
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. The complex is zoned to Tanner Duckrey School (K-8) and
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. In 2010 the university proposed banning children from living in the Triangle complex. The university later rescinded the plan.
Separate campuses
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The
Health Sciences Campus (HSC) is located in North Philadelphia specifically spanning Broad Street from Allegheny to Venango streets and encompassing an academic medical center, a school of medicine, school of pharmacy, school of dentistry and college of health professions and social work.
Temple University Center City
The
Temple University AmblerTemple University Ambler is the suburban campus of Temple University. The Ambler campus is located 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania....
(TUA) campus was originally a
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. 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)
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, located 13 miles (20.9 km) from the main campus.
Temple University Harrisburg (TUH)
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.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}}
Former campuses
The
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campus, located in
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, 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
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.
Temple University Japan
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,
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,
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. 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.{{as of?|date=March 2011}} Of this number, 851 are undergraduates, and 435 are in graduate programs (48 MBA, 154 Law and 233 TESOL).{{as of?|date=March 2011}}
Non-degree enrollment is about 978, and there are approximately 987 enrollments in continuing education programs.{{as of?|date=March 2011}}
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
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-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.{{or|date=March 2011}}
Temple University Rome
Temple University Rome offers both semester and summer abroad programs with an option of an internship.
The Temple Rome campus is located in Rome, in the Temple's Villa Caproni, just north of
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. 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
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.
Programs abroad
Temple University in Oviedo, Spain, which is based at the
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offers a spring semester program and an existing summer program. Temple University London in
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is offered through the School of Communications and Theater.
- Temple operates other summer programs in London
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is offered through the Fox School of BusinessThe Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University. Located in Philadelphia, the Fox School offers several Master of Business Administration programs ; several other master's degree programs; and several Ph.D...
and the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Academics
Temple University has over 300 degree programs from 17 schools and colleges and 4 professional schools. The university is known for its programs in areas such as business, communications, education, art, music, science, and the health professions. Temple is ranked 132nd amongst national universities and 66th amongst public institutions in the US according to
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's 2011 rankings, placing it 3rd in
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for public universities. Temple is also regarded as one of the "Best Northeastern Colleges" and having the 35th best entrepreneurial undergraduate program in the nation according to Princeton Review. The Princeton Review and
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also named Temple one of the most connected campuses in the
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in their 2006 survey.
Business
Temple's
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dates back to 1918 and is one of the largest business schools in the region and country. Its undergraduate program is ranked 71st in the country by
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, with its programs in International Business and Risk Management and Insurance ranking among the top 10 in the nation The
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named Temple one of the twenty one Centers of Actuarial Excellence in North America for its Actuarial Science program.
Princeton Review named Temple as one of the
Top 20 Most Entrepreneurial Campus in U.S while ranking its entrepreneurial program 13th in 2010.
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.
Law
Temple's Beasley School of Law had one of the highest pass rates 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 2011 version of US News & World Reports ranked the Beasley School of Law International Law program 11th best in the nation. Temple Law also maintained its top-five national ranking in trial advocacy (2nd). The Beasley School of Law is also currently ranked as the 61st 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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Temple University's sports teams are the
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s: 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
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(A-10), with the notable exception of football, which transitioned into the
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from being a I-A Independent. The Owls are also part of the
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, 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
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The Temple Men's basketball program is ranked 6th in All-Time NCAA wins with 1711, starting the 2009/2010 season. Only Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Duke, and Syracuse have 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
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by routing Colorado 60-36 in the championship final. Because the
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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
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appearances (1956, 1958) under legendary Head Coach Harry Litwack. Litwack would be inducted into the
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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
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on five different occasions. He was consensus national coach of the year in 1988.
On April 10, 2006,
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head coach and
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alumnus
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was named the new Temple's Men's Head Basketball coach after Chaney's retirement in conclusion of 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.
Football
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Temple's football team dates back to 1894 and currently plays Division I FBS football in the
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.
Women's basketball
The Women's Basketball Team was guided by head coach and three time Olympic Gold Medalist,
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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.
Entering the 2011-2012 season, Temple has played in the previous nince NCAAs.
Student life
Resident students, totaling approximately 12,000, 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 campus. 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, known as the IBC by students, 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
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), 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 NewsThe Temple News is the editorially independent weekly newspaper of Temple University.It prints 6,000 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...
, Temple's community
newspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
, 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
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 Colin Saltry and Student Body Vice Presidents Elliot Griffin and Ugochukwo Obilo, who together ran on a ticket entitled TU Nation. TSG has a fully staffed office within the Howard Gittis Student Center and holds weekly General Assembly meetings.
Student media
- WRTI
WRTI is a public radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a service of Temple University.WRTI began in 1948 as an AM carrier current station. It was founded by John Roberts, professor emeritus of communications at Temple and long-time anchorman at WFIL-TV . He'd helped found the School...
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
The Temple News is the editorially independent weekly newspaper of Temple University.It prints 6,000 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...
(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.
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
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National Panhellenic ConferenceThe National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
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National Pan-Hellenic CouncilThe National Pan-Hellenic Council is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities. The nine NPHC organizations are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Divine Nine"...
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Alpha Epsilon Phi Alpha Epsilon Phi is a sorority and member of the National Panhellenic Conference. It was founded on October 24, 1909 at Barnard College in New York City by seven Jewish women; Helen Phillips Lipman, Ida Beck Carlin, Rose Gerstein Smolin, Augustina "Tina" Hess Solomon, Lee Reiss Liebert, Rose...
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Alpha Kappa AlphaAlpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
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Chi Upsilon Sigma Chi Upsilon Sigma — official name is Corazones Unidos Siempre — is a Latina oriented Greek letter intercollegiate sorority. Chi Upsilon Sigma was founded on April 29, 1980, at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey...
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Alpha Epsilon PiAlpha Epsilon Pi , the Global Jewish college fraternity, has 155 active chapters in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Israel with a membership of over 9,000 undergraduates...
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Delta ZetaDelta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...
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Alpha Phi AlphaAlpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
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Delta Phi EpsilonDelta Phi Epsilon is an international sorority founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School in New York City...
ΔΦE |
Delta Sigma ThetaDelta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...
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Delta Chi Psi
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Alpha Tau OmegaAlpha Tau Omega is a secret American leadership and social fraternity.The Fraternity has more than 250 active and inactive chapters, more than 200,000 initiates, and over 7,000 active undergraduate members. The 200,000th member was initiated in early 2009...
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Phi Sigma SigmaPhi Sigma Sigma , colloquially known as "Phi Sig," was the first collegiate nonsectarian fraternity, welcoming women of all faiths and backgrounds...
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Kappa Alpha PsiKappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin...
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Delta Kappa DeltaDelta Kappa Delta is a United States based sorority for young women who have dedicated their hearts and souls to service and sisterhood. B.E.T.I.S. was created as the grass roots service organization in which the National Founding Mothers realized the need to unite, serve, and educate the community...
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Kappa Delta RhoKappa Delta Rho is an American college social fraternity, with 77 chapters spread out over the United States, primarily in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions...
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Omega Psi PhiOmega Psi Phi is a fraternity and is the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos...
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Gamma Phi Sigma
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Kappa SigmaKappa Sigma , commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig, is an international fraternity with currently 282 active chapters and colonies in North America. Kappa Sigma has initiated more than 240,000 men on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Today, the Fraternity has over 175,000 living...
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Phi Beta SigmaPhi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
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Iota Nu Delta
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Phi Kappa ThetaPhi Kappa Theta is a national social fraternity with over 50 chapters and colonies at universities across the United States. "Phi Kaps", as they are commonly referred to colloquially, are known for diversity among their brothers and a dedication to service.-History:Phi Kappa Theta was established...
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Zeta Phi BetaZeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.Zeta Phi Beta is organized into 800+ chapters, in eight intercontinental regions including the USA, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean...
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Kappa Phi GammaKappa Phi Gamma Sorority, Inc. , is a South Asian interest sorority geared towards women of all descents...
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Pi Lambda PhiPi Lambda Phi International Fraternity Inc. is a college social fraternity with 35 active chapters and four colonies in the United States and Canada....
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Lambda Theta AlphaLambda Theta Alpha is a Latina sorority in the United States.The idea for Lambda Theta Alpha began in the late 1970s, when colleges and universities experienced an influx of Latino enrollment; the organization came into being at Kean University in 1975 with Lambda Theta Alpha's seventeen founding...
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Sigma Alpha MuSigma Alpha Mu , also known as "Sammy", is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909. Originally only for Jewish men, Sigma Alpha Mu remained so until 1953, when members from all backgrounds were accepted. Originally headquartered in New York, Sigma Alpha Mu has...
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Lambda Theta PhiLambda Theta Phi is a non-profit social fraternity in the United States. It was founded on December 1, 1975 at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. It emphasizes Latin unity and the celebration of the Latin culture. In 1992 Lambda Theta Phi was accepted into the North-American Interfraternity...
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Tau Kappa EpsilonTau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
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Psi Sigma PhiPsi Sigma Phi Multicultural Fraternity was founded December 12, 1990 at Montclair State University and New Jersey City University. It is the nation's first fraternity founded under the ideal of multicultural membership. The Eighteen Founding Fathers established Psi Sigma Phi as a service oriented...
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(***) These organizations are conditionally recognized by Temple University and the MGC in 2010
Residential halls and facilities
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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 CommunitiesAmerican Campus Communities Inc. is a university housing development company with its headquarters in Bee Cave, Texas, near Austin....
' 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.
Technology
In January 2006, the university opened the
TECH CenterThe TECH Center is a computer lab and technology center, located at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the largest facility of its kind in the United States, featuring a large-scale 24-hour lab, Help Desk, and resources for teaching and learning. The facility opened in January...
. The TECH Center is a 75000 sq ft (6,967.7 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 StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in the annual "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses" survey
http://www.forbes.com. 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 36000 square feet (3,344.5 m²) “theater-in-the-round-style” concert hall, which will be home to Temple’s orchestra and choir.
Under the plan, the 105 acre (0.4249203 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.
The Temple "T"
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. LiacourasPeter James Liacouras is an American academic.-Career:Liacouras was the President of Temple University from 1981-2000. He is also a former Dean of the Temple University School of Law . He has been chancellor of Temple University since his retirement in 2000...
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
owlOwls are a group of birds that belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions . Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish...
is the
symbolA symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
and
mascotThe term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
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
commencementGraduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation is often called degree day. The graduation itself is also...
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convocationA Convocation is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose.- University use :....
, and athletic events, is the Temple University Fight Song.
{{cquote|"T for Temple U, U-niversity. Fight, Fight Fight! for the Cherry and the White, for the Cherry and the White—Fight, Fight Fight!"}}
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
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There are 260,000 living Temple alumni in all 50 states and 145 countries.
Historical
On April 2, 1965,
Lester B. PearsonLester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...
,
Prime Minister of CanadaThe Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
and recipient of the
Nobel peace prizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
was awarded the Temple University World Peace Prize. During his acceptance speech Pearson criticised American bombing of
VietnamThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
,
"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. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
who, the next day at
Camp DavidCamp David is the country retreat of the President of the United States and his guests. It is located in low wooded hills about 60 mi north-northwest of Washington, D.C., on the property of Catoctin Mountain Park in unincorporated Frederick County, Maryland, near Thurmont, at an elevation of...
, 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
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- On July 20, 2010, Temple University was used as a backdrop for an episode of the television show Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...
. 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
Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr. is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election...
's daughter attended Temple and lived in Johnson/Hardwick residence hall during her first year. During Sharpton's 2004 campaign for the Democratic nomination for President, he gave an impromptu speech in the former "Social Lounge" of Johnson/Hardwick Halls.
- President Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
visited Temple University and once spent the night in Johnson/Hardwick residence hall along with the Secret ServiceThe United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States...
prior to partaking in a Habitat for Humanity work project.
- In fiction: Toby Flenderson
Toby Wyatt Flenderson, M.S.W. born 1971 is a character from the US television series The Office. He is played by Paul Lieberstein. He is an original character and has no equivalent in the British version of the show, The Office.-Overview:...
from the NBC comedy The Office holds a degree in social work from Temple.
- In fiction: Lance Sweets
Lance Sweets, Psy.D., Ph.D. , is a fictional character in the American television series Bones. He is portrayed by John Francis Daley.Daley first made three guest appearances during the first eight episodes of Season 3, first appearing in "The Secret in the Soil"...
from the FOX drama BonesBones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
holds a master's degree in abnormal psychology from Temple University.
- In fiction: Tracy Jordan
Ogbert Jordan, better known by his stage name, Tracy, is a fictional character on the American television series 30 Rock, based on and played by Tracy Morgan.-Brief overview:...
from the NBC comedy 30 Rock30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...
mentions his speech at Temple University getting canceled because Bill Cosby and the Black Crusaders are after him in the episode "Cleveland"Cleveland" is the twentieth episode of the first season of 30 Rock. It was written by one of the season's co-executive producers, Jack Burditt, and one of the season's executive producers, Robert Carlock. It was directed by Paul Feig. It first aired on April 19, 2007 on the NBC network in the...
".
- In fiction: Helen Pryor from the NBC comedy-drama American Dreams
American Dreams is an American television comedy-drama program broadcast on the NBC television network, produced by Once A Frog and Dick Clark Productions in association with Universal Network Television and NBC Studios...
took a literature class at Temple.
- In fiction: In the first episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. New episodes continue to air on FX, with reruns playing on Comedy Central, general broadcast syndication, and WGN America—the first-ever cable-to-cable syndication deal for a sitcom...
, Mac and Charlie visit Temple.
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