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Our talented faculty and broad curriculum of nearly 300 academic programs provide superior educational opportunities for academically talented and highly motivated students, without regard to their status or station in life. Temple?s richly diverse student population and the dramatic growth of our residential campus community of student scholars enrich the educational and extracurricular life of our people. While the University especially serves students from Greater Philadelphia, it is enlivened by a rapidly increasing number of students from across Pennsylvania, throughout the nation, and around the world.We maintain an international presence with campuses in Tokyo and Rome and programs in London, Beijing, and six other locations worldwide. A long-time leader in professional education, Temple prepares the largest body of practitioners in Pennsylvania; we are among the nation?s largest educators in the combined fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry and law. In addition, we offer more than four dozen doctoral and more than 100 master?s degree programs that contribute to research and scholarship. Temple seeks to create new knowledge that improves the human condition and uplifts the human spirit.To achieve this goal, we maintain our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and supporting outstanding faculty that prize diversity of thought, excel in scholarly endeavors, and support the aspirations of capable students.
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Rally will protest planned move of Temple program
Supporters of the Pan-African Studies Community Education Program at Temple University will hold a protest rally today against the school's decision to relocate it. University officials plan to move the program from Anderson Hall at 1114 W. Berks St. to the Entertainment and Community Education Center at 1509 Cecil B....
Willowbrook's 'Diesel' getting all revved up.(Sports Extra)
Colin Madison, defending Class AA shot put champion out of Willowbrook High School, is seeded second entering Class AA preliminaries of the boys track and field state finals starting today in Charleston. His throw of 62 feet, 1/2 inch at Glenbard South's Raider Invite on April...
Black Jew illuminates diversity of Judaism
Much of the study of African Americans and Jews relates to relationships between the two groups.But Lewis Ricardo Gordon, a Jamaica-born, Yale-educated author and Temple University professor, is studying African-Americans who are Jews. And he's not just talking about people of color who became Jews as a result of their...
Tech Central: despite all the talk about wireless, Temple University leaders found it made sense to centralize its technology equipment on campus
IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? THAT WAS THE $16 million question Temple University (Pa.) executives, administrators, and trustees pondered before they gave the go-ahead to construct the largest student computer center in the country. "It wasn't a slam dunk," recalls Timothy O'Rourke, vice president of Computer and...
An education in AV technology: the annual EduComm conference covered podcasting, distance learning, and classroom planning
Orlando, Florida, may be best known for its Magic Kingdom and Island of Adventure, but for three days in June it played host to another "theme park" in the form of the 2006 EduComm conference. The theme, of course, was connecting education with audiovisual and information technology. Colocated with InfoComm...
Updating African traditions
If you're curious how contemporary dance looks when deeply rooted in African tradition, you'll want to see Kariamu Welsh's group. Welsh, a Temple University professor, is a revered teacher whose Umfundalai technique, a synthesis of pan-African movements with modern idioms, forms the basis for her choreography. Beginning a...
Defining America through Immigration Policy.(Book review)
Defining America through Immigration Policy. By Bill Ong Hing. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 324. $26.95.) The author of this book offers a challenging examination of immigration history and the use of immigration policies in Americans' long quest to define "Who is...
In memoriam
John C. Chen John C. Chen, a math professor at Temple University for more than 30 years and director of advanced mathematics programs for Philadelphia high schools, passed away on September 21, 2005. Born in Nanjing, China, Chen was the son of the minister of education in Shanghai prior...
Susan Mendelsohn.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Susan Mendelsohn of Batavia A memorial service for Susan Mendelsohn, formerly of Reading, Pa. and New York, N.Y., will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, at Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom, 555 Warwick Drive, Reading, PA 19610. Born Jan. 20, 1942, in Reading, the daughter...
Low-income Philadelphia neighborhood to receive high-tech makeover.
By Anthony S. Twyman, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Several urban planners and a community group want to bring wireless Internet access, a community technology center, and new housing and commercial development to a North Philadelphia neighborhood shared...
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