Temple University
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| Motto | "Perseverantia Vincit" ("Perseverance Conquers") |
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| Established | 1884 |
| Type | Public, State-related |
| Endowment | $196.2 million [1] |
| President | Dr. Ann Weaver Hart |
| Faculty | 1,411 part time, 1,225 full time |
| Students | 33,693 |
| Undergraduates | 24,194 |
| Postgraduates | 9,499 |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Cherry and White |
| Mascot | Owls |
| Website | www.temple.edu |
Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell and became known as Temple College in 1888. In 1907, the college became a fully accredited university. Temple University is the 28th largest university in the United States, the sixth largest provider of professional education in the country, and known for its programs in law, education, media, business, and health sciences.
Temple is a state-related university, meaning it receives public funds and offers reduced tuition for Pennsylvania residents but is under independent control. This differs from Pennsylvania's public universities and is a status shared only with the University of Pittsburgh and the historically black Lincoln University. The Pennsylvania State University is similarly structured, although that institution is a land-grant university, putting it in a slightly different category. Usually, tuition at state-related universities is higher than the tuition at Pennsylvania's public universities due to the independence of the institution.
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The Institution
The School of Dentistry, established in 1863 as the Philadelphia Dental College, is the second-oldest dental school in continuous existence in the United States and for 140 years, has provided men and women with a strong academic and clinical background for the practice of general dentistry. Temple University School of Medicine has emerged as an exceptionally competitive school of national reputation.
Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the College of Allied Health Professions, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the Boyer College of Music and Department of Dance, the College of Science and Technology, the Tyler School of Art, the Fox School of Business, the School of Communications and Theater, the School of Dentistry, the Graduate School, the Temple University Beasley School of Law, the School of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Podiatric Medicine, the School of Social Administration & Department of Health Studies, and the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Student life
Student life thrives on all Temple campuses. Students have ample opportunities to attend movies, concerts, guest lectures, and performances of all kinds. More than 100 clubs and organizations provide outlets for socializing, competitive political debate (where Temple is a member of the competitive American Parliamentary Debating Association), community service, and more. Student-athletes compete in intercollegiate and intramural athletics.
Resident students, totaling nearly 9,000, live mainly in the high-rise residential halls and apartment-style residences on the Main Campus in North Philadelphia. However, students also live on the Ambler and Tyler campuses. Both coed and single-sex floors are available to accommodate student preferences. Additionally, wellness floors have been developed to allow students an environment for healthy living. In 2005 the Office of Housing and Residential Living opened its technology supported living-learning center within 1300 North and South Residence Hall to assist students.
The Independence Blue Cross Student Recreation Center provides 59,000 square feet (5,500 m²) of fitness facilities. The Rec Center is just one component of the Liacouras Center. Liacouras, the home court of perennially successful Temple basketball, also houses entertainment venues and a recreation center. 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.
In the Fall of 2005 the University opened Phase II of the Student Center Annex which included a full scale movie theatre, underground multi-purpose room, game room, and computer lounge, as well as an improved meeting and office space for student groups and organizations.
Technology
In January of 2006 the university opened the TECH Center. Computer labs and distance learning equipped classrooms are available throughout the various campuses. A majority of the University is also equipped with wireless internet access. In 2004, the Princeton Review named Temple the fourth-most "connected campus" in the United States in its annual "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses" survey [2].
Residential Halls
Temple University residence halls exist to provide an opportunity for students to extend their learning experiences beyond the classroom, library, and laboratory. The Office of Housing and Residential Life attempts to create a group living environment in which each student is offered an opportunity to develop as an individual in an atmosphere which encourages emotional and intellectual growth. Currently first year students and some sophomores have the opportunity to live in the following housing units: Johnson Residence Hall, Hardwick Residence Hall,Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall, James S. White Residence Hall, 1940 Residence Hall, 1300 North Residence Hall, 1300 South Residence Hall, Temple Towers Residence Hall, and Elmira Jefferies Residence Hall. Students also live at Beech Residence Hall on the Tyler campus and East Residence Hall on the Ambler campus.
While Triangle Apartments is the oldest structure of the main campus residential halls, Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall is the oldest traditionally designed residential hall. In 2006 the building celebrates its 50th anniversary. The structure was originally designed as a women's residence hall with the campus cafeteria in the basement. The cafeteria is now housed in the Esposito Dining Center in Johnson and Hardwick Halls. The Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall building structure has since undergone many renovations to better serve students including a study lounge, game room, fitness center, computer lab, kitchen, and new windows and air conditioning. Many alumni fondly recall their experiences in Peabody Hall, known affectionately as "Peabody Pride". Gertrude Peabody Residence Hall is also known to have been built on land that once occupied one of Temple University founder, Russell Conwell's original homes.
The University has made arrangements for auxiliary housing within Franklin House, Elmira Jeffries, and Kardon/Atlantic Terminal Building to extend opportunities for its growing demand for on campus residential housing. Arrangements with Franklin House and Kardon/Atlantic Terminal Building ceased beginning in Fall 2006.
Surrounding the Temple campus are an array of students living within independently run, local realty housing. After freshman and sophomore years, Temple students are forced to find these independently run housing complexes as the University will no longer provide them housing.
Graduate students may obtain housing in Triangle Apartments on main campus and in TUSPM Apartments if enrolled in the Podiatry School in Center City.
Students in their third and fourth year may inquire about housing independently with outside rental agencies, particularly with The Edge, Kardon/Atlantic Terminal Building, University Village, and Oxford Village. Students may obtain information on legitimate property managers through the Office of Off Campus Living within the Housing and Residential Life Office at The Shops on Liacouras Walk - 1910 Liacouras Walk, Suite 201-301.
Sports
Temple Owls Logo
The school's sports teams are called the Owls: this name comes from Temple's early days, when it was a night school. The Owls are primarily members of the Atlantic Ten Conference (A-10), with the notable exception of football, which is transitioning into the Mid-American Conference from being a I-A Independant. The school's men's and women's basketball as well as the men's soccer teams are part of the Philadelphia Big 5 group of teams.
The Women's Basketball Team is guided by head coach, Dawn Staley and have had 4 NCAA Appearances Under Coach Staley (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).
Temple University was among the first institutions in the United States to sponsor extracurricular athletic activities for its students. Both the football and basketball programs were inaugurated back in 1894 under the direction of Coach Charles M. Williams.
Temple University is also home to several intercollegiate club sports. Notable among these are the men's and women's rugby teams. Temple rugby teams compete as members of the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Football Union (EPRU) and the Mid Atlantic Rugby Footbal Union (MARFU). Temple's women's rugby team has made two trips to the USA Rugby Division II National Championships, in 2004 (winner) and 2005 (runner up). Member's of Temple's men's and women's rugby teams have gone on to represent the United States of America, and have received All American Honors.
Traditions
Alma Mater
"Onward with Temple. Banners all unfurled;Wide flung our standards,To the winds they're hurled.Following our founder to immortal fame;Making true his vision,Of a deathless name.Hail! Alma Mater,Honor, Praise to thee.We pledge our lives,Our hearts in loyalty.Wisdom, Truth, and VirtueBuilt our Temple great;Perseverance conquersHigher to create."
Fight Song
"'T' for 'Temple U'U-ni-versity!Fight, fight, fight!For the Cherry and the White,For the Cherry and the White,We'll fight, fight, fight!"
"Fight! Temple Fight!"Fight! Temple, fight on!Fight with all your might!Fight for the Cherry and White,Keep our colors high!Roll that ball and hit the line,All the Temple stars will shine,Skill and courage win the gameFight on, Temple, fight!
The 'T'
The traditional symbol of the University is the Temple T. Early in his administration, President Peter J. Liacouras chose this particular version of a representational T, which was created by students at the Tyler School of Art.
The Owl
The owl is the symbol and mascot for Temple University and has been since its founding in the 1880's. Temple was the first school in the United States to adopt the owl as its symbol.
Story has it that the owl, a nocturnal hunter, was initially adopted as a symbol because Temple University began as a night school for ambitious young people of limited means. Russell Conwell, Temple's founder, encouraged these students with the remark: "The owl of the night makes the eagle of the day."
Notable Achievements
Temple University Professor of Piano Lambert Orkis and Lecturer in Tuba Jay Krush were both awarded Grammy Awards at the 42nd Grammy Awards ceremony on Wednesday, February 23, 2000.
Campuses
Pennsylvania
- Main Campus: Located in Philadelphia, about three miles north of Center City. The campus is bordered by Susquehanna Avenue to the north, Oxford Street to the south, 16th Street to the west, and 10th Street to the east. The TECH Center is located here.
- Health Sciences Campus: Located in North Philadelphia specifically spanning Broad Street from Allegheny to Venango streets. With two hospitals (pediatrics and teaching), a pharmacy college, a nursing college and a dental college, it has a strong reputation for integrating all areas of health care into one fluent system. The medical and pharmacy schools are nationally renowned. The pharmacy school in particular is unique in its approach to education of the profession by administering courses that focus more on clinical sensibilities to prepare its students for the new roles of the pharmacist as a health care provider in the coming decades.
- Center City: Adjacent to Philadelphia City Hall and Suburban Station, TU-Center City specializes in evening courses for working adults, and offers bachelor's and master's degrees in liberal arts and business.
- Ambler: Originally a junior college, Ambler College now has 325 faculty and 4,600 students on a 187 acre (757,000 m²) campus, and offers bachelor's and master's degree programs.
- Harrisburg: Located at Strawberry Square, TU-Harrisburg offers degrees in education, business, and social administration.
- Fort Washington: TU-Fort Washington offers graduate degrees in business, computer engineering, education, and pharmacy.
- Tyler School of Art: Tyler School of Art campus, located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, was donated by Stella Elkins Tyler in the 1930s to dedicate as an art school. A controversial move in recent years has led Temple to plan on closing the campus and moving it to the main campus, despite concerns from students, faculty, and alumni.
Temple University Japan
Temple University also operates Temple University Japan (テンプル大学ジャパン Tenpuru Daigaku Japan?), a branch campus located in two buildings in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. TUJ is the oldest and largest campus of any foreign university in Japan, with 2,830 students, about one-half of whom are Japanese and the others being from the U.S. and about 40 other countries. The campus offers B.A. (nine majors), M.S.Ed., Ed.D., MBA and LL.M programs, and also offers semester and year-long study abroad programs for U.S. undergraduates and law students (the latter is the firstAmerican Bar Association-accredited study abroad program in Asia). In addition, TUJ has non-degree English-language, continuing (adult) education, and corporate education programs.
After extended negotiations involving the U.S. and Japanese governments, in February 2005 TUJ became the first recognized foreign university campus (外国大学日本校 gaikoku daigaku nihonkō?) in Japan. As a result, its credits and degrees are recognized as being equivalent to those of Japanese universities (while still being regular Temple University credits and degrees) and it can sponsor visas for international students. TUJ 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 TUJ and the Japanese government is that TUJ 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 TUJ and its students.
TUJ plans to move to a large, purpose-built facility -- Temple Educational Center -- in central Tokyo in 2010.
Other campuses
Temple also operates its own summer programs on small campuses in London and Rome, and administers an LLM program in China (the only one of its kind) through a cooperative venture with Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Historical
On April 2nd, 1965, Lester B. Pearson, Canadian prime minister and recipient of the Nobel peace prize was awarded the Temple University World Peace Prize. During his acceptance speech Pearson criticised American bombing of Vietnam,
"There are many factors which I am not in a position to weigh. But there does appear to be at least a possibility that a suspension of such air strikes against North Vietnam, at the right time, might provide the Hanoi [communists] authorities with an opportunity, if they wish to take it, to inject some flexibility into their policy without appearing to do so as the direct result of military pressure"[1]
The seemingly harmless speech infuriated President Johnson who, the next day at Camp David, took Pearson out onto the terrace and began "laying into [Pearson] in no uncertain fashion". Pearson later apologized for the speech. [2]
Notable alumni
External links
- Official university site
- Official Temple athletics site
- Official Temple student newspaper, Temple New
- Official university newspaper
- Law School
- Fox School of Business
- School of Communications and Theater
- Actuarial Program
- College of Science and Technology
- Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance
- Temple University Japan
- The true story of the Temple University 57 cent church
See also
| Mid-American Conference |
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| EAST: Akron • Bowling Green • Buffalo • Kent State • Miami • Ohio • Temple (football only) WEST: Ball State • Central Michigan • Eastern Michigan • Northern Illinois • Toledo • Western Michigan |
| The Atlantic 10 |
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| Charlotte • Dayton • Duquesne • Fordham • George Washington • La Salle • UMass • Rhode Island • Richmond • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Joseph's • Saint Louis • Temple • Xavier |
References
- ^ Stursburg, Peter, Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma, Vietnam War: The Speech, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980, p.217
- ^ Stursburg, Peter, Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma, Vietnam War: The Speech, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980, p.218
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