Primary issues: Students could have a major impact
April 21, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under Featured, News
With the Pennsylvania primary potentially determining the Democratic nominee today, college voters possess the ability to have a big impact on the outcome of the election.
Clean Philly: More than 10,000 volunteers gathered Saturday for Philly Spring Cleanup.
April 7, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under Featured, News
With gloves, garbage bags and brooms in hand, students headed out in the community to partake in the citywide Philly Spring Cleanup.
Graduate! Philadelphia helps residents return to education
March 31, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under News
There are more than 70,000 Philadelphia residents who have obtained college credits, but not a degree.
Within two months of opening, Graduate! Philadelphia has provided assistance to about 600 students who are preparing to return to college and get a degree, moving Philadelphia toward Mayor Michael Nutter’s goal of doubling the number of people with a [...]
City talks bike share program funding
February 25, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under News
Philadelphia could take a step toward Mayor Michael Nutter’s goal of becoming the country’s No. 1 green city by implementing a public-use bicycle system.
Such a system could double the amount of people biking in the city, raising the number of residents who do not own cars, which is currently one-third of the population, said Alex [...]
Another admin out for Nutter
February 4, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under News
Boasting “a new Philadelphia,” Michael Nutter was inaugurated as the city’s 98th mayor last month.
Nutter envisioned the number of residents with college degrees doubling, the dropout rate being cut in half and the homicide rate dropping by 30 percent to 50 percent, he said in his inaugural address. A crime plan to accomplish his latter [...]
Snapshots of Street
January 3, 2008 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under News
Classes were back in session as former Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street returned to Temple last Tuesday, settling into a Ritter Hall classroom where he is teaching two sections of urban politics this semester.
It was announced in November that Street, a 1975 graduate of Temple’s Beasley School of Law, would become an adjunct professor in [...]
Graduates struggle with rising debt
November 6, 2007 by Amanda Snyder
Filed under News
The average debt for a 2006 graduate from Temple is $27,355 – up $1,862 from the previous year’s graduates, according to the Project on Student Debt that cited Temple graduates as some of the highest indebted students at public schools.
“Over time, loans have become the staple of the financial aid package, and that has created [...]
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