With more students living on campus, the Board of Trustees has voted to raise the rates for housing to fund the demand.

The cost of housing will be going up for students living on campus.
Patrick J. O’Connor, the student affairs committee chairman, announced a motion to increase housing rates by 4.75 percent for the 2008-2009 school year.
The motion was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees and will increase costs from $133 to $224 per semester, depending [...]

The Board of Trustees Facilities Committee announced Feb. 28 that it would approve funding for the completion of the lower level and atrium of the new Tyler School of Art building, currently under construction.
Also announced were plans for a complete renovation of Temple Towers and an 18,000 square-foot addition to Presser Hall.
The committee unanimously approved [...]

Cephalon Inc., the biotechnology company founded by Temple trustee and alumnus Frank Baldino, Jr., is being sued by the Federal Trade Commission for what it calls “anti-competitive conduct.”
The FTC filed the complaint Feb. 13, with allegations stemming from an agreement Cephalon allegedly made with its competitors to delay a generic version of Provigil, a sleep [...]

The law firm Barrack, Rodos and Bacine announced Jan. 17 that a jury found that Apollo Group Inc., the for-profit company that owns the University of Phoenix Online, and two of its former executives misled investors about a scathing report released by the U.S. Department of Education in 2004.
Leonard Barrack, a member of Temple’s Board [...]

The Board of Trustees added a new member to its ranks at their first meeting of the fall semester at the Feinstone Lounge in Sullivan Hall last Tuesday.
The Committee on Trustee Affairs unanimously elected Jane Scaccetti to the Board for a term that began Oct. 9 and ends Oct. 11, 2011. Scaccetti, who received a [...]