Columnist Jeff Appelblatt is graduating. One thing he has learned is that networking is important, but he says it goes beyond just important people who can help with your profession.

When you meet someone new, one of the first questions you’re asked is an obligatory, “What do you do?”

I know it’s an innocent query, but that question always makes me a little uneasy. What do I do? I do many things.
Of course, the expected response is merely a profession, but answering that way feels limiting. […]

I am graduating. After four years on North Broad Street – two more than you – I have plenty I want to share with you. Space is limited, so forgive my suddenness.
Throw your students into the surrounding communities.
For 45 years, this university has tried to figure out how to trick middle-class students into studying amid […]

I am not from Pennsylvania, and it’s ridiculous that residents throughout the entire 45,308 square miles get in-state tuition.

This is Chink’s Steaks, a restaurant with a reputation of great food and an infamously controversial name.

As students, we’ve all been in the situation before: the stress of end-of-the-year papers, projects and upcoming finals is exacerbated by those annoying group projects. There’s that one member who bails every time the group gets together, and the other who can only get together on Wednesdays between 2 and 5 p.m. Even if […]

When it comes to the improvement and expansion of Main Campus, students tend to focus on housing and technology. But academics – the real reason you’re paying tuition – often go ignored.
Journalist and professor Ted Gup addressed this in his April 11 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“I find it profoundly discouraging to encounter […]

I was an eager freshman in 2004.
That fall, Bill Cosby, Board of Trustees member, alumnus and longtime university advocate, held his second annual “Cosby 101” event, during which he lectured to incoming Temple students on life, the city and education.
There he promised the graduating Class of 2008 – my class – he would speak at […]

It seems Sen. Hillary Clinton is under constant attack, columnist Chris Stover notes how it affected yesterday’s primary.

Every four years, the country, the international media and the students on this campus become absorbed with a presidential election that’s always said to be of monumental import.
As much as the political experts are attesting to the significance of today’s statewide Democratic presidential primary, I can remember being harangued by a number of sources about […]