­Recent graduates usually scoff at the university’s attempts to solicit donations on graduation day.
But while loans and interest may seem more pressing than giving back to the university, the Class of 2008 has reason to consider a donation.
In the last four years, we’ve seen the most vibrant development in North Philadelphia in five decades. Former [...]

City universities are unwelcome pariahs who gentrify and litter as they go, or economic saviors who enhance a neighborhood, depending on whom you ask.
As with most controversies, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Joyce Dennis, an assistant in Paley Library, occupies that uncertain middle ground. She was looking for a home with more space than [...]

President Ann Weaver Hart attended Temple Student Government’s 25th General Assembly meeting of the academic year this Monday.
Hart gave a brief overview of what Temple administration has been doing and answered questions from students.
She focused on Temple’s move toward private fundraising. Administration had set out to raise $300 million by 2009, but they have now [...]

Temple’s Philadelphia Scholars program makes college a more accessible dream to public high school students, but Mayor Michael Nutter calls on more followers to increase its impact on the city.
President Ann Weaver Hart announced the new scholarships on Wednesday before a board meeting at the school district’s administrative building, located only a mile from Main [...]

Larry Lemanski already has a Temple lapel pin. It comes free when you shake the foundation of professorial research at a university.
The man with the thick gray goatee joined Temple on Dec. 1, ditching a stint he had Florida Atlantic University. In a November interview with the Temple News, President Ann Weaver Hart was awfully [...]

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Transcript of Interview with President Ann Weaver Hart
Q: How are you acclimating yourself to Temple, how are you settling in?
A: This is in the middle of my eighth week, so it’s been very exciting. The good side of this [...]

The university’s Board of Trustees announced Thursday, May 4, that Ann Weaver Hart, who currently leads the University of New Hampshire, will be Temple’s first female president.Effective July 1, Hart will replace outgoing President David Adamany, who will retire June 30 after serving nearly six years as president.Hart, 57, takes the reigns at Temple amid [...]