Although many Temple graduates have moved on to be successful in their field of study, only a handful of the university’s more famous alumni have a direct association with the university. Bill Cosby, in particular,
Kevin Carroll has done it all. He has served in the United States Air Force, played soccer in Germany, was the former head athletic trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers, worked as a motivational and creative
After the initial excitement of learning that I was accepted to Temple in 2003 had subsided, I felt myself falling into a daily conversation regarding my future. Once many of my neighbors, coaches and other
There are 34,000 students, 4,000 staff and administrators, and 1,600 faculty members at Temple. The university has a diverse pool of talent who are widely unknown – at least to many people in the Temple
Talking about race in mixed company is uncomfortable. Talking about the problems that exist within one race in front of mixed company is just unacceptable – or so I’ve seen. Last May, Bill Cosby made
I searched the Princeton Review and simply could not find a single list that ranked a school based on the acts of one of its basketball coaches and an alumnus. Why is that? It doesn’t
Bill Cosby and controversy have never been related terms – until recently, when Temple’s most famous graduate began to make known his opinions of African Americans in the United States. Recently, Cosby has come under
John Chaney has only read two books since graduating from Bethune-Cookman College in 1955: “Savage Inequalities” by Jonathan Kozol and “The Shape of the River” by Derek Curtis Bok. One is about inequities in the
One of the nation’s largest private collections of black history is housed at Temple University’s Main Campus. The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection consists of over 150,000 African, African-American, and African-Caribbean items that date back
Here’s an end-of-the-semester test that requires no studying. As many of us graduate, we may feel nervous about what the future holds for us. This fear is misguided, for many successful people have come out