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1 week ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
At least one Temple student is on interim suspension after the university was made aware of an antisemitic incident that occurred off-campus Saturday night, President John Fry wrote in a statement Sunday. “In the strongest terms possible, let me be clear: antisemitism is abhorrent,” Fry wrote.
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2 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Temple is establishing a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity to assist with waste and recycling efforts when students move out of their off-campus apartments. The new Habitat for Humanity program allows students to sign up for pick-up times to donate furniture in good condition from their curb for reuse at ReStore locations around Philadelphia.
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2 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Temple will hold its 138th commencement ceremony alongside more than a dozen individual schools and colleges holding their own ceremonies for their graduating students in early May. Board of Trustees chairman Mitchell Morgan will be the main speaker at commencement, where he and former lacrosse coach Tina Sloan Green will also receive an honorary degree.
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3 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Mitchell Morgan, chairman of Temple;s Board of Trustees and owner of Morgan Properties, will serve as the commencement speaker at Temple’s 2025 Commencement ceremony on May 7, the university has announced. Morgan graduated from the Fox School of Business in 1976 and Beasley School of Law in 1980. He founded Morgan Properties, a real estate investment and management company headquartered in King of Prussia. He was also included on Forbes’ List of Billionaires earlier this year.
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3 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Two years after the release of an audit conducted by 21CP Solutions on Temple’s Department of Public Safety, five of the 75 recommendations are not yet completed and another 14 are still in progress, The Temple News observed. Twenty-one percent are marked as completed, one-time improvements and 63% of the recommendations are completed, ongoing efforts. Another 3% are still recommended and not in-progress yet.
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3 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Three Temple students were assaulted on campus by a group of minors who gathered at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue Saturday night, wrote Vice President for Public Safety Jennifer Griffin and Vice President for Student Affairs Jodi Bailey Accavallo in a message to the Temple community early Sunday morning. Two students required medical attention to evaluate their injuries and another was pushed to the ground but did not need any assistance, according to the email.
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4 weeks ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Mariam Elias-Danjuma, a freshman communication studies major, showed up at 7 p.m. Thursday night to the STAR Complex on 15th Street near Montgomery. After going through the block party set outside with funnel cake, hot dogs, mocktails and bubble tea, she entered the indoor athletic field as the sun was still just setting through the red-and white-tinted windows. “What the helly, that’s what I have to say,” Elias-Danjuma said after the show.
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1 month ago | 
temple-news.com | Sidney Rochnik |Evelyn Blower
Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President Ken Kaiser will step down on June 30, the university announced in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Kaiser decided to retire due to health complications, Fry wrote. Kaiser was out on extended medical leave earlier this semester. “The significance of Ken’s departure cannot be overstated,” wrote President John Fry in the message.
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1 month ago | 
temple-news.com | Evelyn Blower
Several additional student visas have been revoked and $3 million of federal research grants have been terminated at Temple, wrote President John Fry in a message to the Temple community Monday evening. All students, faculty and staff will also undergo required discrimination training as part of their resolution with the Department of Education that Temple agreed to in November 2024. The training will be released this week.
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1 month ago | 
temple-news.com | Samuel O'Neal |Evelyn Blower
Human remains and caskets were found at the construction site of the Klein College of Media and Communication and Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts’ new building at Broad Street and Polett Walk, a source told The Temple News Friday night. The site was formerly home to the Monument Cemetery, which spanned from Broad to 17th streets to the West and Montgomery to Norris Streets to the North, and was acquired by the university in the 1950s.
