This interview was conducted in person on January 9, and then via email for follow-up questions. _______________________________ The Faculty Herald: You’ve spent many years working in this pocket of Pennsylvania. You served as the President of Drexel University and Franklin & Marshall College. Before those positions, you served in a high-level administrative role at the University of Pennsylvania. Many of our readers would be interested to know why you’ve made the transition to Temple?

Foreign students make up almost 28 percent of its total student body. The unprecedented move would also force existing students to transfer or lose their legal status.

As a long-serving instructor in Temple’s First Year Writing program, I find myself on the front lines of teaching writing in the age of AI. I have been asked to share …

In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Federal funding is the largest source of support for the state’s cultural sector. Take that away, and you don’t just harm nonprofits, you harm communities and local economies.

When the federal funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were first announced in February, Swati Nagar, a professor in the School of Pharmacy at Temple University, felt it as “a gut punch to the research enterprise of universities in America.” For now, these cuts are on hold after Federal Judge Angel Kelly extended the initial injunction issued on February 10.

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

A vote by regents put the university among roughly 140 colleges that have adopted similar policies since the 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas.

The mission of the Temple University faculty is to educate working people. Our 1888 charter declares: “The purpose for which the Corporation is formed is the Support of an Educational Institution i…

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The Office for Civil Rights closure came as the Trump administration announced layoffs for nearly half of Department of Education employees.

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.

And it won’t stop at Columbia.

Many in higher ed have expressed concern that the department doesn’t have to be eliminated to be weakened substantially.

Silence is not an option.

The AAUP’s new statement recognizes that academic freedom is in peril.

If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

The academy excels at preserving the status quo. It’s time to evolve.

The sentence for Truong Huy San, an influential reporter, was the latest crackdown on speech by Vietnam, a rising regional power.