Get your STUDeNt Passport to Phila artS | PaGe 7 www.temple.edu/newsroom TEMPLETemple’s monthly newspaper for the university TIMES community September 2, 2011 | Vol. 42, No. 1 Temple’s Behind the spirit, vitality numbers palpable as Busy admissions season marked by surges fall semester in applications and campus visitors begins WheN The Tail lighTs of The lasT A message from Temple parent to drop off a new student at Temple faded University President Ann Weaver from sight on Aug. 25, left behind was Labolito V. Joseph Hart. likely one of the largest and most well- Top to bottom: Maya qualified cohorts of freshmen and new Ferguson, from I am delighted to welcome you transfers in the university’s history, Coatesville, Pa., to Temple University’s 2011-12 was accepted to 14 closing a busy admissions season academic year! I offer an especially marked by a spike in applications and different schools, but chose Temple’s warm welcome to the newest record numbers of visitors. Tyler School of Art. members of our community who Temple’s Office of Undergraduate Twins erik and are just starting out at Temple: Admissions estimates that about 7,000 evan Barnes, from Lansdale, Pa., were more than 4,300 freshmen and new students will enroll for the 2011-12 nearly 2,700 transfer students. academic year, including approximately attracted by the Fox School of Business’s Temple is a vibrant urban university 4,300 freshmen and 2,700 transfer international business c o n s t a n t l y students. programs. Grant growing in quality , from The freshman class comes to Temple lindeman and influence. Our with an estimated high school grade Holbrook, N.Y., enrolled in the Boyer College academic pro- point average of 3.41. The average of Music and Dance’s grams continue to freshman SAT score is projected to renowned music earn recognition equal or perhaps even top last year’s therapy program. for their quality record of 1,114 — 97 points higher than Brandenberg Ryan S. and outcomes. the national average and 121 points Our research also HArT higher than the Pennsylvania average. The average earns accolades SAT score of Temple freshmen has increased by 46 and helps solve the points in 10 years. The average grade point of the most pressing problems of our day. incoming transfer class is 3.10 — an all-time high. Temple University’s growth and The frenetic pace of Welcome Week — capped vitality can also be measured in by new student Convocation, Fresh Serve and a the many construction projects post-hurricane concert at the Liacouras Center — underway across the Main Campus. was a fitting conclusion to Temple’s liveliest annual The new architecture building on admissions cycle. Undergraduate applications rose 13th Street is well on its way toward sharply, up 9 percent from Fall 2010, a surge fueled completion by January of next year. by a 10 percent increase in completed freshman Great progress is also being made applications (transfer applications were up 4 on the remodeled student athletic percent). Prospective students and their families and recreation facilities in Pearson swarmed the Welcome Center throughout the year. and McGonigle Halls on Broad Street, which will reopen in early Record continued on 6 Brandenberg Ryan S. 2012. The new student residential complex on Broad Street will be taking shape in the months ahead, and design planning continues for the new science education and Temple creates new scholarship program for North Philadelphia students research building on 12th Street. Most importantly, the positive By eryn Jelesiewicz and scholarships for our neighbors are a spirit that has characterized [email protected] critical component for that success,” said Temple University from its President Hart. “This program affirms founding is alive and well at this To help increase the number of Temple’s long-standing commitment great university. Our students Philadelphians with college degrees to educate Philadelphians and provide are making a difference in and to give back to its community, access to all.” Philadelphia and in the world. Temple has created 250 four-year “Supporting and creating Those of you who are new to scholarships to be awarded over educational opportunities for Temple should seek out volunteer 10 years to students in the North Philadelphians has been a major opportunities through one of Philadelphia neighborhoods priority for my administration,” said our many student organizations. surrounding Main Campus. The Mayor Nutter. “I want to thank Temple A growing number of students new program will University for being a strong partner by have also joined TALON, Temple’s boost the amount of providing 250 four-year scholarships advocacy network, to make their Temple scholarships awarded to residents of North Philadelphia over voices heard in Harrisburg when to Philadelphia the next ten years. With more efforts important issues like public 20/20 students by Temple like theirs, Philadelphia will be 21st education funding are discussed. to nearly $12 million century ready.” I strongly encourage you to annually. Temple Labolito V. Joseph The scholarships will be awarded follow your passion in your studies president Ann Weaver Hart and Mayor Shown at a celebration for 2011 recipients of the Temple 20/20 scholarship are State Senator starting with the incoming fall 2011 Shirley M. Kitchen; scholarship recipients Verishia Coaxum and Naisha Gonzalez; Philadelphia and extracurricular activities this Michael A. Nutter announced the Mayor Michael A. Nutter; recipient Javon Johnson; Temple President Ann Weaver Hart; freshman class and will be available year. I guarantee that this year will program at a celebration for the 2011 recipient Laquana Sanford; Congressman Chaka Fattah; and recipients Tyquinten Gulley-Allen to students who live in Temple’s North be exciting and inspiring as you recipients of the scholarship this week and Tamika Adams. Philadelphia community — within contribute to Temple University, in Sullivan Hall. the 19121, 19122, 19132 and 19133 our great city and the world. The Temple 20/20 Scholarship is to re-orient Temple toward North opportunities. zip codes — at the time of application To view President Hart’s Fall program takes its name from the Broad Street and create a vibrant urban “The Temple 20/20 framework for admission. The $5,000 per year 2011 video greeting to the Temple university’s Temple 20/20 framework center that features residential space, is designed to position our entire community, visit www.temple.edu/ for campus development. The goal retail attractions and recreational community for success in the future, Scholarships continued on 8 newsroom. u Page 2 www.temple.edu/newsroom September 2, 2011 students win prestigious fulbright grants to teach, study, do research abroad By hillel hoffmann experience to use in an urban bilingual studies and geography and urban [email protected] school in the United States. An avid studies) from Ringoes, N.J., will be an soccer fan, Fischer is planning a English-language teaching assistant Six Temple students have won pilgrimage to the iconic stadiums of at a school in Sukothai province, prestigious fellowships from the Spain’s famous clubs. site of Thailand’s first capital. She Fulbright U.S. Student Program to hopes to spread her passion for her study, conduct research or teach n Christiana Jackson, an alumna of the favorite subjects — sustainability and English abroad in 2011-12. This year’s College of Liberal Arts (B.A. political rugby — to the children she teaches. cohort of Temple student Fulbright science and German) from Waldorf, Tangtrakul, whose father is Thai, plans grantees is the second largest in the Md., will serve as an English-language to return to Philadelphia to launch a university’s history. teaching assistant in a class for high- career in environmental city planning. The six winners for 2011-12 — five school-aged students in Ingelheim, Her goal: to “make it the greenest city of whom earned bachelor’s degrees in Germany, near Frankfurt. It will be in America.” May — cap an unprecedented run of a homecoming for Jackson, who was success for Temple applicants, with born in Germany while her father n mary Wolfe, an alumna of the College 18 students earning the intensely served in the United States Air Force of Liberal Arts (B.A. environmental competitive grants in the last four (her middle name is Berlin). Jackson studies) from Womelsdorf, Pa., will years. is fascinated by German politics; travel to the Netherlands to pursue a The Fulbright Program, the U.S. she will explore differences in youth master’s degree and conduct research Government’s flagship international political engagement in the U.S. and at Utrecht University, one of Europe’s exchange program, is designed to Germany. leading research institutions. She will increase mutual understanding continue her investigation of the spatial between the people of the United n Jessica meckler, a graduate of the relationship between vegetation and States and people of other countries. College of Liberal Arts (B.A. English crime in cities using satellite imagery, Winners are chosen for their academic and Asian studies) from Newtown, cartography and statistical analysis merit and leadership potential. Pa., is teaching English at an all-girls — an area of inquiry she began to high school in Cheongju, the capital explore as an undergraduate with the Temple’s 2011-12 of South Korea’s Chungcheongbuk- help of a Creative Arts, Research and Fulbright winners are: do province. Meckler is interested Scholarship grant from Temple. in inter-Asian and international n sara Fischer, a College of Education relations; she intends to encourage A sixth Temple student, Tyler graduate (B.S.Ed., elementary her students to explore the world School of Art Ph.D. candidate Jasmine Courtesy Jessica Meckler education/special education) from outside Korea.