In 2007, Boyer's Dean, Dr. Robert T. Stroker, initiated Boyer: Building Better Communities, highlighting programs that serve and reach out to local communities:

TEMPLE MUSIC PREPARATORY DIVISION

For more than three decades, Temple Music Prep, a nationally recognized flagship program for arts education, has offered a myriad of learning opportunities in music and dance for both young people and adults.

• The Community Music Scholars Program provides individual instrumental instruction, music theory lessons and dance classes to Philadelphia Title I elementary school students, for which 85% of costs are subsidized.

• Center for Gifted Young Musicians provides classes in musicianship and ensemble opportunities for students of exceptional promise.  Several students were selected to participate in National Public Radio’s top-rated From the Top radio program in 2007.

• Early Childhood Music Foundation and Music Therapy Clinic programs serve as direct conduits between the community and Boyer's research and curriculum resources

ARTS & QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH CENTER

Under the leadership of Boyer’s Dean, Dr. Robert T. Stroker, The Arts and Quality of Life Research Center was established in 2004 to promote multidisciplinary research, training and innovative programs that demonstrate the unique role of the arts in enhancing human well-being. 

Arts at Your Side, the community service program of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center, serves as a distinctive model for outreach initiatives, providing arts experiences to disenfranchised local populations.

Recent grants have been awarded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association and Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare.

 

Instrument Drive to benefit Philadelphia public schools

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity is sponsoring an instrument drive to benefit students at Temple's public partnership schools.  If you have an old instrument, and would like to donate it, contact instruments@temple.edu to arrange pick up and drop off.  To receive a form for tax purposes, contact David Brown at dpbrown@temple.edu. 

OTHER PROGRAMS WITHIN BOYER: BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES:

• Free Community concert series at Temple Ambler and main campus
• Reduced ticket prices for students

• Essentially Ellington High School jazz competion.  Held annually at Temple

• MENC-sponsored arts camp

• Annual High School Choral Festival

• Student exchange program with the Hanoi Conservatory & Amsterdam Conservatory

• Student volunteer, dedicating their time to numerous causes, from Katrina rescue efforts to Susan. G. Komen Race for the Cure

• Subsidized tickets and transportation to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln and Kimmel Centers for Boyer performances