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DESTINATION TEMPLE
Every day across the world, thousands of people come to a Temple campus. The University’s multiple campuses reflect shared Temple values, yet possess their own unique identities. Every University campus is a welcoming place, a destination for life. For students, Temple is life-changing. For faculty, it is a place to build a life’s work. For staff, it is a place where every interaction makes a difference. For alumni, it is an intellectual and emotional home. For business, government and cultural representatives, it is a place for collaboration and growth. For visitors of all kinds, it is a place for discovery. Important opportunities exist for vesting Temple University more completely in the communities of which it is part.
Initiatives
- Create a vibrant and diverse “campus within the city”
- Cultivate an integrated arts, culture and entertainment community through curricular and co-curricular initiatives
- Establish integrated marketing and communications for Destination Temple
Outcome Measures (AY 08/09 – AY 13/14)
- Expand arts performances on campus to new Tyler School, Baptist Temple
- Attract new businesses within and around the Temple community
- Implement Phase I of campus master plan to revitalize the physical presence of Temple University
Progress to-date (highlights as of 4/30/09)
Create a vibrant and diverse “campus within a city”
- Completed Campus Master Plan to improve the academic, recreational, and social spaces of Temple University by 2020
- Open Tyler School of Art to anchor Avenue of the Arts North on March 25, 2009
- Host ribbon cutting for Alter Hall of the Fox School of Business on April 20, 2009
- Complete construction of the new Medical School Building in Fall 2009
- Construction underway on Presser Hall of the Boyer College of Music and Dance
Cultivate an arts, culture and entertainment community through curricular and co-curricular initiatives
- Put on more than 300 arts and culture performances per year
- Tyler of School of Art relocation to North Broad St. integrates the arts of Temple University
- Gallery space used for public exhibits
- Tyler students integrated into the Temple community
- School of Communications and Theater
- License application submitted to city for digital cable Educational Access Channel to be called TUTV
- Increase Temple’s reputation by original plays such as “In Conflict” – Fringe Arts Festival Award Winner and capped by Off Broadway run.
- Boyer College of Music and Dance –
- Grammy Award winning faculty
- Student orchestra and jazz band – performances at the Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall and other world-class venues
- The Baptist Temple – under renovation – to become major cultural performance venue
- Executive director of the Baptist Temple recruited to integrate cultural activities
- Paley Library
- Houses some of the most outstanding digital and other media archives of Philadelphia’s history
- Hosts arts and cultures lectures and performances
- Tyler School of Art
- Announced three semi-finalists for the Wolgin Prize, a $150,000 prize endowed by philanthropist Jack Wolgin, which is the largest prize of its kind in the world
- In spring '09 Tyler students declared war on Philadelphia’s four other art schools (Moore College of Art, the Art Institute, the University of the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) by placing large scale Trojan horse sculptures inside each of these schools, prompting artistic retaliations from two of the schools
- Hillel Center
- Celebrated the Lipman family’s donation of a torah in memory of Marc Lipman to the Edward H. Rosen Hillel Center, which opens fall ‘09
Establish integrated marketing and messaging to create Destination Temple
- New messaging campaign for enrollment management underway
- Communications strategies under discussion
- In January 2009, Temple began celebrating its 125-year history through special events and an anniversary web site including videos of cherished memories of alumni
- In May 2009, as part of the university’s 125th anniversary celebration, the Philadelphia skyline, including the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, the Cira Centre, Liberty Place and Boathouse row, was lit up in Temple cherry; and students, alumni and employees participated in a video contest
Inventory of Initiatives
Opportunities for Success
Research Excellence
Metro-Engagement
Global Commitment
Destination Temple (Compass Center)
Inventory of Initiatives, PDF
Executive Summary
Core Values
Opportunities for Success
Research Excellence
Metro-Engagement
Global Commitment
Destination Temple (Compass Center)
Executive Summary: Mapping a New Destiny (4/29/09), PDF |
