THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY KITCHEN, RAFFERTY, SOLOBAY, DINNIMAN, ARGALL, PILEGGI, COSTA, HUGHES, ERICKSON, FERLO, ALLOWAY, STACK, GREENLEAF, ORIE, BREWSTER, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE, LEACH AND M. WHITE, APRIL 12, 2011

INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, APRIL 12, 2011  

A RESOLUTION

Designating April 12, 2011, as "Temple University Day" in

Pennsylvania.

WHEREAS, Temple University is recognized as a leading public

research and academic institution in the City of Philadelphia

and throughout this Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, Temple University's 17 schools and colleges provide

highly valued employment, educational and research opportunities

at Center City, Ambler, University Hospital & Health Sciences

Center, Fort Washington and Harrisburg locations; and

WHEREAS, Offering 320 academic degree programs, including 7

first-professional degrees, and other professional, continuing

education and international programs, Temple University

currently enrolls 39,000 students; and

WHEREAS, One in every eight college graduates from the

greater Philadelphia region has earned a Temple University

degree; and

WHEREAS, Temple University annually generates $2.7 billion

for the Delaware Valley; and

WHEREAS, Temple University was founded in 1884 as a

nonsectarian institution for working-class students; and

WHEREAS, Then named the Temple College, the institution

originated from Russell Conwell's popular weekly tutoring

sessions at Grace Baptist Church in Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, Founding President Conwell believed greatness

"consists not in the holding of some future office, but really

consists in doing great deeds with little means and the

accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life,"

and he used his personal income to supply funding for

approximately 10,000 students of the nearly 100,000 students who

attended Temple during his 38-year presidency; and

WHEREAS, Incorporated in 1907 as a university, Temple has

operated since 1965 as a State-related university in our

Commonwealth's higher education system; and

WHEREAS, Approximately 12,000 students live on or around

Temple University's 105-acre main campus in the City of

Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, Temple University's 186-acre campus in suburban

Ambler confers degrees in community and regional planning,

horticulture and landscape architecture and offers other

certificate programs; and

WHEREAS, Fort Washington and Harrisburg campuses offer

various undergraduate, graduate and noncredit programs; and

WHEREAS, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Temple

University School of Medicine 56th in the nation among research

institutions; and

WHEREAS, Temple University School of Medicine is staffed by

453 full-time faculty, 67 part-time faculty, 1,164 volunteer

faculty and 869 staff members; and

WHEREAS, Temple University School of Medicine enjoys a close

educational and working relationship with the Temple University

Health System, comprising Temple University Hospital and its

Episcopal Campus, Jeanes Hospital and other major teaching

affiliates and community-based practices; and

WHEREAS, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine is

the only school of its kind nationwide to be attached to a major

university with a comprehensive allopathic academic health

sciences center; and

WHEREAS, Temple University Beasley School of Law's combined

2010 Pennsylvania Bar Exam pass rate of 92.05% exceeded the

Statewide average by 9%; and

WHEREAS, Temple University sponsors 24 varsity athletic

programs, serving more than 600 student athletes; and

WHEREAS, The name given to university teams, the Owls, refers

to the evening classes developed for working students of limited

means and invokes founder Russell Conwell's remark: "The owl of

the night makes the eagle of the day"; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the Senate designate April 12, 2011, as

"Temple University Day" in Pennsylvania.