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Campaign Priorities: Supporting faculty

The quality of Temple's faculty is absolutely central to the quality of the University as a whole and to the educational experience it provides. Faculty members mentor and inspire students, shape the curriculum, drive the research program, and bring recognition and funding to the University. They are responsible for the academic rigor that stands behind the value of a Temple degree.

An Exceptional Time

Temple is hiring faculty members at a rate unprecedented in its history and rare in higher education today—in recent years as many as 70 to 80 new professors annually. Many of these new arrivals are replacing retirees. Others are filling positions added in response to expanding enrollment. In every case, the University is conducting national searches to identify outstanding candidates. "The people we hire today will shape the future of the University," says President Ann Weaver Hart. "We set out to find the very best, and we are succeeding."

Impressive Credentials

Temple is adding faculty at all ranks, from newly minted Ph.D.s to highly regarded senior faculty leaving tenured positions at other institutions. These institutions include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Chicago, as well as great public research universities such as Michigan, Berkeley, and Wisconsin.

The Power of Endowment

Endowed professorships stand out as particularly powerful tools for recruiting excellent faculty, and essential ones for attracting candidates at the very top of their fields. Historically, Temple has had relatively few endowed positions, just 35 compared with approximately 130 at the University of Pittsburgh and nearly 300 at Pennsylvania State University. For this reason, adding new endowed professorships and chairs is a central campaign goal.

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