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Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, then called Baptist Temple. Today, Temple is the List of colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, second-largest university in Pennsylvania by enrollment and awarded 9,128 degrees in the 2023–24 academic year. It has a worldwide alumni base of 378,012, with 352,175 alumni residing in the United States. The university consists of 17 schools and colleges, including five professional schools, offering over 640+ academic programs and over 160 undergraduate majors. about 30,005 undergraduate, graduate and professional students were enrolled at the university. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral U ...
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Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ...
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio and the Ohio River to its west, Lake Erie and New York (state), New York to its north, the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east, and the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest via Lake Erie. Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of William Penn (Royal Navy officer), the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish Empire, Swedish colony. Established as a haven for religious and political tolerance, the B ...
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Temple University, Japan Campus
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is an international campus of Temple University (located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States). TUJ is located in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo and Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is the oldest and largest foreign university in Japan, with approximately 1,840 matriculated undergraduate students, of which approximately 40% are from Japan. The university offers degree programs, including an AA, BA, MSEd, in TESOL, PhD in Applied Linguistics, Master in Management (MiM), and LLM, and offers semester and year-long study abroad programs for U.S. undergraduate and law students. In addition, TUJ offers non-degree programs including the Academic English Program (AEP), Continuing Education, and Corporate Education. As of 2022, TUJ enrolled 2,071 degree-seeking students: 1,841 undergraduates and 230 graduate students and 8 Boyer College of Music and Dance (Music Therapy) students. Non-degree enrollment totals more than 2,155, including 1,205 Academic E ...
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Temple University Rome
Temple University Rome is one of the two international campuses (the other being Temple University, Japan Campus) of Temple University, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the center of Rome, Italy, it was founded in 1966, making it one of the oldest American university programs in Italy. Its first cohort consisted of 24 undergraduates and 12 graduate students in the fall of 1966. In 1990, the campus established the Gallery of Art, an exhibition space for guest artists, faculty, and students. The space has forged relationships with commercial galleries, the Roman art academies and the general art community. In the Fall of 2024, Temple Rome moved to a new, central location, establishing its new campus at Piazza di Spagna—one of the most notable landmarks in the Eternal City and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Facilities include state-of-the-art classrooms, art studios and an art gallery, a science lab, a conference center, a library, and open-air terraces ...
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Harrisburg, PA
Harrisburg ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat, seat of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Dauphin County. With a population of 50,099 as of 2020 United States census, 2020, Harrisburg is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, ninth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, also known as the Susquehanna Valley, which had a population of 591,712 in 2020 and is the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, fourth-most populous metro area in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is situated on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, southwest of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown and northwest of Philadelphia. Harrisburg played a role in American history during the American frontier, Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the 19th century ...
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Temple University Ambler
Temple University Ambler is a suburban campus of Temple University. The Ambler campus is located 30 minutes outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. While its postal address is in Ambler, Pennsylvania, it is actually in Upper Dublin Township. It has 2,950 undergraduate and 962 graduate students, with a 3:4 male/female ratio (60% female). The campus is , including the Landscape Arboretum, and includes two residence halls. On campus, there are 30 student organizations. The campus offers 21 bachelor's degree programs—8 majors and 13 minors—as well as one associate degree program. Bachelor's degree programs The following 8 bachelor's degrees are offered at the Ambler campus: *Accounting *Business Management *Horticulture *Human Resource Management *Landscape Architecture *Liberal Arts-Interdisciplinary Studies *Marketing *Psychology Students can begin more than 100 bachelor's degree programs and take courses at any of Temple's campuses, inclu ...
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Center City, Philadelphia
Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the area that made up the City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854, which extended the city borders to be coterminous with Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County. The area has grown to the second-most densely populated downtown area in the United States (after Midtown Manhattan in New York City), with an estimated 202,000 residents in 2020 and a population density of 26,234 per square mile. Geography Boundaries Center City is bounded by South Street (Philadelphia), South Street to the south, the Delaware River to the east, the Schuylkill River to the west, and Vine Street to the north. The district occupies the old boundaries of the City of Philadelphia before Act of Consolidation, 1854, the city was made coterminous with Philadelphia County in 1854. The Center City District, which has special powers of taxa ...
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Great Horned Owl
The great horned owl (''Bubo virginianus''), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is Leporidae, rabbits and hares, New World rats and mice, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. In ornithological study, the great horned owl is often compared to the Eurasian eagle-owl (''Bubo bubo''), a closely related species, which occupies the same ecological niche in Eurasia despite its notably larger size. The great horned owl is also compared to the red-tailed hawk (''Buteo jamaicensis''), with which it often shares similar habitat, prey, and nesting habits by day ...
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The Temple News
''The Temple News'' (''TTN'') is the editorially independent bi-weekly newspaper of Temple University. It prints 2,000 copies to be distributed primarily on Temple's Main Campus every other Tuesday. A staff of 36, supported by more than 150 writers, is responsible for designing, reporting and editing the bi-weekly paper. Increasingly, ''TTN'' is supplementing its bi-weekly print product with breaking news and online-only content on its web site. In 2023, the paper's efforts garnered nine Keystone Press Awards. The previous year, the paper's staff won 13 Keystones. In November 2008, the paper's web site, temple-news.com, was honored with the 2008 National Online Pacemaker Award, and has also won the print counterpart, a National Pacemaker Award, both awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press. History ''Temple University Weekly'' first appeared on Monday, Sept. 19, 1921. It was led by an alumni editor and fully supported by the university, though student writers were responsib ...
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Temple Owls
The Temple Owls are the college athletics, athletic teams that represent Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The current athletic director is Arthur Johnson (athletic director), Arthur Johnson. The owl has been the symbol and mascot for Temple University since its founding in the 1880s. Temple was the first school in the United States to adopt the owl as its symbol or mascot. The owl, a nocturnal hunter, was initially adopted as a symbol because Temple University began as a night school for young people of limited means. Russell Conwell, Temple's founder, encouraged these students with the remark: "The owl of the night makes the eagle of the day." Affiliation The Owls are primarily members of the American Athletic Conference (The American). Since their Temple Owls football, football team participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's Division I (NCAA)#Football Bowl Subdivision, Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The football program was a m ...
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City 6
The City 6 is an informal association of college athletic programs in the Philadelphia area. It is an intra-city intramural competition, but it is also used as a colloquial term to describe all the NCAA Division I schools in the Philadelphia area. The colleges in the City 6 are all of the traditional Philadelphia Big 5 schools—La Salle Explorers, La Salle University, Saint Joseph's Hawks, Saint Joseph's University (SJU), Temple Owls, Temple University, the Penn Quakers, University of Pennsylvania, and Villanova Wildcats, Villanova University—along with Drexel Dragons, Drexel University, which was formally added to the Big 5 rivalry after the 2022–23 basketball season. The City 6 Extramural Classic features the best Intramural sports, intramural teams from each school competing against one another. The classic was founded in 1986 by representatives from Saint Joseph's and Temple. Games between the intramural programs are held at such locations as SJU's Hagan Arena, Penn's Fra ...
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Philadelphia Big 5
The Philadelphia Big 5, known simply as the "Big 5", is an association of six college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is not a conference, but rather a group of NCAA Division I basketball schools who compete for the city’s collegiate championship. The Big 5 originally consisted of Penn, La Salle, Saint Joseph's, Temple, and Villanova. At the start of the 2023–24 season, the Big 5 expanded to include Drexel. Drexel, La Salle, Penn, Saint Joseph's, and Temple are located in the city of Philadelphia, while Villanova is located in a nearby Main Line suburb of the same name. Three of the six schools (La Salle, Saint Joseph's and Villanova) are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, while Temple is the only public university in the group. From its founding in 1955 until 2023, the five teams teams played each other once in a round-robin format to determine the Big 5 champion. The team(s) with the best record was then determined as the Big 5 champio ...
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