Temple s programs of research, scholarship, and creative activity must be maintained and strengthened. This requires Temple to invest heavily in its own facilities for research, from libraries to laboratories, and in its faculty. Faculty must have adequate time to expand knowledge as well as to teach it. Good teaching always draws on new scholarship. To improve student performance, Temple needs to have a clearly-focused set of curricular requirements .
Faculty have to be in the forefront of setting standards.
We should make it easier to navigate the maze of core requirements but not at the same time water down the quality of our graduates by cutting out topics that faculty deem essential. Temple faculty members have to remain accessible to students, who praise this feature of our institution. But faculty burdened by unreasonable teaching loads do not have time to be accessible or to help students with their plans and ambitions, as well as their coursework and research. Temple needs to maintain its strong tenure and peer review system . We should resist pressures to revise it merely to accommodate the wishes of industry or politicians.