To meet today's challenge, Temple must enroll and graduate more highly-satisfied undergraduate students. We must attract hundreds of highly qualified freshmen every year who will benefit from Temple's rigorous, high quality education and diversity, who will share their positive Temple experiences with others. We're proud of Temple students, and we want more of them. It's not simply a numbers game. Good students attract other good students.
Good students are more likely to remain, contribute and graduate.
So, our priority is to increase the number of undergraduates and to enhance Temple's academic reputation and mission. This can be accomplished by enrolling additional hundreds of very talented freshmen from all parts of our society, and by supporting and encouraging them to graduate in four years. Likewise, our present policy of encouraging good students to transfer to Temple should be matched by an administrative response that is faster, simpler and friendlier. It's indisputable that we need substantially more freshman. Today, I am appointing the formal implementation organization responsible for achieving these four priorities.