Isabelle Chang examines the relationship between executive function and reading comprehension outcomes throughout elementary school on Consortium for Policy Research in Education podcast. You can view and listen to the full podcast.
By: Nick Santangelo
Liberal arts students aren't content to settle. At Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA), they pursue critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to help them launch careers that are as fulfilling as they are successful. That's why it's so important for our students to begin developing professionally before they leave campus.
Recognizing this, Alex Rocca, CLA '17, enrolled in Professional Development for History Majors during her final semester. The lessons Rocca learned in the course were strong enough that she landed an internship...
As we enter 2020, we're reminded to reflect on all of CLA's achievements from last year. Something we're especially proud of in 2019 is Temple's ever growing Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, headquartered here at the College of Liberal Arts. This program—designed to bring together students and incarcerated individuals to learn inside of a prison or jail—has trained more than 1,000 educators from 47 states and 11 countries since 2004. Nearly 40,000 students from both sides of prison walls have experienced an education that prioritizes dialogue, humanization and civic...
The PA Department of Health, with funding from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Program (CURE), has awarded Criminal Justice Professor Steven Belenko a four-year grant for research entitled, Enhancing Healthy Reintegration and Recovery for High-Risk Opioid Users. The project will test a new intervention to link people with opioid use disorders returning to Philadelphia from prison or jail to comprehensive treatment services at Temple University Health System. CLA affiliated Co-Investigators are Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman and...
It is with great sadness to announce the passing of Elmer Miller, Professor Emeritus and former Anthropology Department chair. You can read his full obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
By: Nick Santangelo
Over 130 students participated in the Fox School of Business' 22nd annual Innovative Idea Competition this year, many of them business students from Fox. But senior economics major Zimri Hinshaw's Bucha Leather Company beat them all out for the right to have his idea germinated in Fox's innovation and entrepreneurship institute, the 1810 Accelerator. In winning, Hinshaw became the second College of Liberal Arts student to succeed in the entrepreneurial competition in as many years.
"Just because I'm a CLA student doesn't mean I'm not a...
The College of Liberal Arts is proud to announce that Africology and African American Studies Chair Molefi Kete Asante has won the National Communication Association's 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award! The award—the highest accolade given by the association—is given annually to honor a lifetime of scholarly achievement by a recipient in the field of human communication.
Calling Dr. Asante's work "spectacular" and "profound," the National Communication Association bestowed the award upon the professor at its annual convention in Baltimore. The department chair and...
Criminal Justice Professor Steven Belenko was recently quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The article focuses on District Attorney Larry Krasner's new plan to drop low-level drug charges in favor of addiction treatment. Read the full article titled Inside Philly DA Larry Krasner's new plan to drop low-level drug charges in favor of addiction treatment.
Temple University's religion professors and graduate students attended the annual American Academy of Religion Conference, November 23-26, 2019. A number of them partook in the fun by presenting papers, presiding over panels and responding to other panelists. If you could not attend this year, stop by the 6th floor of Anderson Hall to ask your professors and TAs about their contributions at #AARSBL19!
Joyce K. Salzberg, CLA '69, SSW '79, an alumna with a long history of giving back to Temple University, is supporting a professional development center within the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) with a major naming gift.
To honor Salzberg's exceptional commitment to the college and its students, the center will be renamed the Joyce K. Salzberg Center for Professional Development. Currently located in Paley Hall, the center will move to a new space in Gladfelter Hall in fall 2020.
"Joyce Salzberg has been incredibly supportive of CLA for many years, and this...
By: Nick SantangeloThanksgiving is less than a week away! Are you and your family ready? The College of Liberal Arts wants all our students, alumni, future students, faculty and staff to enjoy a great holiday break. To help you do it, we're sharing a few of our Thanksgiving recipes. Give them a try and see if one of our favorite traditions becomes one of your family's favorites. Happy Thanksgiving!Richard Deeg | Dean, College of Liberal ArtsAlthough it's not necessarily the traditional German Thanksgiving dinner, at our house we have bratwurst (bought from Kamarzuk's Deli), hot...
On November 9, the Master of Public Policy Program welcomed professionals, several of them College of Liberal Arts alumni, on campus for its Careers in Public Service Workshop. The workshop gave students an idea of what different government, nonprofit and private careers are like while sharing advice on how they can launch their own careers after graduation. Continue reading for 10 lessons learned by four of the graduate students who attended the workshop.
Shannon Connell-Robichaud
Communication Is Key
While the skills you'll learn in the MPP Program (like how...
Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman has received funding from the City of Philadelphia District Attorney Office for Performance Measurement Support and Internal Evaluation of the DAO's CARES Strategy. The Co-PI on the grant is Criminal Justice Associate Professor E. Rely Vilcica.
Congratulations, Dr. Roman and Dr. Vilcica!
One of the ways prisons function is to cut off access between those living inside of them from those living on the outside. Temple University's Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program does something different: it connects those inside and outside and fosters collaborative communication and education opportunities. It does so by bringing together incarcerated students and traditional students and having the two groups learn side-by-side in correctional facility classrooms. It's a model that's been so effective that it's experienced a prolific spread to other institutions.
The idea...
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Mary Washington Dr. Jennifer Barry visited Temple University as a guest lecturer on November 14 to discuss her book Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity. Dr. Barry is a scholar of Early Christianity and it was our honor to have had the opportunity to hear about her wonderful work directly from her!
Professor Robin Mitchell-Boyask was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies, the largest and most important such organization in the world. Congratulations!
By: Nick Santangelo
Every student knows the bullseye brand. But did you know that Target is a lot more than just stores? A group of 22 College of Liberal Arts juniors found out as much firsthand during Professional Development's Experience Target Day last Thursday. Below, three of those students share their top takeaways from the event.
Jessi Gourdier | English Major
Target Cares About Its Employees
Target has increased its minimum starting pay to $13.00 an hour. This is more than some people make as managers at some competitors. In addition to a considerably high...
Congratulations to Stanley J. Konoval and Jason Cutmore for winning the Philosophy Department's Nordev Prize for the strongest prelim essays in the fall of 2019. Stanley's submission (in the history of philosophy) is entitled "Ascending and Descending Causality: Epigenesis and Mechanical Inexplicability in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment." Jason's paper (submitted as a contemporary paper) is entitled "After 'High' Art: An Ontology of Musical Kinds." The committee found both papers to be deserving and decided to split the prize this year. View Jason and...
By: Nick Santangelo
Until 1954, Veterans Day was known as Armistice Day, marking the moment when major WWI hostilities ended in the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But this year, Veterans Day also marks 18 years since 9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror.
"That's the longest war, by far, that America has ever fought in," says United States Air Force Colonel Cory Hollon. "It's important now to recognize the sacrifice of those people who have spent a lot of time overseas fighting our nation's wars."
To Hollon, Veterans Day is all about history and...
