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...
Philadelphia has been called The City of Neighborhoods and the smallest big city, and for good reason. Temple University College of Liberal Arts (CLA) students get to enjoy all the opportunities inherent in going to school in one of the country's largest cities while still feeling like they're part of a tight community. This semester, some students chose to make an impact on that community through a book drive at nearby Tree House Books, which gives out free books to North Philly kids.
This semester's book drive got started when CLA Enrollment Management Coordinator Darvin...
By: Nick Santangelo
Election Day 2019 has come and gone, but the nice thing about elections is that there's always another one on the way. And when Election Day 2020—and every election thereafter—comes along, the College of Liberal Arts would love to see a larger number of female candidates on ballots across the country. To that end, the Political Science Department's 2019 Featherman Lecture welcomed University of Virginia Professor Jennifer Lawless on campus to discuss why women often don't run for office and what happens when they do run.
Dr. Lawless opened...
By: Nick Santangelo
Election Day is here! While it might be tempting to turn your attention to the 2020 presidential election, several important races are taking place right now. Whether you're registered to vote in Philadelphia or somewhere else, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) urges you to get informed and get to the polls. Pennsylvania residents can check out the Committee of Seventy's website to review their ballot, and Philadelphia residents can find their voting place here.
But before you head out to the polls, you might still have a few questions about why...
Criminal Justice Professor Caterina Roman was recently featured in four different news articles. The topics include gun violence in Philadelphia and reducing drug-related crime in Kensington. See below for each article:
- Comments to Philly.com columnist Mike Newall on availability of guns and shootings of children
- Fear of crime and Trick-or-Treating
- The Temple News highlights new grant creating a research partnership between the PA Office of the Attorney General and Department of Criminal Justice
- Comments on the importance of studying the impact of...
By: Nick Santangelo
The College of Liberal Arts prepares students for their future lives and careers by exposing them to new perspectives and teaching them how to ask the right questions and think critically about the world around them. For many of our students, experiential learning is one of the best ways to build that skill set. And one of the college's myriad ways for students to learn outside the classroom is through the Intellectual Heritage Program's study abroad opportunities.
Intellectual Heritage (IH) began offering study abroad trips four years ago as...
For Halloween this year and as a preview for Dr. Terry Rey's first ever Zombie Apocalypse course, to be held during the Spring 2020 semester, members of the Religion Graduate Student Association (RELGSA) organized a zombie costume contest. Dr. Rey gave a quick lecture on the origins of zombies, both the word and the Haitian belief of zombification in Vodou, while students enjoyed free candy.
A recent publication provides new evidence of drivers influencing the spatial distribution of invasive disease species. Traditionally, scientists have used environmental data such as temperature, precipitation or vegetation to predict the area occupied by a given species. The paper, written by members from three colleges at Temple University, including Daniel Wiese (first author), Victor Gutierrez (senior author) and Kevin Henry from the GUS department, uses freely available data sets to show that in addition to environmental variables, neighborhood conditions...
By: Nick Santangelo
The spookiest time of the year is here, but College of Liberal Arts students don't have to leave campus and go door-to-door dressed as Spider-Man, El from Stranger Things or Pennywise from Stephen King's It to celebrate Halloween this year. For the seventh year in a row, Psychology Assistant Professor of Instruction David Waxler is holding his annual Halloween talk tonight, Oct. 30, at 6 p.m. in Basement Room 035 of Weiss Hall.
Co-sponsored by The Undergraduate Neuroscience Society and Nu Rho Psi (the Neuroscience honors society), this...
by Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi
October 28
By: Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi
The College of Liberal Arts' Professional Development team recently held its annual Internship Fair, giving students the chance to network with dozens of top employers and find internship opportunities. After having attended the fair, Eralinda Hasani, Lauren Steinberger and Darian Zenouzi (CLA students from Professor Gabe Wettach's English Career Seminar) share what they learned.
Lauren Steinberger | English Major | Senior
CLA Helps You Prepare
The welcoming atmosphere made me feel at ease. As...
By: Nick Santangelo
Perception can be a funny thing. For instance, Dave Lambert, CLA '83, says a common perception many would-be college students and their parents perceive studying the liberal arts as being akin to studying art appreciation. By that he means an education in the liberal arts is misperceived as being ill-suited for producing graduates who can experience successful, lucrative careers. But the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) sociology PhD graduate can speak from experience about how that's simply not the case.
"The thing about sociology, especially...
By: Nick Santangelo
It took a village, or, more precisely, a city. But for Anne Long, CLA '81 and '89, it also took a university and a lot of self-drive. Long, the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) 2019 Gallery of Success winner, describes herself as self-made, Philly-made and Temple-made. But these days, she's giving back to the "village," helping maximize opportunities for CLA students as the Board of Visitors' Chairperson since 2014.
Long credits the liberal arts with teaching students how to ask the right questions, how to learn and how to solve problems. They're skills...
On Monday October 14th by the Bell Tower, Temple Owls celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day. Sponsored in part by the Department of Religion, this event celebrated the original inhabitants of North America and it coincided with the opening of a contemporary Lenape art exhibit at the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) in Gladfelter Hall. Read the full article in the Temple News for more information on the art exhibit and Monday's event.
