Monday, November 30, 2009

Temple U. Establishes Center to Study, Promote Diversity-Related Issues


Temple U. Establishes Center to Study, Promote Diversity-Related Issues: The discussion about race and the Philadelphia public school system had already lasted 20 minutes and Temple University students couldn't stop talking. A forum on the country's changing demographics hosted by the Philadelphia-based university's new diversity research center left the students with more to say.

'We didn't finish!' freshman communications major Nyidera Edwards said as the three-hour event concluded.

The session, attended by approximately 40 students, was one of the first events of Temple's Academic Center on Research in Diversity, or ACCORD, which launched this year.