A Message from the Director
Dear Honors Alumni,
At last, the first Honors Alumni newsletter since the formation of Temple University Honors in 1987. We thought it was about time to create an Honors network!
Everyone here is looking forward to homecoming weekend, where there will be an Honors Alumni gathering on October 11. Hopefully we'll see you there!
In other news, physics hero Dieter Forster is the Honors Professor of 2014! Could an appearance on The Big Bang Theory be in his stars? Additionally, Honors alumni Jason Chein, Jeff Boles and Crystal Harold are now teachers in the honors program—students love their courses.
We'd love to hear about your lives and what you are up to these days. Make sure to update your alumni contact information so we can stay in touch.
Best always,
Ruth
Save the Date: Honors Alumni Homecoming Gathering, October 11
Saturday, October 11, 2014 | 6 p.m.
Join fellow Honors alumni at the Honors Lounge (204 Tuttleman Learning Center, Temple University) for a lecture and an informal cocktail reception after the Homecoming game! More details to follow.
Graduation year: Journalism 2003, History 2007
Hometown: Lititz, Pennsylvania
Current position: Director of Communications and Brand Marketing, Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation
Current Location: Philadelphia (East Falls neighborhood)
What is one of your favorite memories about Temple Honors?
Oh gosh, everything. All my memories of Temple are pretty much inextricably linked to Honors. I will say that the experience of living on the Honors floor in Johnson Hall (during the days of no-air conditioning, I might add) throughout my freshman year really set the stage for an incredible college experience. The friends I met in Honors were and are quirky, brilliant, passionate, curious and best of all, loyal. I’m friends with many of them today.
Professor Spotlight: Crystal Harold
School/college: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Temple Honors alumna: Yes
Graduation year: Psychology 2000
What course(s) do you teach in the Honors Program?
I currently teach HRM 3904: The Leadership Experience—Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Communities.
What is your favorite thing about teaching Honors courses?
I love that Honors allows me to teach a course where a primary emphasis is promoting student self-awareness, growth and development of a personal leadership philosophy. Because this class is an elective, there isn’t a set curriculum that I have to follow. This allows for extraordinary freedom to let the course sort of organically unfold in a way that I think really maximizes student learning and development.
Read Assistant Professor Harold’s full interview.
Have Opportunities for Interns or Volunteers?
Beginning this summer, University Honors students were offered Summer Educational Enhancement stipends to spend the summer advancing their educational goals through funded experiential-learning opportunities. These stipends are intended to offset the costs of pursuing such unpaid opportunities, and may be used for approved study abroad, faculty-mentored research or unpaid internships.
If you, your company or someone you know would like to support this program by providing an internship, volunteer opportunity or research position, we would love to hear about it! Let us know at honors@temple.edu.
Learn more about the Summer Educational Enhancement stipends.