Daily News | Temple U. is a campus in crisis. Jason Wingard is the wrong choice to fix it
after the leader of its faculty union made a stunning call for a vote of “no confidence” in the school’s president, Jason Wingard, and two of his top administrators.
after a career with one foot in academia and the other on Wall Street — as “absent” in this moment of chaos.“We don’t see him engaged in the important work of running a big university,” Doshna said, echoing complaints from others on campus. He also said he thinks Not surprisingly, Wingard — who has positioned himself as a thought leader in reinventing the American university — aggressively defended himselfthis week to my Inquirer colleague Susan Snyder. He said the problems of falling enrollment and revenue he encountered when arriving in 2021 required tough choices, adding: “Like any hard decisions, they are unpopular and often misunderstood. But they are critical for the future success and longevity of the university.
, I agree with Wingard’s critics. Temple’s salvation isn’t the wizardry of 2023 education technology, but rediscovering the spirit of 1884.The recent problems at Temple resonate because so many of us here in the Philadelphia region understand the 139-year-old institution as a civic gem, even as it grapples with problems from the rising costs of college toIt’s something I’ve felt strongly after I adopted this region as my home.
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