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Student Center exterior Our centers and institutes offer exceptional opportunities for faculty and students to engage in multidisciplinary research, scholarship and service in a variety of subject areas, including basic and applied and social sciences, business, education and health.
Center for Frontier Sciences
Center for Intergenerational Learning
Center for Public Health
Center for Research in Human Development and Education
Center for Social Policy and Community Development
Center for Sustainable Communities
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute
Institute on Aging
Institute for Business and Information Technology
Institute on Disabilities
Institute for Public Affairs
Institute for Survey Research
Labor Education Program
Pan-African Studies Community Education Program
Small Business Development Center
The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
The mission of the Center for Frontier Sciences is to globally network and exchange information on the frontier issues of science, medicine and technology. The Center is dedicated to the open and unbiased examination of theories, hypotheses, or models that challenge prevailing scientific ideas. The Center does not promote any positions, but instead encourages critical review.
In 11 years, the Center has hosted 58 lectures, nine international conferences, published two proceedings and has issued 14 volumes of its journal, Frontier Perspectives. The Center provides an international network for information sharing on the frontier issues of science, medicine and technology. The lecture series have provided local scientists with an avenue to discuss issues. By providing video copies of the lectures, the Center for Frontier Sciences is able to expand its sphere of influence.
Center for Frontier Sciences
Temple University
Ritter Hall 003-00, Room 478
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-8487
Fax: 215-204-5553
http://www.temple.edu/CFS
Center for Intergenerational Learning
The Center for Intergenerational Learning began in 1979. Its primary mission is to address the social issues affecting vulnerable populations of people by fostering partnerships between organizations in the youth/family and aging networks. The goals of the Center are to:
- Collaborate with cross-generational groups to address community concerns
- Raise public awareness of the importance of service in the community
- Foster partnerships between the generations
- Develop new inter-generational programs
- Provide evaluation of new models and programs
- Strengthen the capacity of organizations to provide services
Increase the understanding of the impact of inter-generational activities.
Center for Intergenerational Learning
1601 North Broad Street, Room 206
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-6970
FAX: 215-204-6733
http://www.temple.edu/CIL
The Center for Public Health fosters multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, educators and community practitioners to increase the quality and years of healthy life for all Americans, to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health status and to promote population health regionally and globally.
The Center for Public Health brings together community and academic partners to collaborate on research, program evaluation and continuing professional education designed to meet community needs. for strengthening communities.
The Center for Public Health
Temple University
313 Vivacqua Hall (062-56)
1700 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pa. 19122-0843
Telephone: 215-204-6138
Fax: 215-204-5553
http://www.temple.edu/publichealth
Center for Research in Human Development and Education
The Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE) was begun in 1986. The Center's primary objective is to investigate the emerging and pressing problems and life challenges facing children, youth, and families, particularly those who live in economically and educationally disadvantaged circumstances.
The Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE) is a broad-based, interdisciplinary research and development center. CRHDE researchers engage in long-term programmatic research and innovative development projects to identify and shape effective responses through far-reaching changes in institutional policies and practices that work across the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines and professional schools.
The Center for Research in Human Development and Education also houses the Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), one of ten regional educational laboratories financed by the United States Department of Education.
Center for Research in Human Development and Education
Temple University
933 Ritter Annex 004-00
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-3000
Fax: 215-204-5130
Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091
Phone: (800) 892-5550
Fax: 215-204-5130
http://www.temple.edu/LSS
Center for Social Policy and Community Development
The Center for Social Policy and Community Development (CSPCD) of Temple University was established in 1969 to increase the University's responsiveness to the surrounding neighborhood. Today CSPCD’s mission is furthered by combining the social concerns of the community—strengthening its capacity to meet social, economic and educational challenges—with the service goals of the University. CSPCD develops educational and training programs, addresses public policy issues, and offers students and faculty various research opportunities.
The five major units of the CSPCD are:
1. The Child Welfare Training and Research Institute (CWTRI)
2. The Human Resource Development Institute (HRDI)
3. Continuing Education Unit
4. Research and Evaluation Unit
5. Community Development and Technical Assistance Unit
Center for Social Policy and Community Development
University Services Building
1601 North Broad Street, Room 100
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-7491
Center for Sustainable Communities
The Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University
Ambler was established in July 2000 to develop and promote new approaches to protect and preserve quality of life through sustainable development.
A working resource for government agencies, community organizations, and developers, the Center provides objective information and services to improve decision-making relative to land use and water resources planning and development. The Center conducts interdisciplinary research and offers
educational and community outreach programs.
Center for Sustainable Communities
Temple University, Ambler College
580 Meetinghouse Road
Ambler, PA 19002
267-468-8311, 8312, or 8314, 267-468-8315 (Fax)
www.csc.temple.edu
The Institute on Aging was begun in 1978. The mission of the Institute on Aging (IOA) is to improve the quality of life of the elderly and their families through developing the capacity of the University to understand and be responsive to the problems and potential of the elderly and those who serve them. The mission is characterized by research to increase the knowledge base, transmission of the information through education programs, and the application of the knowledge.
Institute on Aging
1601 N. Broad Street, Room 206 (083-40),
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6099
215 204-6834 phone
215-204-6733 fax
www.temple.edu/aging
Temple University's Institute on Disabilities (IOD) began in 1973 to support individuals with disabilities in their pursuit of interdependence, contribution, and inclusion. The Institute is federally authorized under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, as Pennsylvania’s University Affiliated Program (UAP). IOD’s programs work in partnership with people with disabilities, their families, advocacy organizations and service providers to provide training, technical assistance, direct services and supports, research, dissemination of information, and advocacy.
The Institute on Disabilities/UAP
Temple University
Room 423 Ritter Annex
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215- 204-1356 (voice/TTY)
Fax: 215- 204-6336
http://disabilities.temple.edu
Pan-African Studies Community Education Program
The Pan-African Studies Community Education Program was founded in 1975 to provide continuing and basic adult education services to members of the community at nominal cost. Through the cooperative efforts of the University—which furnishes needed resources—and volunteer instructors, a myriad of desired services are rendered:
- basic adult literacy preparation
- courses to prepare adults for the General Educational Development (GED) Examination
- life skills, college preparatory, liberal arts and technical education
- tutorial services
- educational counseling and referral services to students
- free public seminars and forums for the community and university
- prison education programs
- collaborative projects with campus and community organizations
- consultancy resource sharing with small community-based organizations, schools and libraries
- continuing education unit courses
- service learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students through teaching, and tutoring
Pan African Studies Community Education Program
Temple University
840 Anderson Hall 022-74
1115 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215-204-1993
Fax: 215-204-8171
www.temple.edu/pascep/
Temple University’s Institute for Public Affairs generates, supports, and disseminates research on important social, economic, and political problems, with an emphasis on research that can shape public policy.
In support of that mission:
- IPA forges connections among students, scholars, policymakers, and citizens, to produce research that can provide an empirical foundation for public policy
- IPA devotes particular attention to issues confronting the City of Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- IPA provides support for collaborative, interdisciplinary research involving scholars from any of Temple’s sixteen schools and colleges
- IPA involves students – graduate and undergraduate – in its research projects in order to help train the next generation of scholars and to educate the next generation of citizens and policymakers
The Institute for Public Affairs
Temple University
University Services Building, First Floor
1601 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pa. 19122
Telephone: 215-204-9211
Fax: 215-204-7779
www.temple.edu/ipa/Home/
The Labor Education Program was founded in 1988 to provide education and training for trade unionists, dislocated workers and community groups.
Education and training programs are designed to assist the leaders and members of unions to function more effectively on the job and in their labor management relations. Programs for dislocated workers provide educational opportunities so that unemployed people receive the retraining needed to secure a job. The Program also develops materials for local school districts dealing with workers, their unions and the American Labor Movement.
Labor Education Program
Temple University Center City
1616 Walnut Street
Room 515 300-00
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Telephone: 215-204-5619
Fax: 215-2045813
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Temple University’s Institute for Survey Research of has provided research services to the public and private sectors since its founding in 1967. The Institute has conducted hundreds of studies across a broad spectrum of health, population, and environmental issues working under grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
ISR provides high quality survey research services to social science colleagues around the country, state, and region. To this end, ISR offers all research services, including study design, survey sampling, data collection and processing, creation and maintenance of databases, statistical analyses, and report writing.
We offer a full range of survey capabilities:
- computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)
- computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI)
- paper and pencil surveys
- mail surveys
- focus groups
- program evaluation studies
- statistical sampling
- data preparation, processing, cleaning
- analysis and reporting
Institute for Survey Research
1601 N. Broad Street Ste. 502
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone:215-204-8355
FAX:215-204-4416
Center for African American History and Culture
Begun in 1989, the Center for African American History and Culture (CAAHC) is a national research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and research in African American history and culture and to providing its rich academic resources to Temple students and faculty, visiting scholars and the greater academic community.
In addition to providing lectures and demonstrations on the use of its collections, the CAAHC offers workshops for Temple faculty and students on research methodology in African American history using the Pennsylvania black history database and the Center's collections of primary sources.
Weiss Hall, Suite B-18,
13th and Cecil B. Moore Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19122
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Telephone: 215-204-4851
Fax: 215-204-3794
Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
In May 1990, Temple University created the Center for American Jewish History. Established to insure that American Jewish History continues as a subject of active research and documentation, the Center is an academic unit of the Department of History in Temple's College of Liberal Arts.
The Myer and Rosaline Feinstein
Center for American Jewish History
Temple University
1515 Market Street, Suite 215
Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Tel: 215 204-9552
Fax: 215 204-5813
Email: Dr. Michael Alexander
The Murray Friedman Professor in American Jewish History
Director, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
Small Business Development Center
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) helps small businesses succeed and grow by offering free one-on-one business consulting and low cost training to aspiring entrepreneurs in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its activities, the Center contributes to the stability of the business community by providing high quality business training and consulting for people running small businesses and for people who want to start small businesses.
Small Business Development Center
1510 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19121
Tel: (215) 204 - 7282
Fax: (215) 204-4554.
SBDC@sbm.temple.edu.
www.temple.edu/sbdc
