New Temple President Creates Passport Fund

  

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - March 22, 2007 -- The newly installed president of Temple University, citing the need for students to become global citizens, has pledged to pay their passport fees.

Speaking in her investiture ceremony Thursday, Temple president Ann Weaver Hart urged students to study abroad or get a foreign internship.

"I am so convinced that this experience is essential to your education that my husband Randy and I will pay your passport fee," she said. "Internationalization will help you develop the point of view essential to contribute as citizens of the world and compete in the international marketplace."

The initiative, to begin this summer, will pay the fee for any Temple student getting a passport for the first time, said Hart.

New passports cost $97, according to the State Department Web site.

Hart, who came to Temple in July from the University of New Hampshire, is the school's ninth president. She is also the first woman to lead the campus of 34,000 students in Philadelphia.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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