Temple will kick off a $100 million fund-raising campaign in the fall specifically targeted at financial aid, as it continues a concerted effort to roll back the cost of education. Temple wants to become a rigorous participant in the growing national conversation to address the ever-increasing cost of higher education and the resulting, back-breaking debt incurred by students, said Patrick O'Connor, chairman of Temple's board of trustees.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda won parliamentary approval for his bill to raise the country’s sales tax for the first time in 15 years, a move that split his ruling party and weakened its election prospects. “Getting this controversial bill, a major legislative accomplishment, through a hung parliament should burnish Noda’s credentials,” said Jeff Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus.

With budget cuts hitting law-enforcement agencies, residents increasingly are taking matters into their own hands by hiring private security firms. Today there are three times more private security guards as there are federal, state and local law-enforcement agents, said Simon Hakim, director of Temple's Center for Competitive Government.