A January decision by a US court to grant German homeschoolers political asylum has encouraged other Germans engaged in a decade-long losing battle against their government to take the same action and move their families to the United States. “Homeschoolers are a movement of sorts,” says Peter Spiro, an expert on international immigration law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law School. “The immigration judge looking at this claim said there is a coherence to this group ... and that denying the rights of this group [to homeschool] is persecution.”

March 1, 2010 | Human Resource Executive

When college senior Katharine Harned walked into a Target store last year, she wasn't shopping for household items, a pair of sunglasses or a new video game. That's because she was enrolled in an undergraduate class at Temple University called HR on the Ground, where her time was split between classroom discussion and working as an HR consultant for Target. The class is offered as an elective for undergraduate business students, and Human Resources Management Professor Katherine Nelson believes the course has been a place for non-HR students to get a taste of HR -- and possibly pick it as their career. "It's so much more interesting than interviewing someone at a job fair," says Nelson.