NYT: TUJ among American campuses abroad offering degrees

Temple University, Japan Campus, was featured prominently in a New York Time's "Education Life" story on American universities offering degree programs abroad. TUJ opened in Tokyo in 1982 as the first and largest foreign university in Japan. For many of its American students, according to the dean, Bruce Stronach, Temple Japan has been their first-choice college: "They want to study Japanese and/or Asian studies in situ or either live or have parents who are posted closer to Tokyo than Philadelphia." With safety warnings from the State Department, regular classes were suspended and the spring study-abroad program canceled, and about 220 of Temple's American students left the country. But undergraduate classes resumed on April 4, and two-thirds of students returned. With new programs on the drawing board for fall, Temple looks forward to increasing synergy between campuses.
April 17, 2011 | New York Times