美国天普大学前教务长（执行副校长）戴海龙声明

(2016年7月21日)

对天普大学的教职员工、学生、校友及广大关心天普未来的人们，我衷心感谢大家在过去一个月以来对我的支持和关心；同时，我也向天普大学董事会最近采取的具有道德勇气的行动致以衷心感谢！

校长的变更对任何一所大学来说都是一件极其严肃的事件。但作为一所以发现和传播知识及真理为使命的高等学府，大学的灵魂在于其价值观和原则，唯有坚守这些价值观和原则，不管经历何种变革，这所大学都能越来越好，越来越强！我们感谢董事会给予天普大学持续实现其使命的重生机会。

我非常感谢在过去四年中能在教务长的岗位中有机会为天普大学及其“有教无类”、“迈向卓越”的使命服务。我的任命始于2012年夏天，当时大学代理校长Richard Englert宣布了对我的任命。在我任职期间，天普大学在学术上取得了有目共睹的巨大进步。

这些显著的进步，是大学的院长、教职员工、学生、校友们和教务长办公室的同事们持续携手努力工作的结果。

早在2012年夏天，我们就建立了包括“选择天普”在内的成功招生战略，为天普带来了持续的学生人数增加；

2012年7月，在我担任教务长主持的第一次院长会议上，我们制定了提高大学排名的目标并启动了相关战略；

2010年天普科技学院成功创立了“专注学习奖学金”项目，据此，教务长办公室和院长们一起设计了协助学生成功的“四年腾飞”项目，对天普大学科技学院之前成功执行的相关项目在全校扩大并推广，取得了巨大的成功；

2012年春天，董事会提供特别经费，协助聘请世界知名教授加盟天普。此外，天普医疗系统也积极做出行动，包括收购负有盛名的福克斯大通癌症中心，为天普大学的科研进步作出了贡献…..

我向所有在我任职教务长期间为提升天普大学学术地位做出贡献的同事们致以诚挚的感谢！我相信，在同事JoAnne Epps的领导下，“有教无类”、“步入卓越”的使命将持续蓬勃发展。

尽管不再担任教务长职务，我很自豪，像许多同仁一样，我们关心天普并为她的成功做出了无私的奉献。为了天普大学的持续进步与卓越，我将一如既往，尽我所能，努力奉献（完）

Statement by Hai-Lung Dai, former Temple Provost on July 21, 2016

I am grateful to Temple’s faculty, staff, students and alumni and the larger Temple community who have been concerned about the future of Temple University for the support they have shown me during the last month. I am also grateful to the Board of Trustees for its most recent morally courageous acts.

Changing the presidency is a grave matter for any university. The soul of an institution of higher learning with a mission to discover and disseminate knowledge as truth is and should be embedded in its values and principles. So long as these values and principles are upheld, the institution will become better and stronger. We are grateful that the Board has given the University this opportunity to recover and continue to fulfill its mission.

I have very much appreciated the opportunity to serve Temple University and its mission of ‘access to excellence’ over the last four years in the capacity of Provost. My tenure began in the summer of 2012 when then acting President Richard Englert appointed me interim provost. Over this period of time Temple University has seen enormous change and growth in its academics including:

This phenomenal progress is the result of thecontinuous effortof the deans, faculty, staff and even students and alums working hand in hand with the Office of the Provost. The enrollment strategy, including the concept that later becamethe ‘Temple Option’, that led to the recruitment success we have seenwas firstconceived during the summer of 2012. The goals and strategies for improving ranking were initiated in a Council of Deans meeting (chaired by Provost at Temple)in July of 2012. The Fly-in-4 program for student success was devised jointly by the Provost Staff and the deans with the Study Grant component modelled after a program previously implemented in the College of Science and Technology. A major resource for hiring faculty was provided by the Board of Trusteesby special action in the spring of 2012. And the significant progress made by the Temple health enterprise, including the acquisition of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, has contributed to the success in research.

I want to express my personal gratitude to all those who contributed so much to raise Temple’s academic profileduring my term as its Provost. I am confident the mission of ‘access to excellence’ will continue to flourish in the able hands of my colleague JoAnne Epps.

Though I am no longer the Provost, I am proud as one among many who care about Temple and have contributed selflessly to its success. I will continue to assist in whatever way possibleto ensure the University’s wellbeing and its continuing mission of access and excellence.