Fry said Drexel has benefited from an extensive safety network in its West Philadelphia neighborhood, and once on the ground at Temple, he'd like to start building one there.
He wants to ride with university police and get to know the neighborhood.John A. Fry recalled a conversation he had decades ago when he was executive vice president at the University of Pennsylvania and was speaking with Lee Stetson, the former dean of undergraduate admissions there.
Now, Fry, who is likely to be hired as Temple University’s next president Wednesday morning, will face a similar challenge in its North Philadelphia neighborhood. Though Temple has launched efforts to improve safety around its campus in the last couple of years under Jennifer Griffin, a former Delaware State Police captain, Temple has lost 24% of its enrollment since 2017. And university officials have acknowledged that some of that has been due to perceptions about safety.
Fry said he has read the Temple safety audit report by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, whose company was hired by the university after the shooting death of, the company started by Ramsey.
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