Our Demands

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1. Abolish the Temple University Police Department.

   • Commit to decreasing the number of TUPD police officers immediately, with the goal of eliminating the department by 2021. Shift this money to: 

     • Tuttleman Counseling Services 

     • TITLE IX 

     • IDEAL

     • Tuition decrease for all online learning  

     • Student transit passes

     • The Cherry Pantry

     • Underfunded departments including Africology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

     • Increasing tenure-track professors

     • Disability Resources and Services
       
       

2. End policing in the neighborhoods surrounding Temple and eliminate the more than 15-block patrol perimeter that extends into the community. 
   
   

3. Commit to never building a stadium on or near campus.​
   
   

4. Terminate all funding to the Philadelphia Police Department and the Philadelphia Police Foundation from Temple and from any individual member of the Board of Trustees, including donations of any kind.
   
   

5. Make all budget information public and easily accessible on Temple’s website.
   
   

6. Increase funding for the number of tenured BIPOC and immediately onboard more BIPOC to the tenure track.