Temple University President to Step Down

Ann Weaver Hart, president of Temple University in Philadelphia, has announced that she will step down as leader of the university at the end of the academic year. She has served a Temple’s first woman president for the past six years. Dr. Hart stated that she needs to return home to Utah to help care for her mother, who is ill.

Dr. Hart holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Utah. She previously served as president of the University of New Hampshire.