The COVID19TU.com Reporting Collaborative launched at the beginning of the pandemic when student media leaders came together to develop a reporting collaborative among Temple news outlets. The outlet provides daily and weekly coverage available online for the Temple and Philadelphia community. Breaking news updates are produced with the assets of The Temple News, Temple Update, WHIP Radio, TUTV and Philadelphia Neighborhoods.

The Diamond Edge Communication Advertising Student Agency is a student-run agency that provides a range of marketing communication services to clients. The focus is on serving North Philadelphia-based businesses, community groups, nonprofits and important social causes. This client profile pairs students with clients that truly need marketing communications help and ones that are willing to give the students freedom and responsibility needed to maximize their experiential learning potential. 

The PRowl Public Relations Student Agency is a student-led PR agency that provides services for local organizations and businesses. This agency provides services in business and strategy development, content creation, and media relations.

The TUTV (Temple University Television) examines and seeks solutions to the major issues facing the North Philadelphia community. Students produce Philadelphia Television’s only “wall-to-wall” political coverage on election nights and cover stories on Temple Update. TUTV produces daily news capsules in Spanish and Mandarin. Many programs examine the impact of the racial reckoning while evaluating issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in our community. This includes A Broader View, Temple People, The Vibe and University Lectures.

The LatinX Initiative aims to build community around the Latinx student population at Klein College, as well as further connect with Philadelphia’s Latinx communities through speakers and relationships with local institutions such as Esperanza College.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech Reading & Volunteer Event is a live reading of the MLK “I Have A Dream” speech open to the Temple and Philadelphia community. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event included volunteer work at local North Philadelphia churches and area facilities. 

Rocking the World: Disrupting Stereotypical Notions of Race, Class and Religion is a course where students are required to read the book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and gain an in-depth understanding of three caste systems: the history of slavery and racism in the United States, the history of the caste system in India, and the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany during World War II. Students traveled to Washington, D.C., to visit The National Museum of African American History and Culture and also The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The goal is to develop ways to address racism and prejudice in their own areas of interest.