Jason Wingard steps down as Temple University President
Jason Wingard resigned as Temple University president after serving two years of a planned five-year term.
Wingard, a former Goldman Sachs official, faced public backlash for handing over the recently concluded workers’ strike, which lasted nearly a month and a half.
Wingard submitted his resignation on March 23 and his resignation was accepted. Mitchell Morgan, the board of trustee, said the Philadelphia-based university would designate a small group of senior Temple to guide the school while looking for a replacement.
Since being hired in July 2021, Wingard has faced growing scrutiny for his leadership.
Those concerns include a 42-day strike of graduate student works, the first in the union’s history, and the shooting death of Temple Police Sgt. Christopher Fitzgerald and Wingard’s stalled plan to move from leafy Chestnut Hill to live on campus in North Philadelphia.
In June 2021, Wingard was named the school’s first Black president.