Temple’s Board of Trustees approved the university’s latest strategic plan, Forward with Purpose: Temple Strategic Plan, in its Jan. 28 meeting. The project intends to elevate the university’s national standing as an urban public research university by Temple’s 150th anniversary in 2034. “The introduction of the strategic plan is really a watershed moment for us as an institution,” said President John Fry during the Board of Trustees meeting. Plans for a quad at the site were first introduced in the university’s 2014 Visualize Temple plan. Temple will develop more specific metrics and timelines for the Strategic Plan now that it has been approved by the BOT.