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Temple spent $301,395 million on research and development in 2022
This figure is off by a factor of 1,000. NSF reports Temple’s FY 2022 R&D spending as $301,395 thousand, i.e. $301.395 million, not $301,395 million.
Full reasoning
The National Science Foundation's Higher Education Research and Development: Fiscal Year 2022 table lists Temple University with 301,395 in total R&D expenditures and explicitly labels the table “Dollars in thousands.” That means Temple spent $301,395,000 (about $301.4 million), not $301,395 million (which would mean about $301.4 billion).
So the article appears to have copied the NSF number correctly but attached the wrong unit.
2 sources
- Higher Education Research and Development: Fiscal Year 2022 (NSF 24-308)
TABLE 23 ... Temple U. ... Rank 98 ... All R&D expenditures 301,395 ... (Dollars in thousands).
- NSF Table 23: Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by all R&D expenditures, by R&D field: FY 2022
Temple U. is listed at rank 98 with 301,395 in total R&D expenditures; the table is reported in thousands of dollars.
The Temple University Police department is the largest university police force in the United States, with 130 campus police officers, including supervisors and detectives.
Later official Temple sources contradict both parts of this claim: Temple’s own 2023 audit called TUPD the second-largest university police force, and Temple said in December 2025 that the department had 77 sworn officers, not 130.
Full reasoning
This sentence appears to rely on outdated figures.
A Temple-commissioned public safety audit published in March 2023 says the Temple University Police Department (TUPD) is "the second-largest university police force in the country", not the largest. The same report says TUPD had a budget allocation for 108 officers as of early 2022 and was operating with an estimated 72 officers on active duty as of early 2023.
Temple's own later update, "Staffing study completed for Department of Public Safety" (posted December 18, 2025), says: "Currently, the department has 77 sworn officers, including 50 patrol officers."
Because the article states this as a current fact, both the "largest" description and the "130 campus police officers" figure are contradicted by more recent official Temple sources.
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- Recommendations for Community Safety at Temple University & the Temple University Police Department (21CP Solutions, March 2023)
TUPD is the second-largest university police force in the country ... with a reported budget allocation for 108 officers as of early 2022 ... as of early 2023, the Department was operating with an estimated 72 officers on active duty.
- Staffing study completed for Department of Public Safety | Temple Now
Currently, the department has 77 sworn officers, including 50 patrol officers.