With Jason Wingard as president, Temple enrollment has fallen. But it’s a challenge most colleges nationwide are facing.

Temple University has faced a tumultuous few years, with enrollment falling and campus safety issues on the rise.

As recently as this month, the Temple Association of University Professionals, the faculty union, planned to hold a vote of no confidence in university leadership, including Jason Wingard, the university president who resigned on Tuesday.

Wingard, a former Columbia University dean who was Temple president for less than two years, said “that too much focus is on me rather than the challenges we seek to overcome.” He had said last week he planned to pause work on other initiatives to focus on campus safety and enrollment.

Both graduate and undergraduate enrollment has been falling at the school in recent years — down 14% since 2019.

But the school is not alone in its fight to stop the losses.

Overall college enrollment nationally and across Pennsylvania continued to decline this year. Locally, though, Temple’s drop in overall enrollment from last school year to this year was greater than some of its peers at 6.4%. Overall enrollment at Drexel University was down 1.6%. La Salle University was about the same, and it was up at St. Joe’s, but that was solely attributed to its merger with the University of the Sciences last summer.

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Inquirer reporter Susan Snyder contributed to this report.