This is a timeline of the life of Peter Liacouras, president of Temple University in Philadelphia from 1982 to 2000. During his administration, the university’s budget had well more than tripled to $1.26 billion in June 1999. The university's endowment skyrocketed from $15 million in 1982 to $109 million in 1999. University scholarship funds blossomed from $6.7 million to $28 million, and $922 million in capital projects had been completed or were under way as he left office. Funded research had very nearly tripled to $73.8 million for the 1999-2000 school year. He had the largest development program in the university's history that birthed campuses or sites in London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Tel Aviv, Ghana, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. In 2000, Temple had more than 10,000 employees, 210,000...more >> alumni, and 29,000 students from 110 nations. It included 17 schools and colleges attended by the largest professional student body in a public university in the country.