Temple Professors End Strike

PHILADELPHIA —  Temple University professors ended a three-week strike over wages today and returned to work, ensuring that classes for 33,000 students would not be canceled.

The university, which endured the first teachers’ strike in its 102-year history, had said it would have to cancel the semester if the faculty did not return today because there would not be enough time to complete class work before the start of the second semester. A tentative agreement called for a 9% across-the-board pay hike over two years, a 2.4% increase in merit pay and increases in other areas that bring the total package to a 13% pay hike.