Talk:American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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I think we should be switching to "infobox institute", as this institute is not a university and does not offer a degree program. It primarily does research. Its educational offerings are focused on that research. One of the things wrong with this article is the attempt to sell it as school any American in Athens might attend. Not so. Only students already enrolled in classics or the equivalent elsewhere can attend, and only with the recommendation of faculty elsewhere. If you are interested in archaeology and you are a successful student elsewhere at an institution that has connections to the American School, and you can get someone known at the school to recommend you, then you might apply for a year or two there to study specialized topics in archaeology and participate in their excavations. Otherwise, forget it. Their primary emphasis is research. The library and courses are aimed at research. For example, the library features all the excavation reports. One of their main projects is the Athenian Agora, for which they get special permission from the Ministry of Culture, in addition to the three annual they are allowed by law. The American School publishes Hesperia, which mainly now has open access (thank you). There is a long popular series of the Agora, etc. Just because they publish the popular series does not make them a popular school. If you are a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati and are aiming at archaeology, the summum bonum is a year at the American School, which you have to prove yourself to get. Blegen, a quasi-legendary archaeologist, was at Cincinnati. They run Kea also. So, let's drop the university mask and place it in its proper role as research institute. See the latest revisions to List of Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece. Right now I'm involved in updating some articles on efforts of the British School. At some point I will be taking this article on, if necessary. If you have any opinions on this, I'd like to hear them. Otherwise at the first opportunity I will make the switch and start rewriting the article. Ciao.Botteville (talk) 15:02, 11 February 2019 (UTC)