Talk:Roosevelt Academy

Woongoed Middelburg
should criticism of woongoed not be placed on the woongoed wikipedia article, linked to that of the Roosevelt Academy?

I think it is important to make direct reference on the Roosevelt Academy site of the situation of the housing, provided by Woongoed, since students are required to live in these houses by the Roosevelt Academy (RA). It is also of vital importance as part of the Roosevelt Academy, since housing makes up a very important of what distinguished the RA from other universities in the Netherlands, at least this is what it claims. It claims to be the second, UCU first, campus in the Netherlands. This is certainly not true since the huge spread between the houses can hardly be called a campus. Especially since it is nothing more than a few houses. The RA does not seem to be interested much in the living conditions of the students, since students experience many problems with Woongoed, which the RA acknowledged. The RA wants the students to solve these problems themselves since the RA is still to dependent on Woongoed for the future. (Also admitted by the RA) The students have to depend on a housing affairs committee which does not take any actions at all. Generally students seem to consider the Housing Affairs Committe as too incompetent to be able to solve issues.


 * I have deleted the paragraph for the moment: it consisted purely of (negative) opinions, without any objective source. I know student accomodations are sometimes poor, even new housing facilities, and I don't doubt that you're right, but Wikipedia is not a forum for activism. Sixtus 18:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Then you should also remove the incorrect information given about that it is a prestigious university. This is most certainly not true. It is even problematic to get into a master program after graduation. Negative remarks by themselves should not be a reason for removal. And objective information can be given, but those students risk getting lower grades, as has already been experienced. It is very important to give more balanced information here! I do not intend to publish images of private content on this website. Especially because of the consequences this will have!


 * You do not improve an article suffering from incorrect content by adding your own negative opinions! You have been doing exactly the same on nl.wiki and it does not help. You can balance the article by adding information about other rankings, for example, or remove vague POV qualifications like "prestigious" (which I have done now). A phrase like The Roosevelt Academy has always promoted itself as the best university in the Netherlands, which is clearly not the case. is inadmissable, since it contains 1) an attack on a statement for which no source is given (I don't believe RA has ever promoted itself as 'the best university' - of course, it promotes itself but so does any institution for higher eduction and 2) it contains your POV opinion. Sixtus 19:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Notable Faculty
which faculty members are most important and worth mentioning in the article under notable faculty? What are the requirments to be considered "notable" --> the ability to change the wiki page??

Elitism
What should be said in the article about Roosevelt Academy being elitist or not?

This has been mentioned by newspaper articles when the RA was founded. Although it seems to attract the more elite students in general, there seems to be little claim for stating that it is an elitist university. It seems to be important to mention this. As this was also pointed out by the RA on several occasions.

Courses
Why put economics at the Arts & Humanities department? it surely is a social science

It is in the Social Science department at the Roosevelt Academy and this seems to be the correct placing. The misplacing may have something to do with the Socio-economic courses taught at the RA, although these also currently fall under the social science department at RA.

Graduate School
Is anything known about the graduate school of music, should it be mentioned in the article?

Spelling and Grammar
PLEASE check your spelling and grammar before editing the wiki page. It is embarrassing to all students if you do not write well here! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.10.217 (talk) 00:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Name change
Roosevelt Academy changed its name to University College Roosevelt two months ago. Could someone change the official title of this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartzus (talk • contribs) 11:52, 24 June 2013 (UTC)