Talk:University of Cincinnati/Archive 1

UC Engineering -- Herman Schneider and Co-op education
I was surprised to see no mention of one of the most important contributions of UC's College of Engineering. Dean Herman Schneider created the first cooperative education (co-op) program in the United States in 1906. This program has been the model for all co-op programs since then. See this page: http://www.eng.uc.edu/welcome/history/ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.118.14.218 (talk) 04:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

The biography of Charles William Dabney is available in the Archives and Rare Books library. It is apparently unpubished and what is there is a xeroxed copy. THis gives the story of Schneider who came to Dabney shortly after he was appointed President of the University. Schneider wanted to earn an advanced degree so that he could speak with more authority. Dabney listened to what he wanted to do, decided that he didn't need an advanced degree, but needed to be Dean. He encouraged Schneider to continue to plan, but to wait and when there was opportunity, he would simply advance this assistant professor to Dean and this is what happened. Schneider later became a reluctant university president after Frederick Hicks retired, and served until the apppointment of the next president.

Faculty Layoffs?
This article claims that UC was forced to fire faculty members ("Recently, to cut costs in an attempt to relieve the debt, the University has laid off many faculty members and professors"), but provides no source for this claim, and no specifics as to numbers (were 2 faculty fired, or 1000?). I'm not sure why such a vague and unscourced claim should remain in the article.

Tpetross (talk) 09:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * While it is known that UC has a substantial amount of debt, this section does not site any sources and certain doesn't meet objectively standards. I'm removing the entire Debt section.

Logo vs. Seal
I added the UC logo the page, because that is how the university identifies itself in all promotional material. The seal is used only in very limited applications, people are more likely to recognize the logo than the seal, and the reasoning the other editor had for changing the logo to the seal ("like every other university on Wikipedia") isn't even true. The Ohio State University (one of the largest universities in the US, and therefore probably one of the most-edited on Wikipedia) has their logo showing, not the seal. noktulo 18:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: Why is this page still using the seal instead of the logo? It doesn't make much sense considering the seal is used only in limited contexts. According to the university's own branding standards (pdf), the seal legal only for use on official university documents "restricted to scholarly, presidential, or board-related purposes," and it does not represent the university as a whole. It is even prohibited to use the seal on the university's own licensed goods, and a substitute seal is used instead. noktulo (talk) 07:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Huggins NPOV?
The paragraph on Huggins feels a little like it was written by someone bitter about him getting fired. It could probably use a rewrite.

No rewrite needed. It just states facts. I detect no point of view coming through to an alarming enough extent.
 * I agree the information seems very accurate and does not seems biased. -- Wikitravel Sapphire 23:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

This paragraph appears neutral to me, also. I don't sense any bitterness in the paragraph.

As a student at the University of Cincinnati, I assure you this is the message sent to students (from the faculty) as to why Huggins was asked to leave. Of course, many students accuse the current president, Nancy Zimpher, of not looking out for the best interest of the UC basketball team.

Hang on a minute, folks! As a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, I can assure you that we, the faculty, sent no message whatsoever to students regarding Coach Huggins' departure. UC's President or her office may have offered an official statement to students and to the general public, but the UC faculty certainly would not and did not do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.137.203.95 (talk) 16:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Untitled
I'm curious about the transition from municipal university to state-affiliated university. Does anyone have any supporting info or references?

of Louisville?

The College of Charleston claims to be the oldest municipal college in the U.S. (est 1770, chart. 1785). The medical school which became U of L has operated continously since 1837, but I'm not sure when we became officially municipally funded. A google search usually brings up the "Louisville Municipal College for Negros", which was purchased by U of L; so I may have email someone to find out Brando03 16:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)Brando03

1 question and 1 comment:

1. Does anyone know when and why the colors red & black were chosen? I have long suspected that it was due to the large German population and the colors of the German Empire were Red, Black & White.

2. The history section needs additional rewrites. The verbiage that was there was verbose and one continuous run-on sentence. Further, there were no references cited. Finally, it introduced several individuals without providing context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.142.95.133 (talk) 02:48, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

infobox logo removal/inclusion
A discussion regarding logo removal/inclusion that occurred during a recent edit to this article is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities. CrazyPaco (talk) 20:39, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Pages for remote campuses, similar to pages for individual schools within UC?
Just curious, why do colleges within UC on the main campus have their own wikipedia pages, yet other pages for regional campuses, which offer different programs, and 2-year programs, have had their pages removed or redirects sent to the main page. This does nothing to provide information that would inform prospective students, and neglects the history of those formerly independent schools, which need their own history sections. rhyre (talk) 11:48, 24 December 2009 (UTC)