Talk:University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Edit request - UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
I'm requesting edits because this page is out-of-date and incomplete. I work for this college, and am aware of the COI guidelines. I'm hoping the page can be moved to change the name to College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois, as the university no longer uses the acronym "UIUC," and the ampersand is an official part of the college's name.

I'm also requesting that the copy of the page be updated. Many more programs than listed are ranked, and information about its general education requirements are no longer relevant. My proposed copy, below, includes statistics and other facts about the college, including the dean who was appointed in January 2017. It replaces outdated statistical information currently included.

I've also linked to the college list of academic units, and request that you remove the units currently listed in this article. The mix of units is constantly changing, so linking to the college's website is a better way to make sure users find accurate information.

I've included citations for all of my requested edits, and worked hard to use neutral, factual information.

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is the largest and most diverse college on campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It's home to about a third of students and faculty members at Illinois. The college is home to 37 academic departments, five schools, and nine centers and institutes. It offers more than 70 majors. More than 99 percent of all Illinois students take a class in the college, and it offers about 1,500 unique classes each semester.

Feng Sheng Hu, the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of LAS and Ralph E. Grim Professor in Geology, began serving in that position in January 2017. Upon being appointed, he described the college as "a leader in interdisciplinary scholarship, innovative teaching, and diversity and inclusivity."

Students The college is home to 14,500 students and teaches them critical thinking skills, good communication, and creativity. The college prides itself in allowing students to double-major, add minors and certificates, study abroad, and earn experience beyond the classroom.

LAS' Life + Career Design Initiative uses design thinking strategies to help students harness their areas of study to prepare them for rewarding personal and professional lives. In 2018, the college announced that 86 percent of bachelor's degree recipients in the class of 2016-17 secured a first destination-employment, continuing education, or volunteer/service positions-within six months of graduation.

Faculty The College of LAS is home to nearly 650 tenure-track faculty members who are experts in their fields. Those faculty members are consistently honored for their accomplishments, with recognitions like the National Medal of Science, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and memberships to the National Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The college also has more than 250 non-tenure track faculty members who make important contributions to teaching and advising students, and contribute to research.

Alumni The College of LAS has 168,000 alumni. Its alumni body includes eight Nobel Laureates and six Pulitzer Prize winners.

They include:
 * Susan Avery
 * David Harold Blackwell
 * Nancy Brinker
 * Lin Chuan
 * Rafael Correa
 * David Donald
 * Jean Driscoll
 * Robert Dudley
 * Larry Ellison
 * Yi Gang
 * Red Grange
 * Erika Harold
 * Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
 * Sri Mulyani Indrawati
 * Robert Johnson
 * Lynn Morley Martin
 * Molly Melching
 * Robert Novak
 * Suze Orman
 * Richard Powers
 * Bob Richards
 * Phillip A. Sharp
 * Thomas Siebel
 * Jack Welch

Mkdickinson (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Reply quote box with inserted reviewer decisions and feedback 02-JUNE-2018
Below you will see where text from your request has been quoted with individual advisory messages placed underneath, either accepting, declining or otherwise commenting upon your proposal(s). Please see the enclosed notes for additional information about each request. Also note areas where additional clarification was requested. When this is ready to be provided to the reviewer, please open a new edit request under a level 2 heading using a new template. Thank you!  .  spinten do    17:13, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Edit request - UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thanks for your careful review of my proposed edits. I've cut down my requested edit to factual claims that can be verified. One thing I'm not clear on is references for our list of alumni. I did go back and verify our Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winners, and realized we'd been sharing the wrong number. I've shared the lists of those names below, in the section on alumni. What other references should be included for each of those alumni?
 * Please note: the answer to this alumni question is given in Note #10 of my edit request review shown below. 07:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)  spintendo  
 * Please note: the answer to this alumni question is given in Note #10 of my edit request review shown below. 07:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)  spintendo  

Also, I wanted to ask again - would you please consider changing/moving the name of this page to College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois? Thank you again for all of your help!

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is a part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It's home to about a third of students and faculty members on the University of Illinois campus, with nearly 650 tenured faculty members and 14,490 students. The college is home to 37 academic departments, five schools, and nine centers and institutes. More than 99 percent of all students at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus take at least one class in the college. The college offers about 1,500 different classes each semester.

Feng Sheng Hu, the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of LAS and Ralph E. Grim Professor in Geology, began serving in that position in January 2017. Upon being appointed, he remarked that he was honored to serve a college with such interdisciplinary leadership, innovative teaching, and diversity and inclusivity.

Students The college is home to 14,500 students who are pursuing more than 70 majors. Students are encouraged to double-major, add minors and certificates, study abroad, and earn experience beyond the classroom.

LAS' Life + Career Design Initiative teaches students to use design thinking strategies with a goal of preparing them for rewarding personal and professional lives. In 2018, the college announced that 86 percent of bachelor's degree recipients in the class of 2016-17 had, within six months of graduation, secured employment, continuing education, or volunteer/service positions.

Faculty The College of LAS is home to nearly 650 tenure-track faculty members. Those faculty members have been honored for their accomplishments, with recognitions like the National Medal of Science, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and memberships to the National Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The college also has more than 250 non-tenure track faculty members who teach and advise students and contribute to research.

Alumni The College of LAS has 168,000 alumni. Its alumni body includes seven Nobel Laureates :
 * Edward Doisy
 * Edwin Krebs
 * Hamilton Smith, who attended from 1948 to 1950
 * Robert Holley
 * Vincent Du Vigneaud
 * Phillip A. Sharp
 * Wendell Stanley

LAS' alumni also include eight Pulitzer Prize winners:


 * David Donald
 * Roy J. Harris
 * Glenn Howatt
 * (Joseph) Allan Nevins
 * Arthur M. Petacque, who attended in the 1940s
 * James B. Reston
 * Carl Van Doren
 * Mark Van Doren

Other notable alumni include:
 * Susan Avery
 * David Harold Blackwell
 * Nancy Brinker
 * Lin Chuan
 * Rafael Correa
 * Jean Driscoll
 * Robert Dudley
 * Larry Ellison
 * Yi Gang
 * Red Grange
 * Erika Harold
 * Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
 * Sri Mulyani Indrawati
 * Robert Johnson
 * Lynn Morley Martin
 * Molly Melching
 * Robert Novak
 * Suze Orman
 * Richard Powers
 * Bob Richards
 * Thomas Siebel
 * Jack Welch

Mkdickinson (talk) 21:52, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Reply to edit request 11-JUL-2018
Below you will see where proposals from your request have been quoted with reviewer decisions and feedback inserted underneath, either accepting, declining or otherwise commenting upon your proposal(s). Please read the enclosed notes for information on each request.  spintendo   07:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Edit request - UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Below is the alphabetized list of alumni you requested. And certainly, renaming to "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" would be acceptable. Would it be possible to use an ampersand in "Liberal Arts & Sciences," as that's included in our college's brand guidelines? And, would you please make sure Roger Ebert and Hugh Hefner are not included as alumni on our page? They both graduated from the College of Media at the University of Illinois.

The College of LAS has 168,000 alumni. Its alumni body includes seven Nobel Laureates and eight Pulitzer Prize winners, along with many other notable alumni. : They include:


 * Susan Avery, who received her doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences in 1978
 * David Harold Blackwell, who studied mathematics and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1938, a master of science degree in 1939, and a doctoral degree in 1941 in the subject
 * Nancy Brinker, who studied sociology and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1968
 * Lin Chuan, who studied economics and received a master of science degree in 1982 and a doctoral degree in 1984
 * Rafael Correa, who studied economics and received a master of science degree in 1999 and a doctoral degree in 2001
 * Edward Doisy, who studied chemistry and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1914 and a master of science degree in 1916
 * David Donald, who received his doctoral degree in history in 1946
 * Jean Driscoll, who studied speech communication and received a bachelor of arts in 1991
 * Robert Dudley, who studied chemical engineering and earned a bachelor of science in 1978
 * Larry Ellison, who attended from 1962-1964
 * Yi Gang, who studied economics and earned a doctoral degree in 1986
 * Red Grange, who attended from 1923 to 1925
 * Erika Harold, who studied political science and received a bachelor of arts in 2001
 * Roy J. Harris, who received a bachelor of arts in general curriculum studies in 1925. He shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Public Service with fellow University of Illinois alumnus George Thiem
 * Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, who studied Spanish and earned a doctoral degree in 1969
 * Robert Holley, who studied chemistry and received a bachelor of arts in 1942
 * Glenn Howatt, who received a master of science degree in geography in 1982 and a master of science degree in journalism in 1986. Howatt shared the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for a series of reports on a spike in infant deaths in Minneapolis daycares that led to legislative action strengthening regulations.
 * Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who studied economics and earned a master of science degree in 1990 and a doctoral degree in 1992
 * Robert Johnson, who studied teaching of social studies and earned a bachelor of arts in the subject in 1968
 * Edwin Krebs, who studied chemistry and earned a bachelor of arts in 1940
 * Lynn Morley Martin, who studied teaching of English and earned a bachelor of arts in 1960
 * Molly Melching, who studied a general curriculum and received a bachelor of arts in 1979
 * (Joseph) Allan Nevins, who studied English and earned a bachelor of arts in 1912 and master of arts degree in 1913.
 * Robert Novak, who studied English and received a bachelor of arts in the subject in 1952
 * Suze Orman, who studied social welfare and earned a bachelor of arts in the subject in 1977
 * Arthur M. Petacque, who attended in the 1940s
 * Richard Powers, who studied English and received a bachelor of arts in 1978 and a master of arts degree in 1980
 * James B. Reston, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in general curriculum studies in 1932
 * Bob Richards, who studied a general curriculum and received a bachelor of arts in 1947
 * Phillip A. Sharp, who received a doctoral degree in chemistry in 1969
 * Thomas Siebel, who studied history and received a bachelor of arts in the subject in 1975
 * Hamilton Smith, who attended from 1948 to 1950
 * Wendell Stanley, who received a master of science degree in 1927 and a doctoral degree in chemistry in 1929
 * Carl Van Doren, who studied English and received a bachelor of arts in 1907
 * Mark Van Doren, who studied English and received a bachelor of arts in 1914
 * Vincent Du Vigneaud, who studied chemistry and earned a bachelor of science in 1923 and a master of science degree in chemistry in 1924
 * Jack Welch, who studied chemical engineering and received a master of science degree, 1959, and a doctoral degree, 1961, in the subject

Mkdickinson (talk) 20:15, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

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