Talk:University of Illinois Springfield/Archive 1

Campus diversity section
The whole campus diversity section is biased and inappropriate, if the section is to remain focus on the variety of groups available and not one incident.

The diversity section is irrelevant and needs to be deleted. I attempted to delete and was accused of vandalism. If this university is to be taken seriously, you should know what information is relevant and what is not.

- I edited the diversity section. The supposed "conservative" city or "liberal" campus are point of view. This is an online encyclopedia, not campus political forum.

Notable Faculty section
Christopher Jacob is a student, not faculty.

NO CATS
No cats are on campus! Get it?!?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.102.230.166 (talk) 07:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

--There is a feral cat population on campus. The cats are periodically trapped and tagged. Those who haven't been spayed/neutered have it done by the Animal Protective League. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.67.125.225 (talk) 20:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:UIS Logo.gif
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Notable faculty
This section is almost completely uncited. It needs verifiable data to back it and should be cited inline. It is likely that many in this list are not actually notable. Please see Notability_(people) and Source_list. "every entry in any such list requires a reliable source attesting to the fact that the named person is a member of the listed group." Unsourced entries will be removed if sources are not added. Jesse Crouch (talk) 05:00, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Edits by UIS itself
After examining the IP addresses of the edits I have found that many of them come straight from UIS itself. This means persons located at UIS (possibly staff, faculty, students) have contributed a significant portion of the information. Much of this is information is written like an advertisement is uncited by reliable sources and is not neutral point of view. If this is UIS staff and faculty, then it constitutes conflict of interest and should be avoided. Regardless of COI, this article regularly winds up with non-encyclopedic content. Please refrain from using non-encyclopedic style when making contributions. Jesse Crouch (talk) 05:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Rankings
I changed "fourth best public university in the Midwest" to read "fourth best public master's university, because that's what the referenced link is actually talking about. Now, I'm not exactly sure what a "master's university" is; I had never heard the term before today. But I can tell you that UIS is not the fourth best public university in the Midwest. Both the other two campuses of the University of Illinois -- Chicago and Urbana-Champaign -- as well as University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Indiana University, are ranked higher in US News as overall universities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.74.134.20 (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

--Master's universities offer a broad range of undergraduate and master's degrees, but few or no doctoral degrees. UIUC, UIC, Michigan, etc., are doctoral universities. Other public master's universities in Illinois include Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Chicago State, SIU-Edwardsville, and Northeastern Illinois. Incidentally, USN&WR now calls the category Regional Universities, and the doctoral-intensive schools are National Universities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.67.125.225 (talk) 20:07, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

University of Illinois Springfield or University of Illinois at Springfield ?
Recent edits have attempted to remove the "at" from the name of the university. This is a matter of some confusion, caused, as far as I can tell, by UIS itself.

The website of UIS's governing authority, the University of Illinois system, clearly calls UIS the "University of Illinois at Springfield", and lists the other two campuses with the preposition as well. However, recently UIS on its website pages, as seen here, has been removing the "at". Ironically, on its actual homepage (as of today, June 11, 2011), there is a photograph of an arch (which presumably is over a campus gateway) that has the name of the university engraved in stone and the "at" is included. (After reading my post, I expect the university staff--who have already been called out for editing this very Wikipedia article in the past--will probably remove that photo from their home webpage, but I would really love it if someone in the Springfield area could snap a photo of it and post it to Commons.) Also, on many of the website's pages, (at least as of today) at the bottom, can still be seen "Copyright, University of Illinois at Springfield., though several other pages have had this notice changed already.

Of course, universities can and do change their names sometimes. However, UIS is not at liberty to do this unilaterally, as it can only be done with the approval of the U of I system. It is possible that this has happened and I just didn't know it. If so, then this article's title must be moved. But most schools, at least in Illinois, that have changed their names over the years, have a history section somewhere on their websites that details such changes (e.g., NIU, UIC, ISU). UIS has, as far as I can see, no history section on its website anywhere, let alone an explanation for their attempt at a name change like these other schools have. No mention at all that they were once Governor's Sangamon State University, nothing. I don't know, maybe they have nothing in their history they want to talk about, but it'd be nice if they'd explain why they're on their third name in three decades. Anyway, until I see that the University of Illinois system has approved the change, I will monitor this page to see that the "at" remains included. HuskyHuskie (talk) 16:31, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Culprit
Well, I guess I should have checked out earlier who had removed the "at". While I suppose the account could have been created by anyone, the editor of the edits in question was User:Uiswebservices, which would appear to be the creation of UIS's Office of Web Services. They clearly don't know much about editing on Wikipedia, as indicated by their next edit, which inserted an "annotated Google map" invitation in the second sentence of the article.

If I were a student at UIS, and I knew that the article covering my university in most popular reference work in the world was being handled in such a clumsy manner, I'd be embarrassed. Maybe that's just me. Aren't there some Sangamon State alumni who can help bring this article into a more respectable state? HuskyHuskie (talk) 18:36, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

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