Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada/Higher education task force/Archive1

This is the higher education task force, part of the Education in Canada WikiProject. Its primary goal is to manage articles related to tertiary education in Canada.

Scope
This task force maintains articles under these criteria:


 * general higher education articles for each province and territory, and a national article
 * universities, colleges, and other tertiary educational institutions
 * organisations related to higher education, including journals, independent agencies, and government agencies
 * funding institutions
 * higher education finance, scholarships, and organisations that disburse such funds
 * research organisations associated with higher education

It also maintains lists, templates and categories related to these articles.

Participants
You may also wish to add yourself to the broader project Education in Canada WikiProject.



Achievements

 * A fact from the following appeared on Wikipedia's Main page in the Did you know? column:
 * July 9, 2008, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
 * Article improvement:
 * July 29, 2008, Stub-Class articles with error tags cleaned up
 * October 8, 2008, twenty articles added to Start-Class (without error tags) in the task force's first three months

Tasks

 * Update current articles with more current information, where applicable.
 * Improve style and formatting of articles per Manual of Style
 * Categorise and tag all articles as appropriate.
 * Improve articles to C-class or higher.
 * Upload new media (photographs, illustrations, video, etc.) and link them to articles.
 * Start new articles; see suggestions below.

Suggested new articles

 * For the category: Higher education in Canada
 * Canadian Council on Learning, CCL
 * Canadian Policy Research Networks, CPRN
 * Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, CSSHE
 * Canadian Society for the Study of Education CSSE
 * Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, STLHE
 * Canadian Education Statistics Council, CESC
 * Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, CHET


 * For the category: Higher education in Ontario
 * Confederation of Ontario University Staff Associations and Unions, (COUSA)
 * Colleges Ontario, Colleges Ontario
 * Ontario College Quality Assurance Service, (OCQAS)
 * Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario) to replace redirect to Ministry of Education (Ontario)


 * For the category: Education finance in Canada
 * Canada Indirect Costs Program, Indirect Costs Program website
 * Canada Networks of Centres of Excellence, Networks of Centres of Excellence
 * Canada Lifelong Learning Plan, Lifelong Learning Plan
 * Jean Murray-Moray Sinclair & Naomi Levin Scholarship to replace redirects to Manitoba Theatre Centre
 * Canada Student Loans Program to replace redirect to Student loans in Canada


 * For the category: Scholarships in Canada
 * None at the moment


 * For the category: Universities and colleges in Canada
 * None at the moment


 * For the category: Higher education in Saskatchewan
 * Ministry of Education (Saskatchewan) Ministry of Education Template:SaskMinistries

Decisions

 * Do we merge the current list within Higher education associations and organizations in Canada into the Higher education in Canada article OR keep the article and expand it into a full article (or convert to a list)? (If possible, please add comments on the Discussion page of Higher education associations and organizations in Canada)
 * The discussion and subsequent expansion of the article resulted in a keep decision and editing direction as an article instead of a list.

Featured articles

 * None at the moment

Featured lists

 * List of Athabasca University people

A-Class

 * None at the moment

Good articles

 * Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
 * McGill University
 * University of Saskatchewan

B-Class

 * None at the moment

C-Class

 * Higher education in British Columbia
 * Higher education in Ontario
 * Higher education in Saskatchewan
 * Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Start-Class

 * Akitsiraq Law School
 * Association of Universities of the Canadian Francophonie
 * Canada Learning Bond
 * Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
 * Canadian Association of University Teachers
 * Dominion-Provincial Student Loan Program
 * Higher education associations and organizations in Canada
 * Higher education in Alberta
 * Higher education in Canada
 * Higher education in Manitoba
 * Higher education in New Brunswick
 * Higher education in Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Higher education in Northwest Territories
 * Higher education in Nova Scotia
 * Higher education in Nunavut
 * Higher education in Prince Edward Island
 * Higher education in Quebec
 * Higher education in Yukon
 * Ministry of Education (Ontario)
 * Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
 * Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
 * Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
 * Registered Education Savings Plan
 * Student loans in Canada
 * The Killam Trusts

Start-Class with error tags

 * Jer's Vision: Neutrality flag
 * Millennium Research Program: wikify & cleanup flags
 * Rae Report: citation flag
 * Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: cleanup flag

Stub-Class

 * Academic Matters
 * Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer
 * Association of Canadian Community Colleges
 * Blake-Kirkpatrick Scholarship
 * Canada Education Savings Grant
 * Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation
 * Christian Higher Education Canada
 * Council of Ontario Universities
 * Donaldson Scholarship
 * Frank McKinnon Scholarship
 * Graduate studies scholarships in Ontario
 * Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario)
 * Ontario College Application Service
 * Ontario Student Assistance Program
 * Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
 * TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Community Leadership
 * Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
 * University Health Network

Stub-Class with error tags

 * None at the moment

List-Class

 * None at the moment

Unrated

 * None at the moment

Redirects, duplicates, and deletions

 * Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities: redirect to Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario)
 * Higher Education in Nova Scotia: redirect to Higher education in Nova Scotia
 * Higher education in the Yukon: redirect to Higher education in Yukon
 * Higher Education and Related Associations and Organizations: redirect to Higher education associations and organizations in Canada
 * Federal presence in higher education in Canada: redirect to Higher education in Canada
 * Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada duplicate of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
 * Higher Education and Related Journals and Publications: deleted
 * Post-secondary education for Aboriginal Canadians: deleted as original research
 * Image:Feb 2007 cover Page.jpg: deleted unused non-free image
 * Image:Academic Matters Feb 2008.jpg: deleted unused non-free image

Templates and infoboxes
For stub articles about a university, college or other tertiary education institution, use Canada-university-stub. For articles related to government institutions and agencies, use Canada-gov-stub.

There is no specific infobox for use by this task force. Please use the most appropriate one for the subject of the article in question. For example, a university article would use Infobox University.

Apply WikiProject Canada to the talk page of each article. Ensure that education=yes is included, so that it will be placed in the correct categories under management by the Education in Canada WikiProject.

Apply EducationalAssignment to the talk pages of articles created as part of a class project. See the template for additional information on its use.

Categories

 * Category:Higher education in Canada
 * Category:Higher education in Ontario
 * Category:Education finance in Canada
 * Category:Scholarships in Canada
 * Category:Universities and colleges in Canada