Wikipedia:WikiProject University of San Francisco

A WikiProject to improve articles about the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit University in San Francisco.

Project related articles

 * University of San Francisco
 * articles in Category:University of San Francisco

To do list

 * University of San Francisco
 * better references, in-text citations to printed references
 * "The third Saint Ignatius College was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906 and the campus moved further westward to the corner of Hayes and Shrader Streets, close to Golden Gate Park." -- expand this?
 * history in between 1969-2005
 * split out campus section into separate article: University of San Francisco campus
 * what sports are played? List them in the main article
 * split out three "people" sections: Notable people at the University of San Francisco
 * add campus organizations; for example, USFtv isn't mentioned at ALL
 * the site could use some copy editing.


 * Madcoverboy posted a to-do list, which has a lot of great suggestions: Talk:University_of_San_Francisco

athletics
I added the new USF mens basketball coach as a practice run, exciting!-Lorena Fernandez Our group in the afternoon class will be editing the athletics section on the main USF page. We plan on repairing the football section, creating an intro that includes all sports offered at USF/intermural and adding a segment on the "glory days" of USF mens basketball. Our group is: Lorena, Jelica, Matt and Nick.

Perhaps we should edit the USF Dons page instead of the athletic section?... there is already a lot of information and a link to go there- Jordan Remer

FYI The morning class is focusing on baseball

If anyone wants to join us from the afternoon class let us know.

study abroad
We would like to do study abroad programs. Locations, universities, offices, exchange students coming here to USF, stats/popularity. (Liz Lauer, Kylah Frazier, Kait Kenerly, Katie Olson)

ROTC
Our group is going to add information about the ROTC program because it is absent from the USF page. We will find as much information as possible regarding the history of ROTC at USF, the number of people in the program, how the program is run, etc. (Scarlett Spangler, Kamilla Nosovitskaya, Hugo Lopez)

Editing
Instead of focusing on adding new content to the site, we want to focus on editing the content that already exists. We want to rewrite and restructure some of the already existing topics in order to make the information more effective to the viewer. - Sam Hernandez and Katie Caughman

Comment:

Hi Team! We are the Rankings, Admissions and Demographics group and we wanna let you know that we'll be making extensive changes to the Rankings section as well as some changes on the demographic/admissions related statistics published in the History section. So you might wanna avoid that first.


 * Manual of style: Every publication follows a manual of style. Wikipedia's is quite extensive and somewhat idiosyncratic. The main page is at WP:MOS, and there are many subpages. Every editor should be familiar with the basics. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 17:54, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

International Students
We would like to talk about everything USF does to welcome international students to USF with the help of the GO Team and through the use of a special orientation. We would like to mention some statistics of the number of international students attending USF as well as mention the countries they are from and the languages they speak. Along with that we would like to write about International Education Week at USF and make a note of the numerous events and holiday celebrations USF hosts to promote global education. Finally we would like to compare how diverse we are because of our international students in comparison to other colleges in the Bay Area. (Fatima Duran, Vy Tran, Dhruvi Mehta, and Alex Morrison)

Gleeson Library and Thacher Gallery
My idea is to include information about the library and gallery on the page- Quincy Roth

Rankings and Demographics
We would like to add to the already existing rankings section and to add more information about the college standings and to make it more relevant. We would also like to add a section on the student demographics for example male to female ratio,gender, race and the freshman class profile, etc. We will not be covering the international student body statistic as the international student project group is doing that.

Our 4 main work-in-progress "sections/paragraphs" : 1) Rankings 2) Admissions 3) Demographics 4) "Funky Facts" related to the previous 3 as well as interesting historical statistics about the student population.

Sources: US News & World Report, 150 Years Anniversary Book, USF Magazine, Forbes/Yahoo, Admissions office publications

Hey Class! If you would like to collaborate, clarify or deconflict information with us, feel free to contact us or add your comment below this sentence. Contact Vincent: vin213@gmail.com

Your comment for our group:

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-Elle Lindsey Robinson, Teresa Garcia, Kaiwen Cheng, Vincent Ha.

Residence Life/Dorms
Our group is going to focus on student housing, both for under and upperclassmen. We will be talking about different aspects of dorm life such as the front desk, RA's, lounge spaces, taking pictures of individual dorms and dorm rooms, etc. As of right now, we have people covering Hayes, Gillson, Fromm, Pedro, and Loyola Village. Open for people to work on Phelan, Fulton house, and Lone Mountain. (Kate and Sophia. Epi, Reece Snyder, and Evan. Anne, Sara, Pete, Stephanie)

Greetings afternoon group: today we worked on getting specific information about our designated dorms and added it to the website. Check the email I (Sophia) sent you guys and it will give you more info.

Campus Dining
We would like to describe each dining option USF has to offer and go into depth of what each facility provides. The dining options we are covering include the cafeteria (Market), Outtakes, Crossroads & Jamba Juice, Cafe Ed, the old 'Fog and Grog' pub, and the Law Building Cafeteria.

-Milan Kim, Kurt Kirkman, Alex Burton, Marco Abellera, Maggie Gaster, Vida Fernandez, Kristina Ono

A few of us are also interested in researching the campus dining, however, we would like focus primarily on the healthy eating aspect of what our school has to offer for students and the rest of the USF community.

-Joe Zolnoski, Tara Wall, Sammi Sumampong, Mimi Honeycutt


 * Hey gang: Remember that all material in Wikipedia articles should be verifiable using reliable sources. Original research (meaning finding things out on your own) is not allowed. For the purposes of this article, the USF website is a reliable, self-published source. The college newspaper would qualify as well. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 17:51, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Smoking Ban
We are going to talk about the controversary that has surfaced around the campus smoking ban that has taken effect this year -Chad Heimann and Chris Crowley

Location
We propose to create a separate sub section regarding the surrounding locations around the USF campus. Such areas include: haight ashbury, the richmond, golden gate park, presidio, and the other surrounding points of interest. We will focus on USF's prime location which is not clearly stated on the wiki site. We will mention the muni lines that run through and close to campus as well as our muni passes, the local events, and all Golden Gate park events, etc. Basically, how awesome San Francisco's features are.


 * Natalie Cappetta, Chris Moore, Jessica Mason, Joel Weston

We, in the afternoon class, would like to do much the same thing. We intend to document both the areas around campus and popular areas which are frequently visited by USF students such as Haight Street, Golden Gate Park, and a few of the more student-friendly districts. Also, we would like to point out some of the specific places to visit when at these locations. As part of our project we intend to take pictures at each of these places that we visit, in order to add more of a visual aspect to the USF wikipedia page. In reference to the early morning class, which is doing much the same thing, we'll just do our own research, which will hopefully come together with theirs in a complimentary way.


 * Christie, Hayden, Kayla, Katrina, Morgan, Brooke

Hello afternoon class. We just want to let you know that we are planning to do Haight Ashbury, Golden Gate Park, the Panhandle, Richmond district, and the MUNI lines. Since we are all doing pretty much the same research, we should figure out a way to collaborate so it doesn't turn into a battle(haha). We're not sure how this will work so we should all meet asap to figure it out! Contact: Joel Weston: Cell: (650.269.7445),   Email: jaw42282@gmail.com


 * Attention: It's great that you folks are working on this, but remember that this is first and foremost an encyclopedia article about the University of San Francisco, not the surrounding area. Anything much more than a short paragraph about the location and perhaps a map would be off-topic. (Commuter info would probably be OK too). Wikipedia already has articles on the surrounding areas and landmarks, so any additional information you collect should go into those articles, not the USF article. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 17:28, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

USF Campus Going Green
Our goal is to inform the viewers of all the things that USF is trying to do in order to make our campus a more sustainable environment leaving less of a carbon footprint. In our topic, we will be exploring campus solar panels, the Garden Project, composting in the cafeteria, buying local, and the statistics accompanying USF's environmental efforts.

Our team consists of Sarah Hobin, Daniele Dominguez, Chet Bentley, Amanda Rivas, and Mallory Parks

Student Organizations/Clubs
We want to create a section that incorporates the student organizations on campus. We hope to organize these various clubs into categories such as cultural clubs, social justice clubs, various media organizations, etc. We invite the afternoon class to join us on this. Our group wants to mainly focus on media and social justice clubs/organizations, but there are many others that can be added.

-Ashley Thomas, Daniela Ricci-Tam, Grace Rahn, Jessie Hill, Rachel Whittemore

Hey afternoon class! We created a student clubs/organizations section on USF's Wikipedia page and wrote a short intro. for it. We are planning on listing all the clubs on campus on the page and then going in-depth on a couple. We just wanted to let you know so that you could add the Greek Life information under that section if you still wanted to do that!

Thanks Morning class, that's exactly what we had in mind. We have a very short introduction to Greek life on campus followed by a list of all the sororities/fraternities with a brief description, charter date, etc. of each. We were hoping to have a heading reading Greek Life as its own subsection under Student Organizations/Clubs.

Hey there, you now have a heading all your own. :) Haha. I don't know if that's what you wanted, but I set it up since I was adding my USFtv and other club info to the site. ~ DIR-T

Greek Life
Our goal is to bring awareness of Greek life at USF to the public including all official Fraternities and Sororities and their activities. This section is intended to be a sub-section of the clubs/organizations section.

- Alaina Mariano, Kelsey Burnett, Tiffany Gresham, Shoka Marefat

The Koret Center
We are highlighting the benefits of the beautiful Koret Center exercise facility that our campus has to offer, including fitness classes, swimming pool, basketball courts, cardio equipment and more. - Kelli McCloskey, Brian Burke

Resources

 * USF archives
 * subject headings to search in the Gleeson Library catalog

Fall 2008 Intro to media studies class
In Fall 2008, students from Dr. Silver's introduction to Media Studies class at USF will be working on the University of San Francisco article.

Students
Editors participating in this project. (add your user names!)
 * Elle Robinson
 * Tara Wall
 * Kai-Wen Cheng user: kevin115cheng
 * Samuel Hernandez
 * Amanda Rivas
 * Mallory Parks
 * Fatima Duran
 * Lorena Fernandez
 * Daniela Ricci-Tam user:imadaytripper
 * Jordan Remer user:JvRemer
 * David Silver user:Davidms
 * Kate Greenspan
 * Sophia Lorenzi
 * Liz Lauer
 * Kylah Frazier user:kyfrazier
 * Kait Kenerly
 * Katie Olson
 * Natalie Cappetta
 * Joel Weston
 * Jessica Mason
 * Christopher Moore
 * Ashley Thomas user:ashleythomas90
 * Alaina Mariano user:armariano
 * Tiffany Gresham
 * Kelsey Burnett
 * Shoka Marefat
 * Christie Hayden
 * Rachel Whittemore
 * Vy Tran
 * Vincent Ha user:Ayhth
 * Chris Crowley user: chcrowley
 * Chad Heiman
 * Sarah Hobin
 * Jessie Hill user:avantexgarde
 * Anne Sivley
 * Peter Thoene user:kittensabout
 * Dhruvi Mehta user:dpmehta

Progress
Progress reports here.

Help pages

 * Five Pillars
 * Tutorial
 * Help:Editing
 * About citing sources


 * Starting an article
 * What does the perfect article look like?


 * guideline for what university articles should look like: UNIGUIDE

Related projects

 * WikiProject_Universities
 * WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area