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--64.25.240.222 (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC) --64.25.240.222 (talk) 21:58, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Through my research I have come to the conclusion on certain things that should be added, taken away, and allowed in the Info box. First off, the content that should stay is, honestly, all of what we have so far. The other schools that I studied including, Dartmouth University, Michigan State, Simmons College, and Roger Williams University, had either matched the amount of topics we had or exceeded them. Therefore, in my opinion, the items already in the info box are all legitimate pieces of information and should not be removed. However, Endicott’s info box is missing a few important aspects in comparison to the other college. We should add the schools motto: “It’s a great day to be a Gull”, Sports: (x amount of varsity teams), the schools mascot: The Seagulls, colors: Blue & Green, academic staff: (x number of staff), and campus: (schools dimensions). --64.25.240.222 (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

--JLC151 (talk) 03:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC) After reviewing different colleges and what is provided in their information box I have come to the conclusion that Endicott's information box has limited information in caparison to other colleges. The basic information is provided in Endicott's information box but other interesting knowledgeable things that could be put in the box could potentially make Endicott's wikipedia page stronger. Other colleges have things like provost, motto's that are in English or another language, affiliations and nicknames. Reading through these information boxes that supply the viewer with more information gives the viewer a broader perspective of the college. --JLC151 (talk) 03:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

After reading other colleges and Universities pages it's clear that there are basic categories that are put into the information box. These categories include, motto, establishment, type, endowment, president, undergraduate and postgraduates, location, campus, colors, athletics, nickname, and website url. Some universities include other categories like "motto in english" and administrative staff. This could be included in our information box, but isn't as necessary as the categories above. Sources can be found in some of the categories. These sources usually link to the college's website, a book or article. Wikipedia links are also included in the information box defining words and places. When we write the information box it is important that it is consistent with information in the other sections on the page. For one college the number undergraduates in the information box didn't match the number stated in the Academics section. This can be avoided by reviewing other sections of the Endicott page and checking if it matches the information box. It is also important to make sure we are back up our information with sources. Courtneyypollard (talk) 18:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Courtney

The listed information in the information box appears to always come from either statistics produced by the college or from some type of college fact book, in cases such as the motto. When the information in other sections might be inaccurate, it seems that the information box should be the place assumed to have the correct statistics. Every information box also posts its information in the same order: motto, motto in English, establishment, type, endowment, president, students, undergraduate, postgraduate, location, campus, colors, athletics, and website. Some colleges had other information peppered in different locations, but that is the rough order that is usually used. Looking at Endicott's information box, the only reference in it is for a Facts and Figures PDF, more sources on things such as campus size and number of students should be found to provide more accurate information. Daneon2 (talk) 16:59, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

After reading all of the information boxes for the specified colleges and universities I had, it is apparent on what should be included in Endicott's information box. The categories that should definitely be included are as follow: Motto, Established, Type, Endowment, President, Undergraduates, Postgraduates, Location, Campus, Colors, Athletics, Mascot, and Website URL. None of the remanding miscellaneous categories should be included in Endicott's page. Statistics in the information boxes are backed up by reliable sources and references. We need to make sure that when any of us finds a certain statistic, that we verify it with a reputable source. For the purpose of Endicott's page, we must back up all of the information with credible sources so that any reader can feel that they are reading accurate information. It will allow Endicott College to come across as a put together school with real facts. JPuch19 (talk) 03:17, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

I researched Connecticut College, Boston University and Bentley University, all of which had great Wikipedia articles. All of the articles History pages went into depth about the history of the school, and how they progressed and grown over the years, without sounding like they were promoting the school. Instead, they focused on facts of the school, and how the school was founded and by whom. I think in our Wikipedia article, we should keep what we have so far, but also add in subsections to the history section, because that is a significant topic that people would want to know when looking at Endicott’s article. The other colleges and universities that I looked at provided some subsections in their history section, mainly because they are larger schools, yet I think we could benefit by adding in an Early Years sub section to our article, just to add a sense of depth to our article, like Boston University did on their Wikipedia page. Under an Early Years sub section, we could keep some of the same information we already have on the page, and also add in some more research that we find and make it look presentable by having the header of “Early Years.” We should keep information that we have about the founders in our section, and also keep what we have so far on President, Doc. Wiley. 64.25.240.222 (talk) 13:30, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

--Simonev1233 (talk) 18:04, 6 October 2014 (UTC)==Info Box== Dartmouth: 1.) Motto (latin)      8.) Students             15.) Sports 2.) Motto (english)   9.) Undergraduates  16.) Nickname 3.) Establishment   10.) Post Graduates  17.) Mascot 4.) Type                  11.) Locations           18.) Affiliations 5.) Endownment    12.) Campus             19.) Website 6.) President           13.) Colors 7.) Academic staff   14.) Athletics

Michigan State: 1.) Motto              8.) Students            15.) Sports 2.) Establishment  9.) Undergraduates  16.) Nicknames 3.) Type               10.) Post graduates  17.) Mascot 4.) Endownment   11.) Locations           18.) Affliliations 5.) Presidents       12.) Campus            19.) Website 6.) Academic Staff 13.) Colors 7.)Admin. Staff     14.) athletics

Simmons College: 1.) Establishment    8.) campus 2.) Type                  9.) Nicknames 3.) President           10.) Afflilations 4.) Academic Staff   11.) Website 5.) Undergraduates 6.) Post Graduates 7.) Location

Ithaca College: 1.) Motto             8.) Students               15.) Nicknames 2.) Establishment 9.) Undergraduates    16.) Affliliations 3.) Type               10.) Post Gradduates 17.) Website 4.) Endownment   11.) Location             5.) Presidents        12.) Campus 6.) Academic Staff 13.) Colors 7.) Admin. Staff    14.) Athletics

Roger Williams University: 1.) Motto                     8.) Students 2.) Established            9.) Locations 3.) Type                      10.) Campus 4.) Religious Affliation 11.) Colors 5.) Endownment          12.) Nicknames 6.) President               13.) Website 7.) Academic Staff

While recording this information I have found that Endicotts Information Box is missing a lot of information compared to other schools including Simmons College, Roger Williams University, Ithaca College, Dartmouth College, and Michigan University. Endicott College has a total of 12 informational facts while the other recorded schools averaged to have around 17 informational facts. Endicott College's informational box could be greatly improved by adding missed information including, Schools Motto, Academic Staff, Students, Sports, Mascot, Affliliation, Type, Religious Afflilation.

Infobox Sources
http://www.endicott.edu/~/media/Endicott/home/About/Admin/IT/Info-Tech-Policies/PDFs/EndicottFacultyStaffWebContentPolicies8-15Final.pdf This is a website that appears as a document or pamphlet for all staff and faculty of Endicott. It’s a good source to consider because it elaborates on policies and morals that all faculty follows. It also shares the basic morals of Endicott College. http://map.endicott.edu/ This is a website that gives readers a basic outline as to how the college is set up. It can be found also through the Endicott College website. This is a good source to consider for the Information Box because it gives readers a basic idea as to where everything is on campus as well as locations of future dorming, classes, etc… --Simonev1233 (talk) 19:27, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.endicott.edu/~/media/Endicott/shared/pdf-documents/EndicottFactsFigures2013.pdf -The original Facts and Figures link on Wikipedia still links to Endicott's old website, giving an error message when clicked. While the brochure is from last fall, several of its figures are still accurate. The figures that are not accurate are covered on Endicott's fact page at: http://www.endicott.edu/About/Institutional-Research/Institutional-Facts.aspx Daneon2 (talk) 18:37, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.endicott.edu/Admission/Undergrad-Admission/Endicott-Facts.aspx This URL is from the Endicott College website. The fact page under the Undergraduate tab provides clear statistics and numbers to include in the info box regarding admission facts and numbers. On this next URL, one can find the general facts about Endicott's sports on the upper lefthand corner of the page. There is a sectioned off info box displaying our school's mascot, colors, affiliations, etc... http://www.endicott.edu/Athletics.aspx Both of these sources are reliable for information to include in the info box because they are from the actual Endicott College home page. JPuch19 (talk) 14:54, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.endicott.edu/Undergrad/Communication.aspx This URL is from the Endicott College website. I chose communications because it is just an example of a major that a student could take here at Endicott. If you display the majors in the information box I think that will draw more viewers in because it is an easy way to access each major. People can just simple press the link and then learn more about the major it what it offers here at Endicott College. http://www.endicott.edu/Athletics.aspx This URL is from the Endicott College website. Athletics are very popular among colleges. When someone wants to see Endicott's athletics they can easily access this link through the information box. --JLC151 (talk) 00:13, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

About Dr. Wylie

This link accesses the Endicott Administration page with the biography of Dr. Wylie. This could be a useful source to link to Dr. Wylie's name in the info box. Another source to consider for Dr. Wylie would be Another biography on Dr. Wylie

Endicott's Endowment

This last link provides information on Endicott's Endowment and serves as another source for the information of undergraduate and graduate student numbers. This also could serve as a source for other categories in the information box like, type, location, faculty-student ratio and application deadline. All thing I think would be important for prospective students. Courtneyypollard (talk) 20:18, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Infobox Content
In the Infobox, Established, Type, President, Undergraduates, Postgraduates, Location, Athletics, and Website should stay. Endicott College's Motto should be added. Finally, by looking at various schools, Endowment, Campus, Colors, and Nickname should be taken out. Colors and Nickname can be included when discussing Athletics. Endowment does not seem necessary to show to a viewer and the Campus saying: Suburban does not seem to enhance any meaning on behalf of the school. JPuch19 (talk) 03:57, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

After reviewing and analyzing my research on the information box for Endicott College through other colleges, I have come to the conclusion of what should stay, what should go and what we can add to make our Endicott wikipedia page stronger, informative and helpful for users. In terms of things that should stay in the information box would be the location and the undergraduate. The location is important because when a viewer is researching Endicott it would be helpful for them to know where Endicott’s location is. Undergraduates are another vital source of information because when researching a school generally you have in mind if you want a big or small school. Having the undergraduates on the right side is an easy way for viewers to access how many students attend Endicott. When looking at the Endicott information box there is not a lot of information provided. But some things that could leave would be the endowment and campus. Both of these things are not something you look up and would change your decision on attending Endicott. Knowing where the location is already viewers would know what type of campus this is. Since the information box is so limited it was easy to decide what to add. Things that would be interesting to put in the information box would be a motto and a mascot. These both add more character and interest into the information box. The things that I mentioned are the most important in my perspective of what should stay, what should go and what should be added. The things are there right now can still stay and are also important. I think there is a lot of room for improvement. --JLC151 (talk) 05:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I think that after looking at other colleges info box the Endowment category should stay. I agree with the fact that it's not something many student's look at when researching a college, but at the same time our audience is everyone, not just prospective students. I agree with the idea of taking out the campus category because we already have the location category. Overall, I think we should keep the info box brief yet interesting for the readers that like to skim it rather than reading the articles. With this in mind I think including the motto and mascot should be included. Other than that I would just add sources to the material already in the info box making it seem more professional. Courtneyypollard (talk) 18:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Good points, although some of the removals I feel we should keep. Most colleges do list their colors and nickname. Also I feel that Campus should stay but get some changes. All the colleges that I looked into had campus as one of them but it also had the size of the campus in acres or square miles, which is a good bit of trivia for people looking at just the infobox. Also while it would be good to add, my brief searches on Google and Endicott's site seem to point to Endicott not having a motto in Latin or English, so it might not be possible. Daneon2 (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

History
Mainly, the information found in the beginning of the history sections are about the first buildings and founders of the schools. It is important to include the date it was founded, as well as information on the first class. Most schools then discuss which buildings are historical landmarks, if anything of great historical significance occurred on site, and the dates of when they became co-educational or universities. Some schools also offer information on when the schools received awards or were voted top in the country. Paragraphs, here, are simply arranged by the context. Each paragraph focuses on the beginning of the college, historical landmarks on the campus, changes in the universities, etc. The main kinds of sources I discovered on these Wikipedia accounts lead to Act’s created that benefit the school, news articles that show the school in high rankings, biographies of influential people, or to further information about a cited time in history. Some schools, such as the University of South Carolina, have had issues with simply copying the school’s main website’s history and pasting it into the Wikipedia section. In order to have someone not delete our posts, we’ll have to make sure we don’t do that. Aallenson (talk) 18:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

I researched two small schools and one large school. The large school has a very long History page. The most prominent differences were that this school included extensive background information about how and why they chose the location for the school. This also explain all of their first donations and the first graduating class. This history page also explained how the school drastically grew and a long section on their current president. The two smaller schools had very short history sections. They both included their year of opening, their first graduating class, and their presidents. Roger Williams combined their history, academics and campus life section which I did not find as beneficial to their page as a plain history section would be better. Jcart287 (talk) 19:36, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

The 3 schools I looked up were University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Texas Tech University, and Florida Atlantic University. In two of the history sections on TTU and FAU, sub sections of history can be found on the contents box, UNC doesn't have subsections. Both TTU and FAU have three sub sections that have establishment, expansion and growth, and recent history as the sub sections. The beginning of all three sections start off with when the university was first discovered, and it talks about the way life was during that time, all three schools mention some sort of war going on during the discovery. All schools mention who the current president or chancellor is at the end of the history section, and each section holds information about important contributions made to the universities that allow them to strive and continue to be a prestigious university. Paragraph breaks come periodically with paragraphs lasting on average around 5 lines. Each history section also had a minimum of 2 pictures for that section. Lastly, at the end of the history section, each school gives different information, some provide information about the new buildings being put on campus while others talk about the government and current top tier professionals at the school. 64.25.240.28 (talk) 20:53, 5 October 2014 (UTC) Nick Gendreau 64.25.240.28 (talk) 20:53, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

I researched Connecticut College, Boston University and Bentley University, all of which had great Wikipedia articles. All of the articles History pages went into depth about the history of the school, and how they progressed and grown over the years, without sounding like they were promoting the school. Instead, they focused on facts of the school, and how the school was founded and by whom. I think in our Wikipedia article, we should keep what we have so far, but also add in subsections to the history section, because that is a significant topic that people would want to know when looking at Endicott’s article. The other colleges and universities that I looked at provided some subsections in their history section, mainly because they are larger schools, yet I think we could benefit by adding in an Early Years sub section to our article, just to add a sense of depth to our article, like Boston University did on their Wikipedia page. Under an Early Years sub section, we could keep some of the same information we already have on the page, and also add in some more research that we find and make it look presentable by having the header of “Early Years.” We should keep information that we have about the founders in our section, and also keep what we have so far on President, Doc. Wiley. Kpinch24 (talk) 13:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

In addition to the Dartmouth College and University of Michigan articles on Wikipedia, I viewed the articles of George Mason University, James Madison University, and Susquehanna University. One common theme that appears in this section can usually be found within the first paragraph. Almost every school immediately mentions where the school is located, who founded it, and what year it was founded. The expansion of each school is revealed in chronological order by stating facts such as presidents that have served, information on new and renovated buildings, and the number of increasing staff and students over a period of time. Pictures are featured in the history section in the articles of the University of George Mason and University of Susquehanna. A picture of George Mason appears on the George Mason page, and pictures of various buildings of importance are located on the University of Susquehanna page. Among the five articles, the average number of paragraphs is nine. Both the University of James Madison and University of Susquehanna display subheadings within their history sections. The subheadings are used to differentiate among time periods. The history section is mainly comprised of sources from articles and documents found on the College or University’s website. The articles sourced in this section come from news sources as well such as local newspapers or large publications like the New York Times. The University of Michigan and Dartmouth College are two examples of articles that use a large variety of sources throughout the history section. In four out of the five articles, the history section was mentioned in Talk page threads. The main reason for this is because users are often unsure about where to place information. As a result, it is frequently placed in the history section if a date is attached to it. However, the information may not always belong in that particular section. One point that was brought up in the talk thread of the George Mason article was information regarding the number of students enrolled. One user was unsure if the information provided on the article was accurate. Therefore, all facts need to be properly sourced in this section in order to avoid any confusion. CLS0825 (talk) 04:06, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Two of the colleges I researched have relatively short history pages. Saint Anselms had a longer history but it also seems to add unnecessary facts about the school. The history section of the page does not need to include current facts of the school, it is supposed to talk about how the school was founded. Most first paragraphs talked about dates and how much land the school took up when it was founded. They then go into details about how long and how far the school has expanded since its first establishment. Saint Anselms talks about goals the school had when it was starting up and adds goals that have become apparent throughout the years. It has a problem with just using the schools main website and adding it to the wikipedia page, making it bias for the viewer. Merrimack and Stonehill seem to be less favorable towards the school, and more non-bias. All schools talk about the current president and the founder of the school. Both the history of Dartmouth and University of Michigan have much longer sections, although both schools were founded earlier than my choices. Most pages end in naming he buildings and when they were built on campus.--Katiraver (talk) 17:31, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Along with Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan, the three schools I researched were UMass Amherst, Harvard University, and Framingham State University. UMass and Harvard both have relatively large history sections, like Dartmouth and Michigan, while Framingham has a slightly smaller history section. UMass’ history section is broken down into three different parts- foundation and early years, modern era, and 21st century. Each section talks about information regarding the topic they are about. Harvard’s history section is broken down into four parts- colonial, 19th century, 20th century, and 21st century. Lastly, Framingham State’s small history section only has one part to it- the timeline of name changes. All three of the schools I have researched have good history sections, talking about who founded the schools and how further expansion was started. --Elisecamuso (talk) 20:05, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

History Sources
This is a credible source because the college keeps up to date on the history. It dates back to 1939 when the college was established and includes all of the presidents. This is a credible source because it is an up-to-date news website that reports about educational rankings and information about schools. Jcart287 (talk) 17:25, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Endicott College's History Page
 * US News College Rankings- Endicott College

http://www.thefire.org/pdfs/879d38fd620af4cccf230653ac3598c0.pdf

This credible source is a pdf file containing a large background of history and information referring to the school.

http://www.collegeconfidential.com/vibe/endicott-college/

This is also credible and has quick facts easily found, photos, and videos of the college that could be helpful.

--Katiraver (talk) 18:13, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.wyliecenter.com/our-history.shtml

This is a credible source describing the history of the Wylie Inn and conference center, as well as bits on Endicott as a whole. It is directly from the up-to-date Wylie Inn website.

http://primaryresearch.org/endicott-college/

This is another credible site that searches local history by historians and also gives information on Beverly throughout the years, including pictures, exhibits, documents and more. Aallenson (talk) 15:44, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.endicott.edu/Admission/Undergrad-Admission/Admission-History.aspx This source found on the Endicott website provides information on who founded Endicott, (Dr. Eleanor Tupper)and the general history of the school, including how many students originally attended EC and how it grew into a 4 year school. NGendreau (talk) 17:06, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

https://www.cappex.com/colleges/Endicott-College/tuition-and-costs Here is where people can find information on the history of tuition costs at Endicott College. This site presents the current tuition price and the average amount of financial aid given to each student. It also provides a chart on how much tuition has gone up over the years. NGendreau (talk) 17:06, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

I went to the Endicott history exhibit in the Library which had a bountiful amount of history on Endicott College from numerous credible sources. As long as information taken out of there is rewritten in a nuetral tone, I think the history exhibit will be a great source for the school page.

Another source on the History of Endicott that I found was a PDF that was mostly on the history of the nursing program at Endicott, but also contains information on the school itself. http://www.nursingsociety.org/Chapters/Documents/Endicott%20College%20EHOD%20History.pdf I believe this is a very credible source because it is coming from the nursing society and its a non profit site dedicated to nursing programs. Nguil934 (talk) 18:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/ascend/ascend-8-Wylie-Keys-Degrees-Educating-Two-Generations-Together.pdf This is a credible source because the site talks about the history of the college and the colleges "Goals For Participants In The Keys To Degrees Program" and how it started. Kpinch24 (talk) 22:03, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/endicott-college Another credible source that I found referred to facts and certain programs that Endicott has. History was relevant on this website and how the school has changed and grown over the years. Kpinch24 (talk) 22:02, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.ecgulls.com/information/visitors/visitors_guide/index On the Endicott website, there is a Visitor's Guide which not only talks about the formation of the school, but Beverly as well. This is a credible source because it comes straight from the official website of Endicott College.

http://www.ties-edu.org/mil/mil_about.html The second website I found was from TIES, otherwise known as The Institute for Educational Studies. This website not only talks about TIES and it's relationship to to Endicott, but it also gives information about the school such as when it was formed and how much it has expanded and still continues to expand. --Elisecamuso (talk) 02:11, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Endicott College's Presidents This credible source is featured on Endicott College’s website and has pictures as well as descriptions of each President that has served at Endicott College.

Historical Buildings at Endicott College This source also appears on Endicott College’s website. The website features a brochure about historical buildings in Beverly, MA that have become a part of Endicott College’s campus.

Photographs of Endicott College Another source found on Endicott College’s website displays photographs of the college throughout its existence. CLS0825 (talk) 16:06, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

History Content
The Endicott history section of the current wiki page is sort of what you would expect to see for such a small school. When I looked up my three schools, Florida Atlantic, Texas Tech, and UNC-Chapel Hill, I found that their history sections were much lengthier than ours, most likely due to the size and history of these schools. Endicott is currently on it's 75th year while other schools are entering their 100th birthdays. What is already in the history section is fine, because it gives an overview on how the school got its name, who founded it, etc. However, I believe there could be more added such as why they chose this land as oppose to more flatter ground. Also, many of the other schools wiki pages have subsections to their history that include establishment, expansion and growth, and recent history. Perhaps we can find enough information through our sources to make these subheadings and make the page look even better. NGendreau (talk) 17:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Compared to the three schools I researched, UMass Amherst, Harvard, and Framingham State, Endicott has a very short history section. Although Harvard and UMass Amherst are very large schools compared to Endicott, Framingham is a just a little bit bigger but has more content in it's history section, including a timeline of name changes. The Endicott history section talks about how it was founded, how it was named, how it grew into a larger college, and lastly Doc Wylie and his presidency. Personally, I think there is too much information John Endicott, who the school was named after. It is not really that important to know a lot about him, just a basic overview on who he was and why the school was named after him. Other than that, I think the rest of the content should stay. Since there is basically 2 paragraphs for the entire history section, all the other information is important and needed in order to have this page look decent. If it was any shorter, people might think the school is not as nice as it really is. Lastly, I think more information about the process of how Endicott became a 4 year co-educational school should be added, as well as recent history about expansion, classes, and future plans such as the hockey rink. Although all of the other schools I researched have different subheadings under the history section, I don't think that it is necessary for Endicott. With all of these suggestions I have proposed, I feel like the Endicott page will look better and have more in-depth information about our school. --Elisecamuso (talk) 18:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Not to repeat what other students have already stated, but Endicott's history section is definitely noticeably short. It is more like a list than a paragraph, with basically each sentence stating a new fact, with little elaboration. A lot of the information on there isn't actually terrible, but it lacks any additional detail which leads to the short and informal history section that the page currently has. The page does have a good amount of information on President Wylie, but we should add more accomplishments that President Wylie did at the school instead of focusing his history on his personal past. My other schools had sections in their history tab, and split up important events into these sections. Even if there isn't as much information as these bigger schools with a longer existence, we should still focus on getting our history sections in order. I would be interested in finding out more information on the history of Endicott as a women's college, and the transition to the an all gender school it is now. The history section is the first real section that readers see, so we should make sure it does not look "weak". Nguil934 (talk) 18:55, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Endicott's History page, like the other students have stated, is short and lacking content. While it is good that the current wikipedia site has a few facts about John Endicott and Dr. Wylie, I think the history section should focus more on the actual history of the school. What I find interesting about Endicott is that it is in constant transition. I think it is notable to include how and why the school became a four year college and the acceptance of men. From the three schools I researched, I found that their history sections were much longer. Although the school's were far older, it shows that we can find more interesting facts about the last 75 years on campus and it's possible relations to Salem and Boston to include. I also think that we should discuss the newer changes happening on campus, such as the new buildings, notable art exhibits or achievements from student clubs or honor societies. Aallenson (talk) 23:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

After viewing the history section on the Wikipedia pages of George Mason University, James Madison University, and Susquehanna University it can be determined that the article for Endicott College can be improved upon. As of right now, the Endicott College Wikipedia article covers basic information regarding the history of the college such as when the school became co-educational, who founded the school, the current president, and when the first class graduated. These facts provide readers with an understanding of how the school came about, but additional information can be added to this section to further educate people about the existence of Endicott College. Some information that can be added is information regarding each President that has served at Endicott and what contributions they have made while serving (e.g. acquiring land, buildings, renovations, academics, etc.). Information about logo changes, and pictures of the campus and presidents could also be added. Although several things can be added to the Wikipedia article, there are also a few things that can be removed from it. Two things that can be removed from the page is Doc Wylie’s extensive background and information about John Endicott. Information about both of these people should be reconsidered when editing Endicott’s Wikipedia article because it does not have anything to do with the school’s history. CLS0825 (talk) 02:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I definitely agree with all the other students about how the Endicott College history section is very short compared to other bigger schools. Some other small schools I liked at like Univeristy of Southern Maine had very small history sections as well, however overall those schools did not have very good wiki pages in general. I definitely think there could be a lot more included. So far, I think what is written is worth being on the page. However, it would be a good idea to expand on some of the things written. I think it would definitely be better to include more about Endicott’s transition from an all girl’s college to a co-educational college. And if possible, I think it would be cool to get some direct insight right from Doc Wylie about the subject as well as research it online. Another thing I noticed about other schools history sections was that basically all of them had subsections for different parts of the schools history. I think a good one to extend into its own subsection would be the actual presidents of the school. Right now, we only talk about a couple out of the five total. --64.25.240.222 (talk) 02:44, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Academics
The Academics sections of my chosen schools, (Bryant University, Babson College, and Providence College) as well as Dartmouth College and University of Michigan, all begin with stating the programs, degrees, requirements, and schools within the university (if any). Some Wikipedia pages focus on different aspects of Academics, like Babson. A majority of the section is focused on the several school rankings they have achieved over time. The University of Michigan breaks off into sub headings including student body and research. The student body sub section discusses the demographics, while the research discusses the layout of the campus and the buildings. Personally, I think the best Academics section belongs to Providence College which consists of an overview, academic divisions, and programs. This makes it much easier to navigate. Providence and the University of Michigan are the only Wikis that have sub headings. On the Babson and Michigan talk page, there is a discussion about how they must avoid academic “boosterism” because of its promotional tone. The most commonly types of sources throughout the Academic sections of these articles are from the official college website, Businessweek and U.S News & World Report. Bambr947 (talk) 00:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Academics

After researching five different universities' academic sections, it is clear that universities use this section as a form of advertisement. First, all of the schools explained what kind of institution they were and proceeded to throw out some numbers referring to the number of programs, majors, and degrees offered at the school. Running off of the information, they list the highly acclaimed majors in the school. One school, Dartmouth College, listed some of their teachers who worked in the bigger major departments. Every school also made sure to mention something about acceptance rates and financial aid. These highly acclaimed universities want to show off their elite status and make it seem like its not impossible to afford such schools. As i mentioned before, each school seemed to enjoy including every ranking of academic success from every single newspaper, or committee. Its a successful way to promote the school. Accomplishments by faculty members were also included as it gave the employees a more elite feeling. Finally, each school wrote about a little history, or unique aspect to their academic program. For example, University of Michigan awards academic success with great detail. You can receive with honors, highest honors, or even get invited to a ceremony for the students with the highest academic performances. Ndelo527 (talk) 19:11, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

After looking closely at the academic pages of the three universities I chose (Pepperdine University, Sacred Heart University and UCLA) along with Dartmouth University and University of Michigan, I found that all the Wikipedia pages of these schools have an academic section with the exception of Sacred Heart University. These Academics sections are all comprised of majors and the schools affiliated with those majors with the exception of the University of Michigan, which is very general. All schools have subheadings on national and global rankings, but UCLA is very specific with degree and departmental rankings. The University of Michigan is the only school that mentions a student body and a large subsection on the school’s research efforts. The sources that are common among all these schools is U.S. News and World Report, 2014. Some individual sources linked directly to the universities’ official websites. Personally I think that Pepperdine University has the best Wikipedia page because it is very detailed and factual regarding each major offered. Also, it is very organized and broken down into different sub headings making it very easy to follow and find information. Kabbo025 (talk) 00:48, 6 October 2014 (UTC)kabbo025

Other Colleges and Universities that I have researched, including Harvard University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have started with both enrollment and Admissions. On both of these school’s websites, they start off by listing statistics on their enrollment and information on their admissions. Putting particular focus on the admission, I have noticed that percentages, total numbers, applicants and the amount of students accepted. Some schools mention that their acceptance is at record low or high. Along with the academics, financial aid is mentioned and is linked to the number of those accepted. Right away the information is listed and is easy to find, and is mentioned first off the academics session. 64.25.240.222 (talk) 03:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)Pcaridi

Academics Sources
Endicott Academics

This is a credible source because it is on the official Endicott website, and features all of the academic schools offered.

U.S. News Endicott Academic

This is a credible source because it comes from the U.S. and World Report News under "Education Rankings and Advice". It includes programs, rankings, and statistics related to academics.

Bambr947 (talk) 16:28, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

College Board

This is a credible source because it is a college search website associated with college board that provides a clear list of all academic majors, percentages of popular majors, and different study options offered at Endicott College.

Campus Explorer

This website is a credible source because it offers academic rankings for Endicott College in comparison with other schools which will be very useful information when writing the Academic section of our Wiki.

Kabbo025 (talk) 16:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

--Endi-Cleveland (talk) 19:42, 16 October 2014 (UTC)https://colleges.niche.com/endicott-college/academics/ This website is a credible source because it offers a voice from the student's point of view. They speak based off of their own experiences at Endicott College. http://collegeapps.about.com/od/collegeprofiles/p/endicott-college.htm This website is a credible source because it speaks of the criteria that needs to be met in order to be able to be accepted to Endicott. It also speaks of the most popular majors and so it provides a lot of insight.

http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/endicott-college/academic-life/academic-majors/# This website broke down the popular degrees and fields of study most prominent at Endicott College. It also gave the percentage of full time teachers at Endicott. http://www.free-4u.com/colleges/Endicott-College.html This website gave important information on tuition rates at Endicott and financial aid which was mentioned in almost every wikipedia page for the five different colleges. Ndelo527 (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

https://www.facebook.com/EndicottCTL This is a liable source because it is run by the school and it gives good information on the academical sector of the school.

http://www.princetonreview.com/EndicottCollege.aspx This is a credible source Because the Princeton review has been around for a while. a lot of schools use the website and have been used to evaluate and compare different schools.

Academics Content
Everything listed in the academic section should be not only be included, but explained in greater detail. It lists the numbers of Bachelor programs, concentrations and minors offered at the school. This is solid info that must be included so people can get a sense of what the school is like. It then list the masters programs which is also a must have. Finally, this section goes into the internship programs, which is the staple of this college. There needs to be a lot more info regarding the internships. They should name some of the big time internships students have gotten which led to them getting a real job. Describe in more detail the internships and how long they will take. There is much that should be added. I would include tuition rates and the different financial aid packages the school offers. The acceptance rates and stats should be added as well. The amount of credits needed to graduate was also included. Every school researched included this information. I think adding something about the international students and our study abroad program should be added to show how Endicott is something much bigger than a small private college. Some schools listed some of the well acclaimed teachers in the school and what subject they taught. Their accomplishments were included which brings me to the final add needed. Every single and small award Endicott has won needs to be included. Every school show off their accolades and it seems only right to do so. As I said before, none of the info on the pages should be taken off. It all seems credible and the info is necessary. We will add to what has ben said and add a lot more detail. Ndelo527 (talk) 04:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

--Endi-Cleveland (talk) 03:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC) All the information mentioned here so far should be okay to stay. Adding a lot to it should do wonders and is exactly what we need. Adding information about the study abroad program will also be a necessity.

I would add a list of names and titles specifying all the individual bachelor programs, concentrations, and minors offered at Endicott College. Also, I would eliminate the sentence speaking about the different masters programs offered and move that to a whole new paragraph talking more in-depth about the Master degrees and programs at Endicott and the Van Loan School. I would also add information about the national and average class rankings. Lastly, would add to the internship section speaking about the great internship opportunity Endicott offers and list names of reputable places where Endicott students have interned. Kabbo025 (talk) 17:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I think we should re-word what is already there. it seems a bit random and poorly written. i also think we should a whole sub category regarding the internship piece of it. we could talk about the different schools such as the van loan and also talk about the hotel and how that is also used for classes. i think we should talk about the study abroad program as well [User:Kiddair10]

The Academic section of the Endicott College Wikipedia page is much to short, 4 sentences to be exact. In this little content it covers what Endicott has to offer. For example, things such as bachelor programs, concentrations and minors. Then it goes slightly in depth into what master programs the college has to offer as well as the big internship program. I believe all this should stay. There shouldn’t be anything information wise taken out. You want to know why…because there is barely any information here in the first place! There could be so much more information here. Lets go even more in depth in what these programs have to offer, especially the internship program, I mean that’s a huge deal here at the college. Its one of the biggest reasons were respected academically because of all the opportunities. Lets even talk about some of the academic awards that have been won over the years here, as well as some of the students and teachers who have been recognized on a collegiate level. I’m talking valedictorians, highly respected scholars, everything! Now I don’t want this to turn into a representation of the official Endicott College website, but there absolutely is going to be some major positive changes after were done with this section. Grantthompson333 (talk) 01:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)Grantthompson333

--Pcaridi (talk) 03:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC)Everuthing in Academics is correct however needs to be in greater detail. The information, i feel especially internships, should be expressed and explained in a deeper manner.

All the information currently under academics should remain there, but elaborated on. The material is relevant, but fairly vague. To fill these gaps, topics including rankings, academic offerings and requirements, and financial aid should be added. It should be separated into subheadings, one including rankings, acceptance rates, and statistics, the second including academic requirements, offerings and internship, and the last one including administration and financial aid. Bambr947 (talk) 01:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Campus
From further reviewing university Wikipedia pages, I noticed there was a lot of focus on residence halls and the history of them. Also, proximities to other buildings and “landmarks” are mentioned to clarify locations on campus. The articles speak extensively about their library, student center and athletic buildings as well as campuses abroad. The concept of sustainability was mentioned and how it benefits the campus and world. Sources frequently came from college council-created articles and external website sections and seemed reliable. Talk pages primarily included discussions requesting more information about public transit to and from places, complaints about biased sections, and the separation of the Campus section from the Campus Life section (residence life vs. clubs/events/etc.) --Kcari187 (talk) 03:06, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

After looking at the 5 college pages' campus sections, I saw that this section contained mostly information about the setting of the campus, as well as it's buildings. However, there was a difference in the pages, as Dartmouth and Michigan gave a lot of detailed and historical information about it's campus structure and the different parts of it. The other pages I looked at, Suffolk, Salem State and Nichols, all had much less information to them. Nichols offered the least information about it's campus, but unlike Salem State and Suffolk had many images to show the different buildings. Each page however, did give some sort of history on when the buildings were built, as well as gives insight as to how the campus is set up. My 3 college pages I chose did not include any, or very minimal, external links in this section, but Dartmouth and Michigan were very proficient in this area. When I begin to work on this part of the wiki page for Endicott, I hope to help make it look more proficient and professional, as Dartmouth and Michigan does, and include all these important aspects. This will help give insight to others of just what the campus here is like. Savannahsylva (talk) 19:39, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Furman University, University of Tampa, and Wellesley College all explained the area the campus is on/around. The location of the campus was a big topic for the three schools’ pages. The pages also talked a little about the dorms on campus, but that wasn't a huge topic. The history behind the campus was also written about for each college. Significant places and monuments on the campus were talked about. As well as significant events that happened on or near the campus/town/city. All three pages use paragraph breaks which clearly divide the different topics spoken about. Sometimes there were multiple topics talked about in the same paragraph, but for the most part the paragraph breaks were place correctly. There were a few external links for each college’s page, which you could click on and it would take you to another wikipedia page describing the word in more detail. There are very minimal “notes” for references to the facts. Wellesley College had the most. There were no direct talk pages about the Campus section, but some talk pages about history and location. Amandavisvis (talk) 00:55, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

After researching the campus section of my three schools as well as Dartmouth and Michigan I noticed that each were mostly based around the history and foundation of the campus itself. Although all three were similar in this aspect they all differed in other ways. For example, St. Michael's College gave a brief history of the campus then focused on what the buildings were named and what students were allowed to live there. Two other things that they mentioned that I found to be unique were demographics of the students who attended the college and also sustainability for what they have done to improve the campus. Union's campus section was based on short descriptions of the buildings including the information of who they were founded by, when they were founded, and finally how many acres of land they consist of. WPI differs in the fact that it has no descriptions of specific buildings. It focuses on where it's located in relations to big cities such as Boston and Worcester. Compared to Michigan and Dartmouth my schools had few external links in this section. The links that they did include would carry you on to another Wikipedia page. None of my colleges had a specific talk page for the campus section! --Quinnyoc (talk) 03:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

The three schools I chose along with Dartmouth and Michigan differed in how their page organized their campus section. One thing that each had in common was the page's mentioning of the major locations on campus, mostly academic, athletic, food, and residence buildings. Dartmouth was very standard in this respect. It basically stated the important buildings on campus and explained how long they've existed, their location, and what the buildings offer (how the facilities are inside/their purpose). The rest of the schools were similar in having this type of organization, but had different ways of organizing their sub sections. For instance, Columbia College did not have a "Campus" section, but rather a "Location" section where the buildings on campus were discussed. Another example of this was Northeastern's page. It had topics under their campus section like "Campus Developmental Background" and "Sustainability" that gave more of an elaboration on how the campus was on a perspective rather than informative standpoint. In particular, the page mentioned how the campus was awarded "most beautiful new or renovated exterior space" by the American Institute of Architects. It is also important to note that this mentioning in the article did not have a proper citation. While on the topic of external links, I found a few faults within the schools' articles. For instance, in Dartmouth's page, there was one link that led to a page that couldn't be found. For the most part, however, the links were credible considering the majority of them were directed to the schools' main websites. Hawaii Pacific University, however, didn't have many external links on their page. In general, the page did not have much information at all. The campus section was divided into 4 sub sections that were each about a few sentences long discussing very minimal information about their campus locations and programs. The school's talk page didn't even have any entries, which says a lot about how much work is needed on this article. The other schools had lengthy talk pages divided into sections with input from various users. The talk pages were quite helpful in learning about the schools and their campuses because it was input from readers themselves. For instance, it was interesting to see the discussions of adding more buildings to Northeastern's "Campus" section. Despite being divided by 12 different subsections of various buildings on campus, there were lengthy discussions about important buildings that people feel need to be mentioned. Another notable thing I read in the talk section was from Dartmouth college. Although hardly mentioned in the article, the talk section elaborates largely on the school's accusation of having hazing occur within their campus. With such a controversial topic, it was intriguing to see what readers had to say about it and discuss what information should be put in the article without revealing the school as having a bad reputation. Overall, it was interesting to not only read about the different school's campuses but see how their pages differed in conveying its information. Kploo397 (talk) 03:50, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

The three additional schools that i researched were Emmanuel College, Boston College, and Fairfield University, along with Dartmouth and University of Michigan. What i noticed, was that the information of any section correlates to the size, reputation of the school. For example, the more impressive of the schools like Dartmouth and U Michigan have larger sections that are more impressive. However, there are many similarities within the schools campus boxes. For instance, all the schools state how, when, the campus originated and what the original campus looked like. All the schools also had a list of all the different buildings on the campus and their purposes. One difference came along when it came to the size of the school. For instance, the bigger schools like Boston College, and University of Michigan have multiple campuses and had to list all of the same information for each. Overall the information was fairly similar. The main topics that were covered on all of the pages overlapped with size of the campus, the list of buildings and their purpose, information of the residence halls. The additional information that was included was interesting and only appeared with some schools. For example, Fairfield also included a little about the safety of the campus, and also more about the location and what there is to do around the college. Dartmouth included different paragraphs for the following; Academic Facilities, athletic facilities, and housing and student life facilities. Although the schools are all very diverse in size and style, but share many of the same qualities when it comes to the campus section of their Wikipedia pages. Ldvar313 (talk) 17:35, 6 October 2014 (UTC)ldvar313

Campus Sources
Residence Halls Information This source comes directly from the Endicott website, and is the main page for Residence Life on campus. On it, the page includes various links and PDF downloads that go into greater detail of housing options at the school and includes images of each. It also has a reference for costs.

Campus Visit Planning Another Endicott-written link, this gives directions on visiting the actual campus and information on tours for prospective students. It provides specific times and dates of events. --Kcari187 (talk) 23:33, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

https://www.cappex.com/colleges/Endicott-College/campus-life#campusSize This source is from Cappex, and gives a lot of information about the campus size and dynamics. For people looking to come here as well as people wanting to know about the campus, it gives good information and statistics.

http://map.endicott.edu This is a direct link to the virtual map of the Endicott Campus, from the Endicott website. It allows you to zoom in, click on and see information about the dorms, buildings and other places on campus. Savannahsylva (talk) 17:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

 Although commercially used as a travel guide, this website gathers information about different locations. The Endicott page is divided into many sections, similar to the school's Wikipedia page. The "Campus" section of the Triposo website listed the buildings like the Wikipedia page does, but, in comparison, had more information for each building, especially the residence halls.

 News article from the "Faculty News" section of the Endicott website published when the Life and Sciences Building opened in the fall of 2013. It gives information about the building and what it offers. Kploo397 (talk) 22:19, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.youvisit.com/endicott This website provides an in-depth virtual tour of the Endicott College Campus. It will show viewers the layout of the campus, as they can directly click on any Residence Hall, or building and be taken directly there. Amandavisvis (talk) 23:16, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/endicott-college-2148 This website is very informative on Residence Halls, as well as providing random facts about the campus. People looking to find out more about the school should visit this site. 23:25, 15 October 2014 (UTC) Amandavisvis (talk) 23:26, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

This website gives a brief explanation of where the campus is located and what it has to offer. This website shows its likeableness because Beantown Camp uses Endicott's campus for their services. --Quinnyoc (talk) 01:39, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

This website also gives a brief description of Endicott's campus explaining it's size and the specific buildings. It also allows the user to view pictures of the college itself. --Quinnyoc (talk) 01:39, 16 October 2014 (UTC) http://windoverconstruction.com/construction/expertise/academic/endicott_1.php This website was created by the company that constructed the LSB, Callahan, Marblehead, stoneridge, bayview, and many other buildings on campus. It offers the specifics of the building. 64.25.240.222 (talk) 03:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC) Tomhelmonds (talk) 19:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC) http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20130831/News/308319826 This site offers the specifics on the opening of the LSB. It is a newspaper and offers some quotes that could be used. 64.25.240.222 (talk) 03:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC) Tomhelmonds (talk) 19:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.endicott.edu/About/Visit/Directions-Endicott.aspx This is the page where the directions to Endicott appear. It would be very helpful for people coming to visit to have easy access to the directions. http://www.endicott.edu/Undergrad/Communication/ECTV73-EC-Radio.aspx This page is about ECTV. This would be beneficial to have on the campus page to provide insight to what else we offer on our campus. Although this isn't a location in itself, it will provide prospective students with an idea of what we offer outside of academics. --Ldvar313 (talk) 03:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC) ldvar313

Campus Content
The campus information, currently, is overwhelming and disorganized. I think it needs to be completely reformatted to Dorms, Academic buildings, and school services. For dorms, we should give a link to the Endicott dorm information page; but, acknowledge some of the more interesting dorms such as: Reynolds and Alahambra. Also, for the academic buildings we should give some facts about them and what majors they house. We should also include ongoing projects such as the hockey rink and senior housing. Another notable thing about Endicott, something I wish I would have known, is the hiking trails behind the school. Maybe we can include that Endicott has X amount of forest and hiking trails behind it and include its 3 private beaches. Overall, the section is disorganized, outdated, and cluttered with a lot of junk. I think we need to take a organized and concise approach to revising this section.64.25.240.222 (talk) 00:38, 22 October 2014 (UTC) Tomhelmonds (talk) 19:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC) A significant amount of the Campus content needs to be changed. There are numerous incorrect "facts," for example, that Beacon Hall has only double rooms, that Birchmont houses only females, etc. Each description isn't nearly as fleshed out as other colleges I researched, so I think it would benefit the page to give more detail. That being said, when the content is updated the vocabularly used needs to be paid special attention to as it is incredibly weak as of now. It's unprofessional and unimpressive to refer to a building as being "very small" instead of including its measured size, occupancy, or other statistic. I appreciate the inclusion of what class is permitted to live where, but I believe a lot of that information has changed and needs to be updated accordingly. There are countless grammatical errors as well. The section is currently set up in alphabetical order, but I strongly believe that the list of dorms should be separate from other buildings (Tupper Manor, Science Center, Callahan, College Hall). More pictures should be included to break up the text-heaviness, considering photos give a better and more accurate representation than descriptions do. I do believe all of the residence halls should stay, but with changes made. --Kcari187 (talk) 18:07, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

There are several things on the current Endicott Campus page that need to be changed. To begin, there doesn't need to be so much detail about every single dorm that is on campus. Something that should stay is the list of dorms, just not all with detail. There should be a link to the campus map, and other places on the Endicott website. Other links could be to make an appointment to come have a tour, or just to find out more. In addition, the most important thing that needs to be added is pictures.Other than that, the guest policies can be listed and also the different types of housing. The only thing that should stay on the campus section of the Endicott Wiki page. --Ldvar313 (talk) 02:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)ldvar313

For the most part, the Campus section gives the utmost basic information. It lists the dorms and most all the buildings, but there is a lot of changes and additions needed to make it to the standard of other colleges. The building with the most information is Winthrop Hall, with a detailed description of the building's history. I think that if one building has the history of it, if it is older, the information should either be put into the history section, or each building should have this information provided. A lot of the buildings include who they are named after and when they are built, but not all. I think this should be added in. I also think for the dorms, they should include how many students they house, and what the demographics of the students they house are- all female, co-ed, etc. I think instead of the list going in alphabetical order, as already stated, that they should go by category, such as the academic buildings be separate from the dorms. I also think the dorms should go in order by the years they house. The nursing building, the soon-to-be ice rink, as well as The Village (mods) are not included in the list of buildings and should be added. Lastly, more pictures are needed. Savannahsylva (talk) 22:22, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

There are many changes that should be made to the Campus section of the website. First off I believe the first description should be a little longer and length and emphasize that the campus has a few incredible beaches. As for the list of the buildings I believe they should be separated into categories rather than all scattered together. Academic buildings first, dorms second, and finally things such as school services. I also think that the dorm descriptions should list more things that are actually relevant to people. I don't think the history is more important here, but rather who lives in the dorm, how many students, etc. Another thing that would be to viewer's interest is a link to the campus map on the Endicott website to see where all of these buildings actually appear on campus. Better pictures for the buildings that are already mentioned should be considered as well as adding some buildings in Athletics such as the Post Center as well as the new ice rink being built currently! --Quinnyoc (talk) 01:10, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Currently, the Campus section of the Endicott College page is a bunch of short sentences about each dorm on campus. I think that this is unimportant information and only the significant (history, important) dorms should be listed on the page. For instance, Reynolds because of the amount of history it has behind it. So some of those should be kept on the page of course, but right now the Campus section is overwhelming. I don't like the short sections of all the dorms. It is very disorganized. I think there should be more about the different buildings on campus such as the Callahan Center and the LSB. The new buildings and construction should be noted on campus as well. Pictures are a major thing that should be added to this section. Pictures are fitting for this section to show the view from all around the campus. The paragraphs should be longer and more organized by buildings and dorms on campus. Also, if need be, a good idea would be to add locations around campus such as Einstein's and the AC Cafe. Amandavisvis (talk) 03:09, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Student Life
The common topics disguised in the "Student Life" sections of the colleges that I researched were athletics, student groups, traditions, popular student wide events that the campus hosts and organizations that the students are involved in. To describe the topics listed the editors broke up the paragraphs into a few sentences explaining the topic as well as going into more detail. They were short and straight to the point. A lot of the cited work led to an external link, many of times to the college's official home page. Lastly, the talk pages were about how the "student life" could be better depicted through less lists and more explanations of the actual activities that the students are involved in. Srond2 (talk) 22:43, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

When researching and reviewing the Wikipedia articles that I chose, I noticed a wide range of topics under Student Life. There was everything from Traditions to Fraternities and Greek Life to overviews of the Residential Life, but overall it focused on topics that thoroughly described the extra-curricular activities and the life outside of the classroom. In my research the paragraph breaks varied from article to article, with some paragraphs having 6-7 sentences to some being more short and sweet with only 2-4 sentences. However, almost every sub-heading had multiple paragraphs within it, so I believe that is a key aspect to focus on. In terms of citations within the article, most articles I looked at had numerous links and citations commonly after every sentence or two. Most of the sources referenced the University/College's official page, but there were also many additional sources that linked to news articles and other credible sources. Finally, there were a few talk threads about the Student Life section of their respective articles, but it was commonly small errors or debatable content changes.

Jeremy Breen Jbree857 (talk) 15:23, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

For the wiki project I chose: Bates College (Maine), Johnson and Wales University (Providence), Coastal Carolina University (South Carolina), Michigan State (Michigan), and Dartmouth College (New Hampshire). As I was browsing through the wikipedia articles about these specific colleges and universities I saw that they had very similar information that was related to student life. There were paragraph breaks to separate student activities, clubs and organizations, and greek life. The sources used on each page mostly came from from the schools website along with websites that would direct you the the schools club organizations and greek societies. Some of the articles used the talk page to discuss some of the issues that happened at the college/university in the past.

On the wikipedia page for Endicott there was not a student life page. When we write the student life page/topic I believe that we could add information about the different clubs, societies, student government, etc... that are on campus. We can discuss the different events that Endicott has every year like: Dr. Wylies BBQ, parents weekend, swipeables, etc... We can also add the student activities that are posted on the Facebook and "Twitter" page. Amanda Park Parkie456 (talk) 10:16, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

The three schools I chose for my Wiki Project were: University of Oregon, Gonzaga College and Tulane University. All of these colleges are quite diverse. They all have very different enrollment and are in different parts of the country. As for their respective student life sections in their Wikipedia article, I found many similarity's in content for all three schools. Clubs and organizations were included in all three with a vast section in the University of oregon's article. Linking to other pages within Wikipedia was very prevalent in all three article as well, just about every two sentences there would be a citation or link. All article were written in academic tone and were very subjective. Gonzaga College, which is the smallest institution of all had a substantially smaller section than the other two schools. I think size of the institution has alot to do with the amount of content that gets put into these articles. Conor Lyons --Clyon173 (talk) 20:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

With the three schools that I had picked, none of them had information on student life. In that case, I’m going to use the information I got from Michigan and Dartmouth. From what I got about the two schools is that they talk about student activities that don’t involve just sports teams, but as well as different organizations that students are involved in. It also mentions traditions that the schools may have and social media such as the student newspaper. Depending on whether the school has Greek life or not, student living can sometimes be mentioned. Also depending on the school wiki page, they might talk about sports as well. However during the creation of the Endicott Wiki page, I would add in some photos of different activities or examples that are given. The student life information is also separated into smaller paragraphs as well as bullets to not overwhelm the reader and make it look more professional in my opinion. Madison Rochlin Mroch016 (talk) 00:02, 6 October 2014 (UTC) mroch016

The schools that I picked did not have large sections about student life. They had short entries about some groups on campus such as fraternities and sororities. Other groups which were discussed in Western Connecticut State University's wiki page included information about Residence Hall Association, Student Government, and a Debate Team. Tufts and Bowdoin had some information about when their Greek Life began and some statistics about it. Tufts also talks a little bit about their student media and newspaper. For Endicott, we should probably talk about some of the clubs on campus and some of the things to do such as the beaches. Tyler Lemieux Tlemi764 (talk) 00:25, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

The 3 schools that I had picked that had very different student life sections. One thing I was a bit confused about was Dean collies page. They did not even have a student life page, not even anything that could relate to student life. The other two schools had fairly big student life topics. The University of New Havens page they do not have a specific student life page, but the do talk about all the Student Organizations they have for the school. My favorite page of the 3 was University of Mississippi because they went into such great detail about what goes on at their school and campus life. They also discussed the Student Media, in addiction to that they talked about their Greek Life and the different fraternities and sororities they have, and last they talk about their Associated Student Body. Their page talk about some topics I would like the either add or improve on Endicott page. Deans talk page is pretty dead, I didn't see much going on there, but there were a little more conversations on Both University of Mississippi and New Haven. Ashaaley6425 (talk) 00:59, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Student Life Sources
http://www.endicott.edu/StudentLife/Student-Activities/Clubs-Organizations.aspx -- This source in particular is great for linking to Student Life because it references Endicott's main page and gives a detailed list of contacts and groups available on campus. This link lists all groups and student clubs on campus, so if we decide to write about the clubs and groups available on campus, this will be a great source to use.

http://www.endicott.edu/StudentLife/Residence-Life.aspx -- Most of the Student Life sections that I read in other articles gave an overview of Residence Life within their schools, and this link directly references the Endicott website and gives a solid overview of the residences without going into too much detail. It discusses the mission, goals, and overview of the Residence Life all together, which will be very helpful if we decide to talk about an overview of the Residence Life at Endicott College.

Jeremy Breen - Jbree857 (talk) 16:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/endicott-college-2148/student-life this website has information about school activities, male to female ratio and other information that I feel can be useful. --Srond264 (talk) 20:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

https://www.facebook.com/endicottsa/ -- While researching student life the first thing I researched was student activities that usually take place on the weekends. Most students at Endicott have Facebook and "like" the page so they are able to see the event's and activities that take place on campus. Recently on the student activities page, Doc. Wylie was having the last BBQ of the season, there was glow in the dark mini golf, and apple picking.

http://www.endicott.edu/StudentLife/Student-Activities.aspx -- The second thing I researched was similar to the "Facebook" student activities page but this page is on the main Endicott website. The website highlights the featured and current events that take place on campus. We can use the information from this page to highlight some of the biggest events that occur on campus every year.

Amanda Park - Parkie456 (talk) 3:50, 15 October 2014 (UTC) http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/endicott-college-2148 - This is an article I found from a website that gathers facts about colleges. It has some statistics about student life which may be relevant to our article About student life. http://www.endicott.edu/~/media/Endicott/home/StudentLife/Residence-Life/Residence-Halls/Open%20House%20Poster%20-%20Residence%20Halls%20for%20FA%202014.pdf -- The other thing about student life that I looked into was what dorms are at Endicott college. I found a PDF document listing the dorms we have available to students. A big part of a student's life is where they live, so it is something we can talk about. Tlemi764 (talk) 18:47, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

https://colleges.niche.com/endicott-college/ http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/endicott-college-2148 -- The first source provides information from students and their experience at Endicott. The second source shows stats about the school and student life. Just the basic knowledge of the schools using charts. mroch016 (talk)

http://www.studentsreview.com/MA/ENC1_comments.html I liked this source because it gives different opinions on Endicott College both positive and negative, It is real opinions about the school no any candy coated stats about the school or famous it tells you want some people truly think. Ashaaley6425 (talk) 03:20, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Student Life Content
Considering there really is not "Student Life" category I think that it is important we are redoing this page. There needs to be more about activities that the school has such as clubs, events and popular outings. There is nothing that can be taken out of this portion, but only added. --Srond264 (talk) 17:40, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Currently, there isn't a Student Life section on the Endicott Wikipedia page so there really isn't anything to decide on keeping, removing, etc. Student Life is a very important section to have because it gives students, possible recruits, and people in general an idea of what goes on outside the classroom. There is a lot of great ideas, links, and information that we have researched and I think including as much of it as we can will benefit the article tremendously. One important thing we shouldn't do is include too much detail about topics such as athletics, residence life, etc. because they will be covered thoroughly in some of the other sections. Clubs, organizations, student events, and popular spots on campus are a few of the topics we can focus on in this article.

Jeremy Breen 64.25.240.222 (talk) 00:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree with Jeremy that we should focus on the clubs, organizations, student events, and popular sports because a lot of other sections of this wiki page will incorporate student life. However I do feel that we should find out if there are any traditions for students at Endicott, weather its for freshman to being a senior. I also feel that we should talk about Boston perhaps and how students have the opportunity to be able to enjoy the city. Should we also include how we have the 3 beaches that students can enjoy and how they are huge hangout spots during the warmer months of the school year. Madison Rochlin -- mroch016 (talk) 19:04, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Just like everyone said since there is no student life portion we can build it up ourselves. I also think we should focus on organizations and student events and go into more detail about it because there is information that can be written in any of the sections. I think this section should be very descriptive in those areas so whoever reads the page has a good understanding about what happens at Endicott. The fact that there is not a student life section it can only get better. Ashaaley6425 (talk) 01:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Student life should be a much more prevalent heading in the Endicott Wikipedia page. I agree with what has been said as far as clubs, organizations and activates being featured. I also think some statistics about the student body and a list of past events would be beneficial. Pictures could also enhance the page as a whole. we could take pictures of fans at games and eating dinner in the Callahan. Student life is a big part of a colleges essence and it should be a large part of this article. --Clyon173 (talk) 01:44, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Athletics
Things mainly discussed consisted of -Sports teams name -What division they are in -School Song -About their stadium -Accomplishments by teams -What percent of students play varsity sports or club/intramural -Rivalries -These are all broken up into different sections in the articles -Many of the information has been taken directly from the college either of their website or others that have to do with their college. --Kjbarry23 (talk) 01:08, 2 October 2014 (UTC)kjbarry23
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Most of the things that are mentioned or talked about in the athletic section are what the team is called or their mascot and team nickname,what division or conference the team is apart of. Some of their successes and achievements they have made in sports over the years. Also their stadiums and arenas the teams play in and some of the school songs and chats that are done during the games. They go into some of the club sports they have as well and how many students partake in each sport or club. Most of the sections are broken up by a specific aspect of sports with stadiums, teams, ranks, and achievements. They get most of their information from the schools athletic page or other sporting sources that are associated with that college. Finally the talk pages will talk about how the teams are doing or performing past and present also some of the controversies with either the mascot or some changes in their athletic program. Jsomosky (talk) 18:56, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Jsomosky

In other schools athletics pages they started off by mentioning the teams mascot and nicknames. They then talked about what conferences the teams were in and are in now. They mentioned national championships and any other big time achievements and often would go into more detail about some of their more decorated teams on campus. In a couple of Wikipedia’s they even mentioned school rivalries between schools. They would also put in things like school song, memorable athletes, and a little about their stadiums and other facilities. Most of the links were links to other Wikipedia’s but some would link to schools athletics pages or an NCAA website. The talk sections had some updates that people wanted to see changed but nothing more than that. Nicholasrusso8 (talk) 16:51, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

In the other schools athletics section they talk about their mascot and their nicknames. They also talk about the division they are in and their conference. All of the athletic sections that I looked at they all had the achievements and championships that their athletics have won in any sport. The arenas they play in is also mentioned as well as the club sports that they also offer. The talk pages talk about how some sports have been doing in the present or past. Some talk pages even go into how well they are expected to be in the near future. Cboudy36 (talk) 17:08, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

The College of Charleston and Dartmouth College both do not have a huge section on athletics. University of Colorado Boulder, Gettysburg College, and University of Michigan all have a large section about their school's athletics. These schools include information about their varsity sports, club sports, and recreation activities, and give the number of sports programs they have at their school. Included are the divisions and conference their school is in, as well as what their mascot is. The history of their mascot is also provided. Athletic accomplishments about particular sports are contained in this section as well. Information is included about different buildings that are dedicated to sports and activities. Some of the colleges include pictures of the fields and facilities that are used by the school's athletes. The colleges also provide information about their school songs and spirit programs. Some of the colleges even include which schools are their rivals for sports. --Piatellij (talk) 00:48, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

The athletics pages of University of Washington and Notre Dame had longer athletics sections considering they are Division I institutions. UW includes information about the origin of the school's mascot, the school song that is often sung by students at athletic events, as well as the institution's stadiums and other athletic facilities. Notre Dame has an extensive article regarding traditions that are common at sporting events. All of the schools' pages that I looked at listed the sports that they compete in, divided by men's and women's athletics. The smaller schools tend to have shorter articles regarding athletics. Notable alumni are mentioned in the athletic section, but not by a bulleted list, there is usually another section of the page devoted to notable alumni. Notre Dame has an entire page for Notre Dame Football, which is something that is probably unnecessary for the Endicott College page. Dartmouth doesn't even have an article for their athletics, their info box simply says how many varsity sports that they offer. Lawman616 (talk) 16:31, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Athletics Sources
http://www.endicott.edu/Athletics.aspx This is one of the better websites because it is right off the main Endicott website and give a bunch of different information regarding athletics. It give information with all the resources needed to find out more about the athletics on campus. https://twitter.com/ECGulls this is also a great site to get live updates on all of the athletic teams on campus if you want to be more involved directly about present news and what is going on if you can not make the games or you want to know how a certain person did depending on the sport kjbarry23--Kjbarry23 (talk) 22:39, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

http://cccathletics.com/landing/index This is a good website to use for Endicott's athletics because it's the conference Endicott division 3 teams compete in so it can give you information on how Endicott does in the conference and the teams we play against. http://beverly.wickedlocal.com/sports This is a link to the Beverly Wicked local pages that always has articles about sports teams at Endicott both during the season and in the offseason. Nicholasrusso8 (talk) 23:10, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Endicott Athletic's This link contains information about the different levels of sports that students can participate in like varsity and club. If you scroll further to the bottom, you can see who is in Endicott's conference and what colleges Endicott's sports have played against. Endicott Athletic's Facebook Page Endicott has their own Facebook page for sports and activities which includes new updates for people to see. The Facebook page includes upcoming game times and even information about players on different teams throughout Endicott. --Piatellij (talk) 16:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

http://endicott.prestosports.com/livestats/landing I thought this was a good website because it gives live stats of every sport in Endicott during the game. You can just look at your phone if your not at the game and you can have live stats right there for you. http://www.ncaa.com/schools/endicott I also think this is a good website because it is the official ncaa website about endicott. It gives everything about Endicott in all division 3 sports. Cboudy36 (talk) 18:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

https://colleges.niche.com/endicott-college/athletics/ This link has information from the students themselves about how the games are and what it is like being at Endicott athletic events. Good site if you want quotes from students on how endicott performs. And the link http://www.uscho.com/2014/06/23/endicott-college-to-join-ncaa-division-iii-ranks-in-2015/ has good information on upcoming things that will be happening for the athletic programs here at Endicott.--Jsomosky (talk) 19:30, 16 October 2014 (UTC) Jsomosky

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/endicott-college-2148 - This website is mostly used for college rankings, but does have some helpful information regarding athletics. http://ecgulls.com/sports/intramurals-recreation/index - This is the intramural section of the Endicott Athletics site if we decide to include a brief subsection dedicated to intramural sports at Endicott. Lawman616 (talk) 23:14, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Athletics Content
The page has the division Endicott is in and also the Conference we belong to. It even has the conference we used to belong to, which could all stay in the article. Then it lists the sports teams but doesn’t mention anything else about them. We should add the championships they won and a little brief write up about each one. We can also mention the athletic facilities they use in a write up. We should also include the NEFC conference that the football team is in and the NECC conference that Men’s Volleyball is in. Nicholasrusso8 (talk) 16:52, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

There is beneficial information about the conference and division Endicott is in, which we should keep; however, there is little information about the athletic programs and facilities that Endicott provides. The page does not discuss the history of our mascot, and why our Mascot is the Gull. Other school's Wikipedia pages include both information and pictures of the facilities their sports teams use, which Endicott does not. We should include information and pictures of the facilities that the Endicott athletes use. Endicott's Wikipedia page only discusses the varsity sports at the college. We should include information about both varsity and club sports as well, and we can even provide information about organizations and clubs Endicott offers. We should incorporate information about the titles and awards different teams have won over the years as well. --64.25.240.222 (talk) 18:00, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

We can add information to the page on all the varsity teams at Endicott and say who has won championships and what accomplishments we have made. Also mentioning the new ice rink that is being added would be good information since that will be a big upcoming thing at Endicott. Talking about the athletic fields would be some important information that can be added as well. Some history of athletics here can be talked about as well since there is no information on how the teams have done in the past. --Jsomosky (talk) 18:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Jsomosky

I agree with what everyone has said so far. I believe that the hockey rink would be a great thing to put up there and how the hockey team will not be a club team anymore, but a division 3 team. We should put the information about all teams varsity and club so people know what to expect for when they come up to Endicott. I think we should also include intramural sports as well because if people don't really want to go out for a sport they can see what else Endicott has to offer. I also agree that we should put all teams accomplishments club and varsity because it shows how well our sports teams have done in the past and it will make people want to join if our teams are good. Cboudy36 (talk) 20:52, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I think the list of men's and women's sports could be organized better, as well as listing the awards and achievements that each have received. Maybe use a table of some sort to do this? I agree with what everyone has said so far regarding the mascot history, club sports, maybe a short paragraph about intramural sports that are offered and how many students participate in varsity, club and intramural athletics. A lot of universities include the alma mater or a fight song of some sort if one exists for Endicott. Also, even though it will probably be mentioned in another sub-section, we could include information about the athletic buildings and fields on campus like the Post Center, Endicott Stadium, etc. Lawman616 (talk) 22:53, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

So far what everyone has said seems to be great and will be an amazing athletics page that will really represent Endicott. Another thing to add could be a short list of the head coaches of each coach. Like what was said about putting on the website how there has been all new turf added and how they are building an ice rink is a great idea to show that Endicot is always improving. Dates about all sports and when they started and their achievements would be a good idea because on other pages they explained that well. --Kjbarry23 (talk) 01:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)kjbarry23

Alumni / Notable People
Each Wikipedia page was filled with different qualities of information. Cornell, University of Michigan and Dartmouth had a far higher degree of information compared to Loyola University Maryland and UC Santa Cruz. The first three universities had several paragraphs chock-full of information about their alumni. However, Loyola Maryland only had one small paragraph and UC Santa Cruz had no alumni section at all. Cornell, University of Michigan and Dartmouth separated their alumni into paragraphs based on their career fields. For example, all the Nobel Prize winners from Cornell or Dartmouth were featured in their own paragraph. CEO’s of major corporations and government officials were all divided into their own categories. This division of alumni made it easy to read and decipher their post-school success. Even with the detailed accounts of the schools’ alumni, Cornell, University of Michigan and Dartmouth all provided an addition link to a more in depth look at their alumni. In addition, the three schools used extensive references to support their claims, for example; University of Michigan cited “famous U-M alumni” several times. Loyola Maryland would benefit from more resources as they only cited a handful. Besides a small section in the Loyola Maryland talk section about alumni, all other school didn’t mention alumni in their talk pages.--Ecg5695 (talk) 19:57, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Unlike Endicott, many schools have a hearty Alumni section, filled with key information about individuals that attended the schools. These sections don't just include notable alumni, but rather give a background on there previous students as a whole. Some pages, however, like The University of Alabama, only utilize a list of the people that attended. This is because there have been so many important people in the media that have graduated from the school, that not all can get a lengthy paragraph explaining their achievements. The important subsections to all of these pages, though, are sports stars, celebrities and politicians. We know these are credible from the references the authors claim to have found the information on. Some resources used frequently are the Universities' website, sports references and Congress' biographical pages. Also, all that is mentioned on any Talk page about the Alumni sections, is missing information about a former attendee. For the most part, the Alumni section stays out of the Talk section for colleges. Hayhay3195 (talk) 19:43, 5 October 2014 (UTC)hayhay3195

The Alumni/Notable pages of Northwestern University, Penn State, Colgate University, Dartmouth, and University of Michigan vary in length, format, and notability. For the bigger schools, there were long paragraphs denoting their alumni sectioned by major/jobs and it usually started off with recognizing their alumni that were in politics. For each school, if there was any information about specific alum, there was usually a sentence after their name that indicated what they did and how they were successful. There were generally citations after every name that was listed for all the schools. Northwestern and Penn State both link to a completely separate Wikipedia pages that are dedicated to their alumni, and were in bulleted form also sectioned off the same way as the others- by major/jobs. Northwestern also had a large section for alumni on their main page in addition to the separate alumni Wiki page, while Penn State just linked to a separate page. Discussions about Alumni on the Talk page were sparse, unless it was a comment noting that someone should be added. Gkkiley (talk) 19:49, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

After reading through the articles on each of the three colleges I chose I realized each of them need a lot of work. All three articles were extremely scarce and could use much more information. Starting with Rollins, the Notable Alumni section in the article was just a link to a new page. The link leads to another article that listed the notable alumni and people. For each persons name in the list, it was a link to the Wikipedia page about that person. Many of the references listed were from the Rollins College Library as well as the actual website. Florida Gulf Coast listed their alumni as bullet points with additional links that lead to the Wikipedia page about the person. It also contained an additional section titled, "See Also" which listed a link that brought you to a page dedicated to Florida Gulf Coast's list of people. Out of all the college pages I researched, Iowa State University was the only article to have an actual written paragraph in the Notable Alumni section rather than simply listing the names. Within this paragraph the actual names of important people were not listed at all but rather the titles they received after graduation. For example, CEO, Astronaut, ect. In the Iowa State's talk page there were many comments from people requesting to know who were the people who had received those titles. Each article's talk page have conversations and comments requesting further information about their Notable Alumni and people. There was no satisfaction with any of these pages section of important people. Kbgaudet (talk) 21:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

I researched the Alumni section on the Wikipedia articles for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the University of California, Berkeley, North Carolina State University, Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan. It was interesting to find out that most of these institutions had relatively similar formatting for their alumni section. With the exception of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, which only had one name listed under its Alumni section, every institution breaks their paragraphs down so each one represents a different category of alumni accomplishments. The main categories were alumni that held a famous or professional position in government, athletics, writing and directing, science, entrepreneurs and business owners. The focal points of the alumni sections concentrated on the aspects that the particular institution was known for. For instance, UC Berkeley’s alumni section was substantially dominated by award-winners for screenplays and writing, while NC State’s was dominated by the amount of alum that continued into the NFL after college. Each article used in-text citations and there was no discussion on any of these institutions talk pages referencing the alumni sections. Katherine Stolar (talk) 02:43, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Alumni / Notable People Sources
Endicott College Alumni Relations This is the main page for the Alumni section of Endicott's website, which provides loads of information about alumni events, news, and staff. This is a credible source because it is hosted by the official Endicott website itself, and is most likely where alumni go first to seek out reliable information about alumni events, etc. Endicott Alumni Facebook Page The official Facebook page for Endicott Alumni can be used as a credible source in the sense that it is updated daily, typically more than once. This link can help research big events that happened, and how involved the Alumni association is with Endicott. Gkkiley (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Endicott Alumni Linked In Page In order to broaden connections and keep in touch with classmates, an alumni member of Endicott made a Linked In group. This could benefit our project because we can see what they are doing for work now and how their education here helped them grow.

Endicott and I by Eleanor Tupper. This book, which I found in the library, was written by the founder of Endicott. It was written and published in 1985 and gives background information about this school. Within it, there is history about the girls who went here, the founders and the early educators. I think this book could be a good source for a lot of the Wikipedia page because it has a lot of history and key information people should know about Endicott College as a whole.

--Hayhay3195 (talk) 18:05, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Endicott College Alumni Events is a great tool to utilize for this section of the Wiki Project because it comes directly from the official Endicott College website. It will be useful because it is kept up to date to keep students and alumni in the know of every alumni event happening whether it is on or off campus. This page offers past and upcoming events, along with images taken at these different events. Katherine Stolar (talk) 21:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Alumni / Notable People Content
The alumni section of the Wikipedia page for Endicott as of now is sparse and can definitely use some more information, even if there are not many notable alumni. This section could possibly be used to put information/link to the Endicott Alumni Association. Gkkiley (talk) 16:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The alumni section could definitely be improved with a more detailed and extensive list of prominent alumni. Since there is a more limited list, we could go into more detail on each specific alumni. Ecg5695 (talk) 23:32, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree with Ecg5695 and Gkkiley that there should be more details about prominent alumni. I think though, that Endicott attracts a certain kind of person and this could be explored through the past students that have attended Endicott. Hayhay3195 (talk) 23:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree with everything that has been said so far in the efforts to improve this section of the Wiki article. I think there needs to be more information added about the current alumni listed, such as any notable contributions they have made to Endicott. I also think there should be a more substantial amount of alumni noted, how Endicott values alumni, and any traditional events that take place for Endciott alumni. Katherine Stolar (talk) 23:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Templates
When I was doing research on other schools. What I found out about all of the Wikipedia pages that I was on is that there is always 2 or 3 templates. On every page there is usually an athletic template that would bring you to more sites and source to find information about athletics for that school. What also is one of the templates on most Wikipedia pages is just another source that had great information about the topics that I was searching for. I found a lot a lot of good information on what templates could go on the Endicott college Wikipedia page. I am still doing some research on what else can make the templates on the Endicott page helpful for all people who visit the page. Ryanaknox63 (talk)Ryanaknox63

Academics

After researching five different universities' academic sections, it is clear that universities use this section as a form of advertisement. First, all of the schools explained what kind of institution they were and proceeded to throw out some numbers referring to the number of programs, majors, and degrees offered at the school. Running off of the information, they list the highly acclaimed majors in the school. One school, Dartmouth College, listed some of their teachers who worked in the bigger major departments. Every school also made sure to mention something about acceptance rates and financial aid. These highly acclaimed universities want to show off their elite status and make it seem like its not impossible to afford such schools. As i mentioned before, each school seemed to enjoy including every ranking of academic success from every single newspaper, or committee. Its a successful way to promote the school. Accomplishments by faculty members were also included as it gave the employees a more elite feeling. Finally, each school wrote about a little history, or unique aspect to their academic program. For example, University of Michigan awards academic success with great detail. You can receive with honors, highest honors, or even get invited to a ceremony for the students with the highest academic performances. Ndelo527 (talk) 19:11, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Templates Sources
Endicott home page This is a helpful page because it will bring you to the main college page with all the information about the school. This can be helpful in a lot of ways if you are looking for extra information about the College. Another great source is the Endicott Athletics page Endicott Athletics this page can bring you on updates on scores and other information about their athletics.Ryanaknox63 (talk) 15:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Ryan Knox

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When I was looking at the templates for Endicott College I found that they were really good and I don't think we would need to take them off or change them. I compared them to other schools Wikipedia pages and they all had the same type of templates. Every page has a athletics template and then a template that bring them to the official site and home page of the school. I think that was is there now should stay but if we were to or should add is maybe a template that leads to another site that has more history on the school or a template that has links to related articles on the school that can bring the ready to more information about the school. A lot of people will look at the templates for several reason, one being that they want other sources to get information. Compared to other Wikipedia pages, Endicott College Wikipedia page templates are similar to a lot of others, some things just might have to be added in.Ryanaknox63 (talk) 17:30, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Ryanaknox63