Talk:CUNY Graduate Center/Archives/2018

Complying with Wikipedia:College and university article advice

As a member of the WikiProject Universities, the Graduate Center, CUNY article would benefit from complying with the Project's article guidelines. The guidelines stipulate a specific arrangement of information according to a common format.

Information on the guidelines can be found here. --Joeyvandernaald (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Deleted "Rankings"

After the proposal to delete rankings went uncommented for almost a week, have gone ahead and done so. People who want to know how the private commercial magazine U.S. News and World Report ranks university departments according to its standards (as opposed to what the Princeton Review, Barron's or other publications might think) can go look it up at the source. They don't need it repeated on Wikipedia as if it has special relevance. It should not be given that much authority. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.14.107.184 (talk) 14:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I believe that the page should include a more robust 'Academics' section that has this information in it. I understand the desire to leave it out, but it is actually valuable information and is the only way that the Graduate Center can be measured in rankings as an autonomous doctoral granting institution. Dartmouth College's article has a nice USNWR graduate school rankings box that could be copied here. Joeyvandernaald (talk) 06:16, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

What is the means for adjudicating this? It is ridiculous that a commercial and slanted "ranking" by some magazine is conferred this authority over any educational institution. If US News wants to publish articles actually comparing programs on their complex merits, fine. Their opinion about a number has no validity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.96.24.248 (talk) 17:20, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

That information is available to you via their site. This is not the forum (or even a forum) for you to air your grievances with the US News and World Report's rankings. Our job here is to neutrally report verifiable information published by reliable sources. USNWR happens to be one of those reputable sources and their rankings are widely known, if not the thing the entire magazine is most known for. If you have fault with their mere existence, then simply ignore sentences which contain mention of them. JesseRafe (talk) 22:32, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Research Centers section

The Research Centers section at present should really be turned into something more suitable for an encyclopedia article; at present, it's just a list of the centers with external links for each. Perhaps a better format for displaying this information would include general information about why there are so many research centers at the Graduate Center (this seems like a good question, as not every public university has so many) and what are some notable qualities about each.

If there are some that are particularly notable, perhaps there could be a paragraph or sub-section about these with more information written out. What I think should be eventually removed is the list of links. Joeyvandernaald (talk) 20:00, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

New suggestion - create a list article that features all the Graduate Center research centers and institutes and have this page link to it. Joeyvandernaald (talk) 21:38, 5 July 2018 (UTC)