Talk:Empire State University/Archives/2008

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I would like to help develop the page for 'Language and Cultural Studies' --Jseidel 13:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

I have added the date established, concentrations available by online study and the interesting fact that international students pay the same tuition rates as everyone else. Also, you can tailor your own degree and give it a title of your own choice, subject to approval. You need to submit a rationale and have an academic advisor or mentor. Sometimes SUNY will help design credit courses for you by working with professors from other SUNY campuses or even different institutions. Called, emailed and confirmed. --FutureSUNYStudent 21:33, 08 December 2007 (AEST DST)

Reversal of Edit

I reversed the revisions of this article by User:Scientizzle because of errors in his edits. It is true that Dr. Alan Davis was chosen as Empire State's new president, but his appointment isn't effective until August 1. So until then, Dr. Joyce Elliot is still the Interim President of the college. I'm a student there, so I know the news. 68.236.153.191 (talk) 23:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

And I'm going to reverse your reversal. The cited source indicates all the information you provide and, since Wikipedia is not a news outlet, there's no need to subject the topic to an August 1 edit when it's perfectly valid to cite Davis as the named president. Furthermore, your reversion was to a clearly inferior version of the page that reads like a poorly constructed brochure rather than an encyclopedia article. — Scientizzle 23:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

"Can't we all just get along?" An intermediate post between the two of you would be to leave Davis listed as President, with the parenthetical note "effective August 1, 2008." Makes both of you happy.Fredrik Coulter (talk) 21:10, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Moving On

Bob Herbert, The Times columnist is among our most distinguished grads. I added him. We ought to be on the lookout for others. And there is certainly plenty of work to do on the business of how this unusual school got started. And why it is quite different from most other SUNY campus-based schools. We really don't have campuses, do we? Just offices, all around the state! JWunsch 22:14, 26 November 2008 (UTC)