Talk:William Treanor

My name is Kara Tershel. I am the director of media relations at Georgetown Law. http://www.law.georgetown.edu/

I would like to contribute updated information for Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor. I am aware of Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines and will abide by them.

I am hoping for some guidance on best Wikipedia practices. Is it appropriate for me to edit directly Dean Treanor’s page? Or should I volunteer information on the talk page and ask for Wikipedians’ help in posting the edits?

Please feel free to contact me at mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

Treanor left his position as dean of Fordham Law School to become dean of Georgetown Law on August 16, 2010. However, the present tenses used on his Wikipedia page lead the reader to believe that he is still at Fordham. Likewise, an outdated Fordham photo appears.

I would like to propose the following edits be made on Dean Treanor’s Wikipedia page to reflect his current position at Georgetown Law.

1.) Replace the present photo with his more recent photo on the Georgetown Law website. (We will supply a high-res image.) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?status=faculty&id=2779

2.) Incorporate a section about Dean Treanor’s time at Georgetown Law that includes accomplishments, news articles and a campus photograph. (Again, we will supply a high-res image.)

Since Treanor became Georgetown Law dean,

• The number of experiential learning courses has grown to 16. (1)

• The number of students taking externships increased to more than 70% what it was in previous years. (2)

• Six new faculty members have been hired. (3)

• Two congressional clerk fellowships for Georgetown Law graduates have been created. (4)

• An LL.M. degree program in national security law has been established. (5)

He has been featured in the following articles:

• “The Transformation of Legal Education” DC Bar magazine, May 2011 http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/publications/washington_lawyer/may_2011/legal_education.cfm

• “Educators: Congress Needs Law Clerks” National Law Journal, May 5, 2011 http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202493152192&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&cn=20110506nlj&kw=Educators%3A%20Congress%20needs%20law%20clerks&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

• “Law Schools Go Global” U.S. News & World Report, March 29, 2011 http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2011/03/29/law-schools-go-global

• “No Humbugs Here” National Law Journal, December 20, 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/gulcinthenews.html

• “A Conversation with Dean William Treanor” Georgetown Law magazine, Fall/Winter 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2010-fall/feature-articles/a-conversation-with-dean-william-treanor/

• “Q&A: Georgetown Law Center’s New Dean Discusses School’s Steps to Help Students in a Time of Law Firm Cutbacks” Washington Post, August 23, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005131.html

3.) Add the following Dean Treanor quotes to the “Quotes” tab.

• “This is a time of change for legal practice. The change in the economy precipitated changes that would have come inevitably…It does cause us to rethink how we prepare lawyers.” (6)

• “Georgetown is a law school with incredible strength, so both in the first year and longer term, what I see as my mission is to build on those strengths. We’ll be focusing on experiential learning, externships and increasing opportunities in those areas. We’re going to be focusing on the academic depth and intellect strengths of the law school and continue to build on that with new hires. I consider myself incredibly privileged to be here at this moment.” (7)

• “Georgetown has unrivaled academic richness and scholarly excellence. Many of the leading legal thinkers in the country are here, and I’m privileged to be in their company.” (8)

4.) Here are our references:

Georgetown Law Website, August 3, 2011 (1) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/events/documents/experientiallearningopportunities20112012rev080311.pdf

Georgetown Law magazine, Spring/Summer 2011 (2) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2011-spring/downloads/AClinicGrows.pdf

Georgetown Law Press Release, May 12, 2011 (3) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/May.12.2011b.html

Georgetown Law Web Story, April 7, 2011 (4) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/webstory/4.7.11.html

Georgetown Law Press Release, December 15, 2010 (5)

	http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/december.13.2010.html

“The Transformation of Legal Education” (6) DC Bar magazine, May 2011 http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/publications/washington_lawyer/may_2011/legal_education.cfm

“Q&A: Georgetown Law Center’s New Dean Discusses School’s Steps to Help Students in a Time of Law Firm Cutbacks” (7) The Washington Post, August 23, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005131.html

“A Conversation with Dean William Treanor” (8) Georgetown Law magazine, Fall/Winter 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2010-fall/feature-articles/a-conversation-with-dean-william-treanor/

We look forward to receiving your feedback and answering any questions you may have.

Thank you very much for your time.

GtownLawMedia (talk) 22:19, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Re-submission of Proposed Updates

Overview

My name is Kara Tershel. I am the director of media relations at Georgetown Law. http://www.law.georgetown.edu/

I would like to contribute updated information for Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor. I am aware of Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines and will abide by them.

I am hoping for some guidance on best Wikipedia practices. Is it appropriate for me to edit directly Dean Treanor’s page? Or should I volunteer information on the talk page and ask for Wikipedians’ help in posting the edits?

I would like to propose the following edits be made on Dean Treanor’s Wikipedia page to reflect his current position at Georgetown Law. Can some or all of these updates be made?

I have cited impartial third-party sources where possible. As advised by Wikipedian Orangemike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Orangemike), I’m re-submitting these proposed updates under my own personal account, not an institutional one.

Please feel free to contact me at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.

Update Tenses

Treanor left his position as dean of Fordham Law School to become dean of Georgetown Law on August 16, 2010. However, the present tenses used on his Wikipedia page lead the reader to believe that he is still at Fordham. We would like to update the verb tenses.

Photo

An outdated Fordham photo appears. We would like to replace the present photo with a more recent one. (We will supply a high-res image.) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?status=faculty&id=2779

Tenure at Georgetown Law

We want to incorporate a section about Dean Treanor’s time at Georgetown Law that includes accomplishments, news articles and a campus photograph. (Again, we will supply a high-res image.)

Since Treanor became Georgetown Law dean,

• The number of experiential learning courses has grown to 16. (1)

• The number of students taking externships increased to more than 70% what it was in previous years. (2)

• Six new faculty members have been hired. (3)

• Two congressional clerk fellowships for Georgetown Law graduates have been created. (4)

• An LL.M. degree program in national security law has been established. (5)

In the News

We would like to add the following news articles where Treanor is featured:

• “The Transformation of Legal Education” DC Bar magazine, May 2011 http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/publications/washington_lawyer/may_2011/legal_education.cfm

• “Educators: Congress Needs Law Clerks” National Law Journal, May 5, 2011 http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202493152192&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&cn=20110506nlj&kw=Educators%3A%20Congress%20needs%20law%20clerks&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

• “Law Schools Go Global” U.S. News & World Report, March 29, 2011 http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2011/03/29/law-schools-go-global

• “No Humbugs Here” National Law Journal, December 20, 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/gulcinthenews.html

• “A Conversation with Dean William Treanor” Georgetown Law magazine, Fall/Winter 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2010-fall/feature-articles/a-conversation-with-dean-william-treanor/

• “Q&A: Georgetown Law Center’s New Dean Discusses School’s Steps to Help Students in a Time of Law Firm Cutbacks” Washington Post, August 23, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005131.html

Quotes

We want to add new quotes from Dean Treanor:

• “This is a time of change for legal practice. The change in the economy precipitated changes that would have come inevitably…It does cause us to rethink how we prepare lawyers.” (6)

• “Georgetown is a law school with incredible strength, so both in the first year and longer term, what I see as my mission is to build on those strengths. We’ll be focusing on experiential learning, externships and increasing opportunities in those areas. We’re going to be focusing on the academic depth and intellect strengths of the law school and continue to build on that with new hires. I consider myself incredibly privileged to be here at this moment.” (7)

• “Georgetown has unrivaled academic richness and scholarly excellence. Many of the leading legal thinkers in the country are here, and I’m privileged to be in their company.” (8)

References

Here are our references. We have cited impartial third-party sources where possible.

Georgetown Law Website, August 3, 2011 (1) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/events/documents/experientiallearningopportunities20112012rev080311.pdf

Georgetown Law magazine, Spring/Summer 2011 (2) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2011-spring/downloads/AClinicGrows.pdf

Georgetown Law Press Release, May 12, 2011 (3) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/May.12.2011b.html

Georgetown Law Web Story, April 7, 2011 (4) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/webstory/4.7.11.html

Georgetown Law Press Release, December 15, 2010 (5) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/december.13.2010.html

“The Transformation of Legal Education” (6) DC Bar magazine, May 2011 http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/publications/washington_lawyer/may_2011/legal_education.cfm

“Q&A: Georgetown Law Center’s New Dean Discusses School’s Steps to Help Students in a Time of Law Firm Cutbacks” (7) The Washington Post, August 23, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005131.html

“A Conversation with Dean William Treanor” (8) Georgetown Law magazine, Fall/Winter 2010 http://www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/magazine/2010-fall/feature-articles/a-conversation-with-dean-william-treanor/

We look forward to receiving your feedback and answering any questions you may have.

Thank you very much for your time.

Karatershel (talk) 22:17, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

At first blush, little or none of the stuff referenced to georgetown is going to be appropiate to add. Stuff sourced to http://www.usnews.com/ and DC Bar magazine looks good. Note that what I'm looking for here is a quality editorial policy that is independent of the subject and their employer and immediate circle. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for adding the image. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:27, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your guidance and feedback. With your blessing, we will post the items attributed to third-party sources (U.S. News, DC Bar magazine, National Law Journal, Washington Post), as well as an updated image. Karatershel (talk) 19:24, 27 April 2012 (UTC)