Talk:University of Colorado at Denver

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[edit] Update from university

The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) was officially consolidated by the Board of Regents in July 2004. Much of the administrative consolidation has now taken place and we have a new chancellor, M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, to further the process.

Merging these three Wikipedia Web sites does not seem practical at the moment, since the UCDHSC site isn't complete. However, there are inaccuracies on all three sites that should be corrected. I have recently been charged with monitoring and updating this site on behalf of the university and will do my best to correct and update information on these sites over the next several weeks.

Deanna Beckett, UCDHSC Office of Marketing Communications

Hi Deanna,

Thanks for the update. I changed the format of your discussion post to match the format of the other posts. Please make an effort to make things consistent in the future. I am especially concerned that if the articles are solely updated by marketing personnel at the university that they will not be free of bias. Please do your best to make sure you discuss any changes you make and that those changes are based primarily on outside sources and not marketing materials.

--Tspike 15:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging universities; merging articles

The suggestion was to merge University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and University of Colorado at Denver to form an entirely new article, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center.

That would be appropriate if UCDHSC is the one and only name by which this university will be known after the two entities have merged. I just don't know enough about it to say if that's the right approach.

After the merging is complete, then redirects to the new article will replace each of the older articles. To be complete, it would be appropriate to track down all the references to the former articles, and change them to point to the new article, updating the surrounding text, if necessary.

--GraemeMcRae 16:14, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that University of Colorado at Denver is merging with the Health Sciences Center. Isn't UCD still going to be on the Auraria campus, and the UCHSC going to be in Fitzsimons? There are still to separate websites for each of these schools [1] and [2]. I see that on the websites, they combined the names, but I still feel that they are there own separate institutions, in geographically separate areas, with different purposes and goals. In fact they even are called by separate names on the website as CU-Denver and the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center. I don't think its appropriate to merge them.

Vertigo700 08:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Vertigo700. The whole thing came up when someone merged the two names in the Colorado article, creating a redlink for the new name. I reverted that edit, and rescinded the request to merge the articles.
--GraemeMcRae^talk 14:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reads like an advertisement

I added the Advert template because the current version of this article includes words that attach positive connotations to the University that aren't objective. For example, the 'Campus' section includes numerous instances of this, like "ideal location," "most vibrant urban centers," and "best skiing" etc.

The faculty section attributes values to the faculty that faculty members may or may not share, for example the "deep appreciation for technology," and "a very real passion for teaching."

The necessary changes are fairly small, and I'd like to hear what others have to say. --Tspike 18:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

It is obviously an advertisement. As a student I'm a little put off by the fact that the marketing office assigned somebody to the wikipedia page. The faculty section is obviously biased and laughable in the cases of some professors. So please, make whatever changes you feel are necessary.The things about skiing and whatever else in Colorado are irrelevant. While I personally agree that the campus is beautiful and located in an amazing area of the city, that's all POV too.24.8.6.242 05:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)