Talk:Dublin City University
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I removed the paragraph referring to the seanad vote after reading this article: http://www.dcu.ie/news/press/2004/p0404c.shtml
Here is the paragraph I removed:
University graduates are currently (2004) not eligible to vote for Ireland's upper chamber, Seanad Éireann, this is under review.
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[edit] To do list
- Check association of European School of Business
- Fill out Category:Dublin City University (largely done)
- List more links under "in other languages", currently only Irish, French, Finnish, Italian, Japanese and Norwegian definition links are included. (Isn't that done automatically as soon as somebody writes an article on DCU in a new language?)
- no it isn't, the link has to be included at the bottom of the page.
- List of Dublin City University people needs to be cleaned up.
- Remove excess of links, particularily links to research institutions and replace with link to resarch websites
- Make it read less like a marketing blurb
[edit] Location
DCU is in Glasnevin NOT Whitehall (see official address)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.42.79.216 (talk • contribs).
- What offical address when i checked their website their was noting , and an osi map had whitehall printed over the top of DCU (Gnevin 12:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC))
- If you check http://address.anpost.ie (registration required) then the addresses of DCU all include Whitehall and none for Glasnevin. Djegan 13:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
The old Albert College (Dublin) (which is part of DCU's main campus) has had its address as Glasnevin since 1838, a long time before Ballymun came into existance.
- Albert College does not appear in the An Post database, but in any case I think we can take it that the boundaries of places change over time. For instance the boundaries of cities and counties have changed since 1838, see in particular Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898; now if Ballymun, Glasnevin and Whitehall have changed I cannot say for certain, but nor can I say for certain that they have not changed.
- But what is true is that the postal service of the state, as by law established, indicates that the correct postal address for the university is "Dublin City University, Collins Avenue Extension, Whitehall, Dublin 9". Djegan 01:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New Acting BA Degree Source:
Source for the three year BA in Acting in conjunction with Dublin City University:
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=200&docID=2957 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 136.206.11.249 (talk) 18:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC).
- The fact that the university grants degrees at a college does not mean that the college is a college of the university. Djegan 22:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite
This article needs to be rewritten as it is somewhat incoherent. We are adding lots of information which makes it somewhat incoherent. It would be invaluable to rewrite it (or sections of it) so that the article forms one coherent narrative. Any takers? Djegan 23:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Controversies section
There is no Controversies section in either the UCC or UCD articles even though the managment and reforms in these two institutions has been far more controversial and newspaper headline-gripping than DCU's problems.
In the recently added controversies section it says that DCU has near-corporate behaviour. As far as the corporate whoreing of universities in ireland is concerned, UCD has far surpassed DCU in that respect years ago since Dr. Hugh R. Brady took the helm as President of UCD.
TCD and UCC at least rival DCU in the university corporate whoreing leagues.
UCC has been far more controversial in the past few years with university president Prof. Gerard T Wrixon getting the University into between 60 and 100 million euro in debt. Lecturers in UCC complain of bullying and unfair employment practices.
These facts are ignored by user 83.147.172.138, yet DCU is singled out to be picked on by a user with London based ip address: 83.147.172.138 who says he's been in DCU for the past 6 years. Maybe he's thinking of another university in London with a name somewhat similar to DCU.
User 83.147.172.138, FYI The digital cafe is upstairs in the main restaurant.
There were signs up all over the main restaurant back in 2003/2004 stating that the starbucks there was the first one in Ireland.
Source for faculty number of 440: http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/parents.asp?id=4263 (21/08/2006)
- The controversies section is not verified theirfore if citations are not provided then I will remove the section en masse. Many of the citations that where provided where simply misleading, as they did not back the claims made. Remember that editors wishing to include claims must back them up when requested, per WP:VERIFY. Also I will remove the {{fact}} requests by the editor as these where made in bad faith because I challenged the editor, I think its quite pointless trying to cite these requests. The best option would be to revert the article to before the controversy, the editor was simply a vandal and is currently blocked. Djegan 17:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
