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Contents 1 Enrollment Growth 2 Metro area? 3 some renaming is in order 4 Disambiguation 5 Enrollment 6 Social organizations and club sports 6.1 Update

[edit] Enrollment Growth

This section does not seem to be of great value, and I feel that it detracts from the overall feel of the article. I think this section should be removed. Chills42 18:43, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metro area?

I'd like to challenge the new categorization that Anderson University is within the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Familiarity with Central Indiana, along with the definition of metropolitan will clearly show that AU is not in the Indy metro area. From the wiki definition of metropolitan: "A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character..." Because Anderson is some 20+ miles away from the north side of Indy, and that Anderson is a separate city with its own economic base and non-contiguous, I think this categorization should be removed. Bouse 16:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I completely agree with Bouse, the Indianapolis Metropolitan area would reach no further northeast than Fishers and Noblesville. Chills42 14:08, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I am Removing AU from the Indianapolis metropolitan area category. Chills42 14:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] some renaming is in order

Anderson College in Anderson, SC changed its name to Anderson University on 1-1-2006. I suggest that this page should be moved to Anderson University (IN), that Anderson College be moved to Anderson College (SC) and the page Anderson College (disambiguation) be created. I'll work on this, but if someone gets to it first, great. Matt Kurz

[edit] Disambiguation

I have created the page Anderson University (disambiguation) Matt Kurz 1-30-06

[edit] Enrollment

There are several problems regarding this issue. The first of which was the section for it, which I removed. This section was not needed as this information is also in the infobox. The infobox itself may or may not have the correct numbers, which is clearly visible because the page currently contradicts itself on this issue. Chills42 (talk) 20:59, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Social organizations and club sports

This article is rapidly becoming non-encylopedic. Much of the content is focusing on social clubs and club sports. I would recommend removal of such items as they lessen the importance of the university. Since much of it is already unreferenced, without creditable sources, it may be subject to problems later. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update

I performed major cleanup on the article, removing much of the club sport and social club information. This article still needs major cleanup including more citations and references and fewer external links. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 13:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC)