Talk:Indiana University
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[edit] Technically independent of IUPUI
This needs to have a supporting reference: how the schools of law and medicine and dentistry nowadays have some sort of charter or corporate separation that other schools at IUPUI do not have. In other words, "technically independent" needs to be fully defined.
- As can be seen from their history, the schools of law, medicine, and dentistry separately originated as private institutions that were later acquired, but then again the school of art also originated the same way at IUPUI. I suspect that this claim of true charter or incorporation independence has no basis in fact in modern IUPUI, especially if independence in these cases approaches anything resembling its normal usage, such as University of Southern Indiana was made independent of Indiana State University in 1985. I suspect that the administrative executives in the schools of law, medicine, and dentistry have a dual reporting relationship to both IUPUI and Bloomington that is exactly the same as the administrative executives in the Herron School of Art at IUPUI or the Jacob School of Music at IUPUI.
- Conversely, I suspect that (as opposed to IPFW) all of the schools at IUPUI are to some (trivial) degree technically separate from each other and that IUPUI is more of a container of more-loosely affiliated institutions than, for example, IPFW is or more generally any typical university is. —Optikos 14:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Official campus names
The official name of the campus in Bloomington is still "Indiana University" (and has been since 1838). The IU Style Guide dictates that "Indiana University Bloomington" is not an official campus name but may be used for clarity. Since this article says "in Bloomington, Indiana" and "often referred to as 'Indiana University Bloomington', no such clarity is needed. -- Merope 14:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
