Talk:The Catholic University of America

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The Catholic University of America was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: No date specified. To provide a date use: {{FailedGA|insert date in any format here}}

Bravo to those making recent changes to the article; I admit my changes were pretty minor and I wish I'd have had the time to make such a comprehensive article as now exists. Again, thank you for your efforts. --Sarcasticninja 03:51, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info box. Maybe we can make this as comprehensive as Georgetown's. --Jonathan.King 00:13, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

lol, oh my, i should start making corrections. --Evesummernight 04:13, 17 July 2005 (UTC)--evesummernight

Can someone put together a notable faculty list? People like Oleg Kalugin, former KGB spy

If a notable faculty list is ever made, don't forget Clyde Cowan!!--Optiksguy 01:14, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Academic Freedom 2 falling standards 3 alumni 4 board of trustees 5 GA nomination 6 Brookland 7 Bias 8 Speaker Policy 9 Controversies

[edit] Academic Freedom

I just made a few changes to this section to clarify some points that I feel made the section biased. First, the reason CUA excludes 'theologians' from the statement on Academic Freedom is that it is a Sacred Theology department, and one needs a license from the Vatican to teach theology there. The same is true for the school of Canon Law. Second, I specified that Rev. Curran lost his job because he lost his license to teach Catholic Theology.

[edit] falling standards

There should be something in here about the fact that the Business school lost its accreditation and the mass transfers as a result.

[edit] alumni

I've put together a much more comprehensive alumni page at List of notable CUA alumni. In addition, at the bottom of all their pages you will see a new category for CUA alumni. Every article that links to CUA and IDs the person as a CUA alum is included, so it was far too much to include on the CUA home article. Briancua 02:02, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] board of trustees

I've added the list of trustees and tried to link as many as I could. I had trouble finding info on some of them - if anyone can help that would be great. Briancua 17:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA nomination

Sorry, but with no references and being dominated by lists, I feel that this article doesn't meet the criteria. Once these issues are fixed, please feel free to renominate. Regards, --Celestianpower ^háblame 14:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I just happened upon this article today, and I've got to reiterate the concern about the excessive lists. Why not condense it down the the general schools? With all of the offerings dragged out in the encyclopedia article it's starting to look like a lot of the embarassing, for-profit college websites I patrol (DeVry, ITT, etc). --Bobak 23:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, i'm trying to get this article up to GA standards. I've moved the two huge lists (schools and academic programs) to it's own stub, which is linked from the Academics section of the CUA wikipedia article. I'm going to keep working on it to try an include more information and less of a PR piece for the university. -- CFM865 00:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brookland

It appears, according to the wiki article on Brookland, Washington, D.C. that CUA is not within the bound of Brookland because Brookland stops at 9th street, on the other side of the metro. --usertalk:stoopidemu 13 August 2006

[edit] Bias

Why does this article read as though it was written by admissions?

I do not understand what you mean. Few other univeristy webpages have their speaker policies and other criticisms discussed. Ericsean (talk) 15:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speaker Policy

I just added a section on it, as that's unfortunately what CUA is best known for these days, at least in the media. Psjalltheway 23:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

As a student at CUA when Del. Norton was uninvited it is my understanding that: 1) she was not invited by the University, but by the company running the bookstore; 2) the event was to be a book signing, not a lecture. Ericsean (talk) 15:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)ericsean

[edit] Controversies

Should the sections about academic freedom and the AAUP sanction be on a separate “controversies of CUA” stub? Ericsean (talk) 02:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)