Talk:University of North Carolina

message: The sports conference affiliation has been added to the institution list.  My gut tells me that it should not be there.  What does everybody else think?--Thunder 13:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sports Conference

message: Flagship is a commonly used term to describe the "namesake" university in a system.  Or the "lead" radio station in a broadcast network (even if it isn't the most prestigious (like WCHL was the flagship of the Tar Heel Sports Network (before that was sold) even though you can only get WCHL in CH).  Or the "flag"  (UTC)ship in an armada is where the admiral is (ie, Bowles's office is in Chapel Hill).  It isn't a judgemental term, it is descriptive. -Jcbarr 15:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flagship 

message: I plan to rewrite the intro so NO individual university is cited.  The intro isn’t the place for every single campus to be highlighted.  It seems if one is highlighted, people want them all there.  So no feelings get hurt, I plan to expand the constitute institution section so to include the Carnegie classification, Carnegie admissions category (eg. Selective, more selective), student population, percent of student population with a SAT over 1100, percent of student population in the top 20% of their class.  We will let the numbers stand on their own without our own judgment getting in the way. --Thunder 19:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken....So what does people people think of my idea?--Thunder 21:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  intro 

message: The following sentence is quite clearly NPOV 
"The system provides quality education at some of the lowest tuition rates in the United States despite recent tuition increases.[1]"
You can say that it has some of the lowest tuition rates if there are sources but how do you define 'quality education'?
You make a very good point.  I will update it with some references--Thunder 00:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Universitas Carolinae Septentrionalis is correct.  An alternative could be Universitas Carol. Septent. denoting the abbreviated form of North Carolina, I suppose. Remember the seal says "Seal of the University of North Carolina", and sadly in Latin it isn't as simple as just removing a word.  If there is a large amount of debate I would just remove any Latin rather than have an edit war.  Alternatively, write the one of the UNC system's classics departments or check this book (or similar ones) on Latin grammar.
Several University catalogs written in Latin from the 1800s (including Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Bowdoin, and UNC's own in 1852) refer to the school with the abbreviation "Univ. Car. Bor." or "Carol. Bor." for Universitas Carolinae Borealis. Borealis is a synonym for Septentrionalis, though Borealis appears to be used more frequently in these catalogs. Lpburrows (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin

message: I'm tied up the UNC featured article review at the moment, so I don't really have time to work on this myself, but I've noticed the section seems to imply the name changes of UNC and UNCG occurred in the 1931s, when it was actually in something like 1963 as a result of coeducation.  If anyone has a chance to doublecheck and rephrase it would be very helpful! Hippo (talk) 18:29, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History section

message: "Name of the University
The first reference in any webpage should be to "Appalachian State University." After that, "Appalachian" or the "University" may be used. References such as "ASU," "App State," and "Appy State" are prohibited."
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.168.114 (talk) 14:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's an interesting reference, but a quick search of the Appalachian State University website shows many places where "ASU" and "App State" are used as abbreviations. And the official website of the university is www.AppState.edu. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Appalachian's abbreviation

message: I don't understand how one can claim UNC-Chapel Hill is the oldest public university in the U.S. when College of William & Mary which lists its founding date in the 1600s (before UNC) is also a public university and therefore I would think is older! In fact, College of William and Mary is the 2nd oldest university in the U.S. after Harvard.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.24.167 (talk) 20:14, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See the article Oldest public university in the United States.  The College of William and Mary is certainly older that the University of North Carolina, but was run as a private institution up until 1888 when it was opened under a different charter (therefore being the same institution in place and name only) and not fully public until 1906.  UNC was chartered as a public university and has been run as one since the original state charter in 1789, Digitalican (talk) 11:31, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest U.S. public university? 

message: Looking for information on the recent sexual assault case, I skimmed the article and couldn't find anything about UNC's reputation, academic or otherwise. Could we consider keeping and expanding the Reputation section I added (sorry for the revert, by the way)? Alternatively, could we distribute more reputation-related information in the opening paragraph and History section?
As for the sexual assault case, I think some mention of it should stay. It's been in the news for a while now. 96.255.155.224 (talk) 16:37, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reputation 

message: Wanted to point out that the majority of the "structure" section is a direct copy-paste from this page on UNC's website: http://www.northcarolina.edu/?q=about-our-system/220-years-history
Am not clear on how to mark this page for revision directly but thought I would post this here. 152.4.40.158 (talk) 14:18, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I just deleted the material; although important, it's not critical information so someone else with more time and interest can rewrite the material and add it back in if they're interested. ElKevbo (talk) 14:29, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-paste of UNC website 

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