Talk:List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts

message: Art Institute of Boston is now part of Lesley University.  
The NEASC web site lists a few schools not on this list: Longy School of Music, Southern New England School of Law, and MGH Institute of Health Professions.   Chonak (talk) 19:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, thanks for catching that about the AIB. I totally missed that somehow.... do you know anything about Longy et al.? I think I've heard about Longy but not the others. Thanks for that, too! Keep up that good work. --Aepoutre (talk) 21:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Southern NE School of Law is not far from the U Mass Dartmouth campus.  At one point, some state rep proposed buying it and making it U Mass School of Law.   MGH is connected with Mass General Hospital: I assume it's a school of nursing, medical technology, etc.  Chonak (talk) 22:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  One merger, some additions 

message: I notice that there is a Category for "Defunct universities and colleges in Massachusetts".   Can we add a link to that page?   I think that would be better than including defunct institutions here (e.g., Bradford).   Chonak (talk) 23:06, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's a category, but that might work. Go for it. Funny, I just added Radcliffe to the Boston list, haha. --Aepoutre (talk) 00:49, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  defunct institutions? 

message: The classifications of institutions are not stable yet; just the other day I changed Harvard from "Masters college" (plainly wrong, IMHO) to "Research university" and corrected a few other entries.   I recommend a close review of the details of the page to ensure its quality.  Chonak (talk) 02:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. There are some patent issues with this. One egregious one seems to be WP:OR -- things like "Although there are many schools currently operating, 66 other schools have closed or merged with other schools in the state." There's no source for this; that information is garnered from a poorly compiled list of closed schools. I call it poorly compiled because there are clearly institutions here that have neither "closed" nor "merged" but simply changed their names: Cambridge Junior College is almost certainly Cambridge College, Chamberlayne Junior College is Mount Ida College, Jackson College for Women has always been part of Tufts University, &c. This needs some major re-working and isn't ready for Featured status. I'm surprised the nominator bypassed Good and A entirely and shot for Featured at all. I'll get working on some cleanup, but I won't have time until tomorrow at the earliest. --Aepoutre (talk) 04:10, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not stable enough yet to be a featured list 

message: Maybe it's just me, but most of these "type" classifications seem bogus. Dean is listed as "baccalaureate" even though most of its students earn an associate's degree. Lasell is listed as a "master's college" even though it only offers two master's degrees. Suffolk is listed as a "special-focus institution". None of these sound right to me. The original list didn't include "type", so it must be the work of the editor who made the sortable list. The list uses ref with a U.S. Government site as a source, and there's a column to the far right called "ref" that looks like it's just a link to each school's website. So, while my first instinct was that none of it "sounds right", I also checked the Government website and some institutional sites and confirmed IMHO that the information here doesn't seem to match up properly. And I certainly don't think the column to the far right with links to institutional websites qualifies as a "ref" column. Feel free to weigh in, fellow editors. I'd like to hear others' thoughts. King of the Arverni (talk) 15:34, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, this list does look fishy.  If we're going to go with classifications, we should stick with Carnegie (with proper references for each instance).  And you're right about the "ref" column being unnecessary and a list of (inappropriate, IMHO) external links in disguise.  --ElKevbo (talk) 15:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Carnegie seems to make the most sense to me, too. I won't be able to do any of this until tomorrow at the earliest, but I'll keep it in the back of my mind. That said, if anyone else has some time to kill then that editor is welcome to it. King of the Arverni (talk) 20:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

text: The "ref" columns are removed. Not sure how we usually express the Carnegie classifications on Wikipedia ("Bal/SGC" vs. "Balanced Arts & Sciences and Professions with Some Graduate Coexistence" &c.). Any good examples of precedent-setting uses? King of the Arverni (talk) 03:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just stick with the Basic Classification; it's the most broad and familiar of the classifications.  --ElKevbo (talk) 05:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. It was stupid of me even to ask. Thanks! King of the Arverni (talk) 05:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The foundation's 2005 move to introduce a multiplicity of classifications obviously introduced a significant amount of complexity so your question was not stupid at all.  --ElKevbo (talk) 05:20, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be all set with Carnegie control and classification information now. King of the Arverni (talk) 21:45, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

text: The opening paragraph states that Massachusetts has four research universities.  Surely the right number is much higher.--108.36.159.94 (talk) 12:51, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in classification 

message: Should SNESL be moved to the "closed institutions" list or retained as University of Massachusetts School of Law?  My understanding is that it is part of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. --Chonak (talk) 02:10, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern New England School of Law 

message: The opening text to this article says that Clark is a Jewish institution. Can anyone confirm that?  --Bistropha (talk) 05:48, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't seem to find anything right now at a cursory glance, but when my mother went there in the 1970s and 80s, they observed Jewish holidays instead of Christian ones. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:28, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clark University: any religious affiliation? 

message: It's a duplicate of the article and does not really belong separate. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 07:09, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[List of defunct colleges and universities in Massachusetts]] 

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