Talk:State university system

message: See Talk:University of Wisconsin for the origins of this article! The system is really confusing for those of us who know little of the US system other than The Absent-Minded Professor.
The US experience of naming conflicts following mergers is not universal worldwide. My alma mater has absorbed several smaller institutions in a similar fashion, and their sporting teams and histories have been assumed by the larger institution with relatively little fuss, and even a certain amount of pride. That's not to say there's been no conflict, just that it has been concentrated in other areas.
But then the US universites appear to take their campus identities to extremes, especially when the boys put on those plastic suits of armour... Andrewa 20:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I'd like to have added  to this page, but it doesn't really fit :Category:United States university stubs. Andrewa 20:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub categories

message: I propose to move this article to State university system (United States), to remove the part of the hatnote that says "For nation-state governmental unversity systems, see National University System", and to remove the globalize tag. The purpose of this proposal is to avoid systemic bias. Other countries, for example India, have state universities, and there are articles and redirects with titles like State university (countryname). It would be excellent if this article could conform to that pattern. --Stfg (talk) 09:57, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Support for purposes of disambiguation.  --JBL (talk) 15:29, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

text: Sounds reasonable. ElKevbo (talk) 23:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Done. --Stfg (talk) 12:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move to State university system (United States) 

message: The intro says that "State college" redirects here, but if you type that into the Search box, you are taken to State College, Pennsylvania. JmA (talk) 15:50, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, it was changed in this edit by an IP user back in March.  I'm inclined to think that the IP user is right about the more likely target, and will remove the note in a moment.  --JBL (talk) 22:00, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirection

message: That move was highly disruptive as the article title had been State university system since 2013, after a carefully discussed and well-considered move from State university system (United States). I cannot find any references in a quick search on Google or Google Books for User:BeenAroundAWhile's assertion that the phrase "state university system" is also used in reference to state universities in India. (As a young man, I actually studied the history of universities in connection with my studies in the history of science at one of the top research universities in the world, and I have been familiarizing myself again with the literature over the past year as part of my efforts to improve the articles on the University of California and its campuses.) In any event, the burden rests upon the editor (i.e., User:BeenAroundAWhile) who is disrupting a long-established consensus to provide support for their position in the form of reliable sources and to formally propose a move and solicit other editors' input first.  I always do. --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just reverted [[User:BeenAroundAWhile]]'s move of the article title on 8 November 2020 

message: Capital S Capital U, State University? I came to his article to learn about something I've noticed, but the article "buries" this, or "doesn't notice it", and so I'm still curious. In the United States there is a noticeable pattern where many states, for example Michigan, have a University of Michigan and a Michigan State University. Off the very top of my head (mostly because of college athletics), this true for Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Idaho, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa and many more. It is curiously not "as" true of the New England states, and the nearby northeast states of New York and NJ (I said "as" true because there is UConn and there is CT State University, but nobody ever heard of the latter, but that may simply be because of athletics which wouldn't be the "true" measure of a university; perhaps the others have similar) In my mind, in most cases the "University of" has higher/loftier academic aspirations (perhaps more PhD graduates who go into academia), and the "State University" is a bit more "middle class", more graduates going into industry, but I'm not entirely certain of that; I only mention it because perhaps there's been a historical funding/founding pattern? or just imitation? Anyway, if there is a reason, I feel like it should be in this article. (the "state university" disambiguation page does not address it) 2603:8001:D3F0:87E0:0:0:0:10D0 (talk) 23:34, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA: "University of ___" vs "___ State University"