Talk:Private university

message: I feel like this page has some bias against Bob Jones University —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.59.139 (talk • contribs)  (28 July 2005)
:It's a valid example of the greater latitude private univerities have. --Kerowyn 23:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: In which way is the following significant in defining what a private university is? 
:Private universities sometimes run condensed courses with shorter vacations allowing students to complete a three year degree in two years for example. This reduces living costs and allows students to start full time work sooner, but some would argue that it does so at the expense of the overall student experience.
It may well be true, but appears irrelevant. A public university could do that too, it has absolutely nothing to do with ownership, and appears to be based on some personal experience. Uppland 08:26, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a policy at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. The university was free to adopt that model when the tother universities in the UK were constrained because of funding regulations. Itsmejudith (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Condensed courses

message: I didn't cite sources for "graduates of some universities, though not necessarily overrepresented in Who's Who, were overrepresented in the Social Register," but this is verifiable and I do intend to cite sources when I get a bit more time. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who's who/Social register 

message: It's started in Vietnam, see  at Google Books. Lincher 19:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other places in the world 

message: The comment about some new university in India sounds like boasting.  Or, perhaps it is a joke...—Preceding unsigned comment added by Stumcgill (talk • contribs) 
:Yeah, I removed that, although I'm still unsure about that section.  Is Vedanta University the first private university in India or something, or is it simply one of many?  I suspect that it probably doesn't belong here at all... -Elmer Clark 08:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add relevant citations to the actual article itself. See Wikipedia:Citing sources. -Elmer Clark 10:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Ok, but for now a citation is still needed, hence the tag.  Feel free to remove it when you actually add a citation. -Elmer Clark 22:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I really don't see the need to put Australia in the introduction of this page - private universities are far from common in Australia, with only two in total compared to over a dozen public universities from the top of my head. Even the other private university that isn't listed, the University of Notre Dame in Australia, is partially supported by the Federal Government. -- Permafrost 11:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Further restored text deleted by Scotteaux. Discuss future edits here before making large deletions with little explanation, Scotteaux. -- Permafrost 09:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: *http://www.citybizlist.com/lstg/lstgDetail.aspx?id=8794
*http://chronicle.com/errors.dir/noauthorization.php3?page=/weekly/v52/i47/47a03401.htm
*http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/27/newIndianUniversityModeledAfterStanford
*http://chronicle.com/stats/big_gifts.htm
*http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/07/24/daily11.html
*http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6146.shtml
*http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/07/2006072006n.htm
SDas 05:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add relevant citations to the actual article itself. See Wikipedia:Citing sources. -Elmer Clark 10:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Ok, but for now a citation is still needed, hence the tag.  Feel free to remove it when you actually add a citation. -Elmer Clark 22:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply

message: Maybe user Scotteaux can explain, why he has deleted half of the text (all countries except UK, US, China and Australia) without comment?
I am going to restore the deleted text if no plausible reason is given.--Wikiwatchers 18:44, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I really don't see the need to put Australia in the introduction of this page - private universities are far from common in Australia, with only two in total compared to over a dozen public universities from the top of my head. Even the other private university that isn't listed, the University of Notre Dame in Australia, is partially supported by the Federal Government. -- Permafrost 11:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Further restored text deleted by Scotteaux. Discuss future edits here before making large deletions with little explanation, Scotteaux. -- Permafrost 09:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of all countries except AUS, China, UK and US??? 

message: I have addded Private University System in Bangladesh at this article. It would be really nice if other Wikipedians from Bangladesh make necessary updates with appropriate references at this section of this article. Niaz bd 04:33, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bangladesh

message: This article is inconsistent in a number of ways but I shall raise a few points.
Some countries have been included and some lefft.
There seems to be no standard to universities on this list. For example Griffith College Dublin is on the list but Regents College which is in London and also a HE college is not the list for the UK. 
I would be grateful if we tried to have a consistent article. I look forward to people's views. --Abdulha (talk) 20:53, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent

message: The article states that:  'Private universities are common in [list of countries]'.  I'm suspicious about this since the list includes Ireland, where no private institution has university status, and there are only small number of private colleges (one of which we don't even seem to have an article for, given the redlink).  Is the claim as shaky for the other countries?  Can this be cited, or else reworked?  Alai (talk) 03:39, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common? 

message: I'm removing this
:Private universities are not limited by the restrictions on government action in the same way that public universities are, and can teach views unpopular with the Government. 
in its present form, as unattributed and uncited. It gives the impression that the government controls the content taught at public universities, which is far from true. At best it exerts a weak degree of influence (just as it does over the content taught at private universities). 
I find it hard to square that statement with the careers of e.g. Angela Davis or Herbert Marcuse.
It should be replaced by a quotation from some reliable source detailing the comparative degree of academic freedom that is actually enjoyed by professors at public and private universities. I did my undergraduate work at a private university and my graduate work at a public university and believe the differences to have been subtle, if there were differences at all. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Public universities in the U.S. can't "teach views unpopular with the Government?"

message: I was looking at the list and I am wondering why they are listed? They are not universities but university sector colleges. The UK has a lot of private university sector colleges. Shouldn't they be included? --Abdulha (talk) 16:52, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ireland 

message: This section needs cleanup for broken and incoherent sentences. The last paragraph sounds more like a brochure. A detailed list of programs and departments is out of the scope of this article. So I am removing them. --Sabih Omar 11:48, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: India

message: The content list is growing and will soon have 200 lines. I suggest to group the countries to continents to have a short content list. Any better ideas?--Wikiwatchers (talk) 21:05, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content list 

message: I removed the incomplete list of private universities in Bangladesh section and added link to another maintained list. The rationale is, it is hard to maintain same list in many places. – nafSadh did say 11:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good plan. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 20:28, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bangladesh 

message: Apparently the Vietnamese government makes a distinction between "tư thục" and "dân lập" private universities. Would anybody care to explain the difference? It's apparently a big thing over here, as, for example, Duy Tân University had trouble during its foundation as the founders wanted it to be dân lập and the government forced them to make it tư thục. MuDavid (talk) 02:39, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two types of private university in Vietnam 

message: The Turkey section doesn't make much sense. Can someone clarify what it's trying to say? Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 05:13, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkey 

message: It has very little about the universities' methods and such themselves and appears to just be a list. Clarification might be helpful. As I can't change the title, could someone else please do so? 71.112.180.130 (talk) 16:34, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The entries that were just lists have recently been removed. The better current entries do generally discuss what constitutes a private university in that country and what the rules are surrounding private universities (and, often, other degree-awarding private institutions). Robminchin (talk) 16:39, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could the title be changed to "List of private universities" or something like that?