A new survey has been created to assess consensus with respect to university naming conventions, specifically regarding the usage of terms like "University of Texas" vs. "University of Texas at Austin". The poll addresses this issue both in the specific case of the "University of Maryland" and proposes an amendment to Wikipedia:Naming conventions which could impact a large number of additional pages, including this one. Dragons flight 17:48, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
- Personally I prefer "University of ...at...." for readability. I have always found it awkward Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison. It all sounds so bureacracy sounding and cold. I can't speak to other schools, but in the 70s when the state system in Wisconsin went to this it was all to make all the other campuses in the system rise above being "state colleges" and have them rub elbows with the big guys reputation in Madison. This sorta was to give the state colleges some added cache and access to more academic funding from the state.
- Please don't accuse me of Madison elitism. I've always maintained that if you are not a genius that for the first two years of undergraduate work seriously consider a "state college" because they are more in the business of seeing the students succeed. I just have never believed that facultys with 35000 plus students care much more for the freshman and sophomore than getting their money.Kyle Andrew Brown 04:59, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
