Talk:University Innovation Fellows Program

Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because I believe it is an accurate account of the program (though I concede the "Selection" section could appear promotional and will be deleted - sincere apologies for that).

I apologize if the article came across as promotional, but from what I could find online, all sources appeared to be unanimously positive. I will go back through the article to remove any language that appears promotional. Again as mentioned above, I will delete the "Selection" section (which discusses what appeared to be the regular profile of applicants from what I could tell from news sources celebrating student acceptance to the program/the UIF website). I will also delete those details from the introductory section.

The fact it was highlighted by the White House for its work developing innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States (and globally) upon the proclamation of November as National Entrepreneurship Month, as well as the extent of its influence (apparently ~2,000 people spread across numerous countries) would suggest it is a noteworthy program. Additionally, I found that a book was published by two social scientists (with H-indices over 40), Etienne Wenger-Trayner (he has been cited in literature over 170,000 times) and Beverly Wenger-Trayner (cited 4K times), about the UIF program (Google Scholar links: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2A5Nzk4AAAAJ&hl=en ; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zf0ZV-UAAAAJ&hl=en ). The book is titled, "Designing for Change: Using social learning to understand organizational transformation," as a case study of social learning theory and the UIF program specifically as the program central to the book.

Hope it's enough for it to be kept, but obviously would defer to page reviewers/admins' decision. If specific changes could be suggested, rather than just deleting completely and having to start again from scratch, I think that could be more constructive (for feedback) and efficient, as I would be very happy to amend anything :)

Thanks very much for considering

EMT STL (talk) 16:51, 26 June 2019 (UTC)