Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher education/Outreach

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Higher education pages by quality Quality Total FA 43 FL 54 FM 17 A 1 GA 221 B 1,052 C 3,746 Start 16,578 Stub 15,768 List 1,642 Category 27,300 Disambig 130 File 5,289 Project 48 Template 1,940 NA 1,878 Assessed 75,707 Unassessed 2,134 Total 77,841 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 196,081 Ω = 5.24
Things To Do
Work on articles that need cleanup. Create a page for every university and college and add {{infobox University}} for it. See the missing list for those institutions still awaiting articles. Place {{WikiProject Higher education}} on every related talk page. Combat boosterism wherever it appears Ensure all articles, including Featured articles, are consistent with the article guidelines.

The outreach department of WikiProject Universities is a centralized work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The new programs currently underway are a monthly project newsletter and a welcoming message for new members of the project; further ideas are always welcome, of course!

Newsletter

This newsletter was created in October 2007 and is based on the WikiProject Military History newsletter. Each issue will be published at the beginning of every month summarizing the happenings in the past month. For example, the September issue will be published at the beginning of October and will contain a summary of September's activity in the WikiProject. Feel free to help with the process!

Current issue

The WikiProject Universities Newsletter Issue VIII (April 2008)
Project news After years of work, there are no longer any unassessed university articles!! Try to keep it this way by always assessing an article when you add the {{WikiProject Universities}} template. New university-related WikiProjects have been created: WikiProject Brigham Young University & WikiProject University of Pittsburgh. The bot that normally updates our new cleanup lists is currently down.		Articles of note New Featured articles: None — Make an article featured! New Featured lists: Colleges of the University of Cambridge List of universities in Bangladesh New Good articles: None — Nominate an article for GA!
Current proposals and discussions A number of discussions are taking place on the project talk page. Come and participate! A growing number of students' union articles are being nominated for deletion and the discussions are being listed on our deletion page. A new discussion on the notability of separate articles for faculties/academic colleges.
Awards and honors Wrad was awarded the University Barnstar for creating WikiProject BYU. Keep up the great work! Mlaffs was awarded the University Barnstar for being the first person in almost two years to completely update the Missing Colleges and Universities encyclopedia list. Thank you, thank you! ElKevbo was awarded the University Barnstar for significantly improving several university-related articles. Thanks!
The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are: Editor Nominated Topic East Carolina University B-Class Improvement Drive Mills College Start/Stub Improvement Drive Jamia Millia Islamia Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTF is organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.) This WP:UNI/COTF is effective: Apr 18 2008 ~ May 01 2008.		To do list Continue upkeep of University Portal Work on articles that need cleanup. A randomized short list is here Create a page for each and every university and college and add {{infobox University}} for it. See the missing list for those institutions still awaiting articles. Place {{WikiProject Universities}} on every related talk page. Ensure Featured articles are consistent with the article guidelines.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate section here.

Archives

• I (September 2007)
• II (October 2007)
• III (November 2007)
• IV (December 2007)
• V (January 2008)
• VI (February 2008)
• VII (March 2008)

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If you are not a member of the project but would like a copy of the newsletter, for whatever reason, you may add you name here as well.

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Welcoming new members

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Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Universities! Our goals are to standardize the structure and content of all college and university articles, improve Wikipedia's coverage of these articles (hopefully propelling them to featured article status), and serve as the central resource for all discussions and information related to colleges and universities on Wikipedia.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• The university infobox is one way we hope to standardize our coverage of university articles. All university pages should have this infobox, and relevant fields should be filled in and sourced.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has a few expanding departments, which handle article quality assessment, member recruitment and project awareness and article improvement collaborations.
• We have a Student Affairs task force that focuses on Student affairs-specific articles.
• We've developed a variety of guidelines for article structure and content, template use, categorization, and other issues that you may find useful.
• Check out our to do list to get started!

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask one of the project participants or post a question on the talk page. We'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!

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Our ad is now in the Wikipedia Ads circulation. Help promote WikiProject Universities by displaying this image on your userpage, or to place Wikipedia Ads to your user page, you may add {{Wikipedia ads}}.

• Display only certain ads: Here's the script to only display certain ads (so you can have people see our Universities ad more often (or just only display this ad only). Note: WikiProject:Universities Ad is #106.

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