Talk:Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
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I was wondering if anyone had an opinion regarding the infobox that I had added on March 16th? User:Pzavon had deleted it, saying that an infobox only belongs on the main university page. I thought that since each school could have a different founding date, a different provost, a different dean, different student population, different undergrad population, different grad population, different tuition, different logo, and different tuition, that this merited a different infobox. I also don't believe that things like school mascot, color, fight song, etc. be included in the infobox. The point was to show the things that were different from the infobox on the main page. I am afraid that Pzavon deleted it without noticing that it was not a direct cut and paste from the Boston University page, but rather, had many different facts specific to this school. If a consensus is met with Pzavon's decision, then I will leave the infobox off of the article. Cmcnicoll 05:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I think the current format is fine. the differnet founding dates and deans are more trivia than general knowledge (i was in CAS and GRS for a total of 6 years without knowing who my dean is, but i can tell you who my professors are). But i do have a suggestion: Merge CAS and GRS together. We share departments and the faculty anyway, there is no point of haing 2 articles.--Bud 06:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
While GRS is now a part of CAS and an argument could thus be made for combining the two articles, it is worth noting that was not the case for most of the history of BU. GRS was founded before CLA/CAS by several years and for more than a century was a separate "department" of the university, on a par with CLA, STH, LAw and the rest. With exceptions for professional schools such as MED, LAW and STH (previously called THEO, all graduate gegrees conferred by BU were done through GRS. Faculty held dual appointments, in their own school andin GRS for graduate teaching, and, before the 1950s received extra pay for that. Pzavon 23:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
