Talk:Polytechnic University of New York
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The page was protected to prevent vandal from adding the image hello.jpg to the article. Hello.jpg was used on the website Goat.cx, showing a man doing something very nasty and un-natural. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:36, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Given the childish vandalism this page has been receiving, I have to wonder at just how low the standards are for getting into this University. func(talk) 03:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The last one was quite funny, though. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 03:37, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
- As a former student, I can tell you it's quite low. -- DarKrow
- I am also a B.S. Computer Scinece "product" of Polytechnic University -- Grerory Kats class of 2001
The listing of Gertrude Elion as an alumna mentions only her honorary degree - which is really not enough to make someone an alum - and overlooks the fact that she spent a few years as a part-time Ph.D. candidate. (Her bachelor's and master's degrees came from Hunter College and NYU, respectively.) She never completed her doctorate because the Polytechnic insisted she become a full-timer, which she could not afford to do. I have no ties to Poly, but I think it can reasonably claim her as an alum. The article should say she was a Poly student instead of just listing the honorary degree.
The info box says Poly has 470 faculty, but the article explains that this figure includes both full-timers and adjuncts. The info boxes for other colleges and universities generally quote a figure for full-timers only. Counting both creates the illusion that Poly has an exceptionally low student:faculty ratio. I suggest listing the numbers of full-tmers and of adjuncts separately. I would do this myself but I don't know what the numbers are.
