Talk:University of Toledo

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The climactic paragraph is not really neutral enough (even if true!): Despite the challenges facing higher education in the 1990s, The University of Toledo marked its 125th year as an amazing success story. The institution grew from a small, private arts and trades school to become a large state-assisted university. Many of its faculty and academic programs have worldwide reputations, and its campus is an architectural gem. Someone might want to tone that down a bit. Chick Bowen 23:24, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I have heard that the physics department is the only one there with a widespread favorable reputation. Michael Hardy 19:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] copyrighted material removed

I've removed all of the material that was added by an anonymous editor, User:131.183.82.32, which was taken from the University of Toledo website and must be assumed to be under copyright. Chick Bowen 04:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

This article needs a lot of work. The recognition section is full of unsourced questionable material, is one long, jumbled and unreadable paragraph and looks as though it was cut and pasted directly from the university's website. I'm going to wait a week for some of the editors working on this page to clean it up; otherwise, I'll remove it.

Also the endowment figure has been grossly overstsated at 300 million. I've adjusted it to the 128 million that both the NACUBO report and the university's own foundation's annual report place it. --Sam Harmon 19:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advert-tone problems

The entire section titled "National recognition" has problems: since it amounts to a collection of PR/advertising claims by the university (and a thorough collection, at that), it requires equally thorough citation. I am not saying that the claims can't stand, but given the response to other articles, this section requires a detailed number of citation to current available data. I have not removed anything, rather placed tags where the citations should go. --Bobak 19:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)