Talk:Troy University/Archive 1

Archive 1

Name

Troy University is also the name of a now defunct Methodist college founded in 1858 at Troy, New York. It failed to survive the Civil War and closed after only three years of its founding. The university building was sold St. Mary's Church of Albany in 1863. It served as home of St. Joseph's Seminary until the 1890's. The property was later sold to the Sisters of St. Joseph purchased in 1908 who established a Provincial House and Novitiate there in 1912. The property was purchased by Rensselaer in 1958. The building was razed in 1969 and the Folsom Library was constructed on the site in 1976. Besselfunctions 15:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Name change

The name change is immediate, but the university is in transition on all materials. From an article[1] on the change:

Chancellor Hawkins said the new name will go into immediate use, but there won't be a wholesale transition on the campuses. "We will begin immediately using the new name when and where we can in order to make a smooth transition over the next year," he said. "But we will not make wholesale changes to items that carry the current name until it is time to replace or reorder."

Autiger 21:47, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Campuses

Could someone add a list of the numerous campus sites that Troy has? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.1.35.183 (talk) 20:40, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Links

I suggest removing the link to the Dothan Campus; the main campus website has links to the extended campuses prominently displayed. Also, it's more consistent with Troy's new identity as one unified school with multiple physical campuses. Otherwise, the other separate campuses should be added. --DesScorp 02:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, there is this article that might be helpful as a link. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1267 -- Thanks, Justin --Duboiju (talk) 17:15, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Spam in the Rankings section

There is a gif that is advertising a political message in the rankings section that wants to redirect the viewer to a non existent list of US senator's page. I have looked to remove this spam, but cannot locate it in the edit page.

EDIT: here is the image link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Cache_me_if_you_can.gif

Mwilkinson09 (talk) 23:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. I needed to purge the page and force a template to reload; that got a clean version without the image vandalism. —C.Fred (talk) 23:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed merger of Troy University campuses

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was No consensus . Aloneinthewild (talk) 12:55, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

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There are four campuses for Troy University (Troy, Montgomery, Dothan, and Phenix City), all of which should be listed in their own section within the main article instead of being separate as they all fall under the same accreditation and institution. — Mr Xaero ^☎️ 04:39, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

• Meh. We typically give satellites their own articles. Drmies (talk) 01:19, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
• I agree with OP. It makes sense to consolidate all satellite campus information onto the main page for Troy University. Danacreative (talk) 16:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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Detailed information about student organizations and transportation

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