Talk:Arizona State University

Mention Of Terry A. Davis

His tragic life. MissionFromGod (talk) 20:35, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

He is already included in List of Arizona State University alumni. ElKevbo (talk) 22:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Edit requests for September 2024

I’m an employee of ASU, and have a few requests to help update the article. I consulted with User:BruceMyBoy1212 at WhiteHatWiki, a paid consulting company, for guidance. Since I have a conflict of interest as an employee who falls under WP:PAID, I’m listing the suggested changes below for a volunteer Wikipedia editor to review and implement. Thank you.

1. In the STUDENT section of the infobox, please update the student enrollment numbers to the following:

| students = 57,144, Tempe
10,608, Downtown Phoenix
6,036, Polytechnic
4,904, West
62,062, Digital Immersion | undergrad = 114,484 | postgrad = 31,171 | faculty = 5,300

Why: The current numbers are outdated; the numbers I’ve provided are as of August 2024.

2. In the infobox, please update the OTHER CAMPUSES to the following:

| free_label1 = Other campuses

| free1 =

• Lake Havasu City
• Mesa
• Yuma
• Tucson
• Los Angeles, California
• Washington, D.C.
• Hawaii

Why: Updates to current campuses. Removes Glendale, Scottsdale, Show Low, and Shanghai campuses and adds Hawaii.

3. I have an update for the last paragraph of the article’s lead that begins “As of January 2022, ASU reported that its faculty of more than 5,000 scholars”. Please request that paragraph with the following:

As of February 2024, ASU reported that its faculty of more than 5,000 scholars included 5 Nobel laureates, 11 MacArthur Fellows, 10 Pulitzer Prize winners, 11 National Academy of Engineering members, 26 National Academy of Sciences members, 28 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, 41 Guggenheim fellows, 163 National Endowment for the Humanities fellows, and 289 Fulbright Program American Scholars.

Why: The numbers currently are from 2022, so I updated the paragraph to reflect updated numbers as of August 2024.

4. In the CAMPUSES AND LOCATIONS section, please replace the first sentence of the first paragraph, which begins “Academic programs are spread across four distinct campuses…” with the following:

ASU has four campuses and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona, and campuses located in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Hawaii.

Why: I’ve updated the sentence to include all of ASU’s campuses in Arizona and the United States, rewrote the sentence to be more neutral in tone and added secondary sources.

Thank you for taking the time to review these requests. Parker480 (talk) 21:34, 20 September 2024 (UTC) Parker480 (talk) 21:34, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the very clear request with properly formatted citations! ElKevbo (talk) 17:11, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

References

Requested move 22 December 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved per WP:SNOW, considered in the context of the 100+ RMs proposed at once by this user. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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Arizona State University → Arizona State – WP:COMMONNAME. Theparties (talk) 13:49, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. The full name provides a WP:TITLECON consistent naming convention across all articles on universities and colleges in the United States. Many reliable sources like Forbes and US News and World Report still use the full name. The OP has also made numerous individual RMs on this same issue like this one, which may violate WP:ACROTITLE or use a shorter common name that is rarely used outside a sports/athletic context. Better to stick to the status quo. Zzyzx11 (talk) 14:52, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose as unnecessary, unwise, and confusing for readers. ElKevbo (talk) 15:01, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose, per the comments of Zzyzx11. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 16:20, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:TITLEFORMAT#Avoid ambiguous abbreviations, WP:ACROTITLE, and what Zzyzx11 said. I see no reason why we need to make the title more ambiguous, since the proposed title is literally also the name of a state. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Edit requests for February 2025

I’m an employee of ASU, and have a few requests to help update the article. I consulted with User:Brucemyboy1212 at WhiteHatWiki, a consulting company, for guidance. Since I have a conflict of interest as an employee, I’m listing the suggested changes below for a volunteer Wikipedia editor to review. Thank you.

1. In the BUDGET section of the infobox, please update the information to the following:

| budget = $7.9 billion (2025)

Why: The current numbers are outdated; the numbers I’ve provided are as of January 2025.

2. In the infobox, please update the FACULTY and TOTAL STAFF to the following:

| faculty = 5,400 | total_staff = More than 18,500

Why: Updates the number of faculty from 5,300 to 5,400, according to the source. I also updated the estimated staff from “about” to “more than”, and updated the citation access date.

3. I have an update for the article’s lead regarding the enrollment numbers. Can an editor please update the 2nd sentence in the 2nd paragraph of the lead from:

ASU has nearly 145,000 students attending classes, with more than 62,000 students attending online, and 112,000 undergraduates and nearly 30,000 postgraduates across its five campuses and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

TO:

ASU has over 183,000 students attending classes, with more than 74,000 students attending online, and 142,000 undergraduates and over 41,000 postgraduates across its four campuses and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

Why: The enrollment numbers are outdated, reflecting information from 2018. ASU also has only four campuses, not five.I updated the paragraph to reflect the most recent numbers, with supporting citations, as of January 2025.

4. In the article lead, can an editor please update it from:

ASU offers 350 degree options from its 17 colleges and more than 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes for undergraduates students, as well as more than 400 graduate degree and certificate programs.

TO:

ASU offers more than 400 undergraduate degrees from its 16 colleges and over 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes for students. It also offers more than 450 graduate degrees and certificate programs.

Why: I’ve updated the number of majors, and graduate degrees and certificates, and slightly rewrote the sentence for concision and to reflect the sourcing provided.

5. In the “Organization and Administration (ASU school/college founding)” section, can you please update the names of the following schools from this:

| Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College ||

1954

| College of Nursing and Health Innovation ||

1957

To this:

| Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation ||

1954

| Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation ||

1957

Why: The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College name was changed to Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning in January 2025.[1] The College of Nursing and Health Innovation’s name was changed to “Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation” in 2019.[2]

Thank you for taking the time to review these requests. Parker480 (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2025 (UTC) Parker480 (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the helpful and clear formatting and the cogent explanations. ElKevbo (talk) 00:00, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

References

Edit requests March 2025

Hi! I'm Melted Brie, a contributor independent of the above working on ASU's Wikipedia presence. The edit request here reflects additional comments made in this process.

• Change |free_label1= to "Other campuses and centers". Reason: ASU nomenclature considers only four campuses, the ones in metropolitan Phoenix, but ASU has presences in a substantial amount of other places that are not campuses. Given the large number of places, it would be best to restructure the accompanying content to list the four campuses first (Tempe, Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic, West Valley) followed by the various cities where ASU has a presence, facilities, or ASU Local.
  • Important note: Lake Havasu City is closing this June.
  • Note West Valley, not West. I opened a requested move to align the article title.
• Add a footnote in the Campus field of the infobox to clarify that the designation of "midsize city" applies only to Tempe: Data for the Tempe campus. Other ASU campuses are all in large cities (Phoenix, Mesa).
• In the Campuses and locations level-2 header, change In addition to the physical campuses, ASU's "virtual campus" at the university's SkySong Innovation Center, provides online and extended education. to In addition to in-person classes, ASU Online provides online and extended education. The phrasing "virtual campus" is unusual and not in line with current ASU standards, and SkySong is not a campus. See below.
• In the ASU Online level-3 header, remove mention of SkySong as a campus and retarget link to Los Arcos Mall#SkySong, which is the current location of information about this facility on the encyclopedia. Again, SkySong is not a campus.
• Reinforce what is and isn't a campus by adjusting the section hierarchy in Campuses and locations:
  • Campuses and locations
    • Tempe campus
    • Downtown Phoenix campus
    • Polytechnic campus
    • West Valley campus
    • ASU Online
    • Other centers
      • ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City
      • Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, in collaboration with ASU
      • ASU in California
      • Barrett & O'Connor Washington Center (note change in title)
• Remove the Thunderbird campus level-3 header, as ASU no longer owns the historic Thunderbird campus and Thunderbird is now on the Downtown Phoenix campus. The physical plant was traded to Arizona Christian University. Information on that campus would be due in the Thunderbird article.
• Further updates to the table of colleges and schools in Organization and administration:
  • Consider alphabetizing again to reflect some renames.
  • Add the Graduate College (est. 1958). This will ensure that all the top-level ASU academic units as listed at [3] are listed here.
  • Two new top-level academic units are scheduled to come online in the next few years: the School of Technology for Public Health (2025) and the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering (2026). These should not be listed until added to the above page.
• In Traditions, rephrase "Whitewashing" of the "A" is a tradition in which incoming freshmen paint the letter white during orientation week and is repainted gold before the first football game of the season. to Incoming freshmen paint the "A" white during orientation week; it is repainted gold before the first football game of the season. This accommodates a change in terminology from the university that occurred in 2019.

If you have questions, let me know. This is anticipated to be the first in a series of edits and improvements to this article with these overall goals and, ideally, a pursuit of possible Good Article status:

• Bring the ASU article up to date with new metrics
  • The previous set of edit requests included a lot of areas previously identified, many of which tend to need annual updating — enrollment, budget, etc.
• Repair, as far as is possible, discrepancies between university nomenclature and article terminology
  • Many of the requested edits in this batch are for this purpose.
• Update photos
  • This requires some work within ASU to approve photos for Creative Commons licensing.
• Excise undue-weight promotional trivia and facts in several subsections
• Continue to meet Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Melted Brie (talk) 22:23, 6 March 2025 (UTC)