Talk:Style guide for alumni pages

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  • Not all B-school grads are MBA recipients. Or at least I don't think so...
Right, they also give out a PhD, but it's rare. That's why I parenthesesed MBA and left open other styles for other B-school degrees. I would recommend something like: PhD (Business) Pacman 23:45, 28 November 2007 (EST)
Warren Buffett received an MS. And the B-school had an undergrad program (basically an accounting major) until the 1950s. And the fact that you, me, and Raza are spending our time debating this across half the world is more proof than ever that WikiCU needs new blood beyond its core corps of CUCom holdouts. Ttan 01:42, 29 November 2007 (EST)
  • Guys this gets just #(@#$ messy. For example, for a long time, the med school award MBs, not MDs. The law school awarded LLBs, not JDs. And right now, the legal name of our degree, as denoted by my transcript, is still AB. I don't think identifying the degree with the school is of much help either, because schools like GSAS were recently formed of faculties that have been in the books for ages. Nor is assuming that certain degrees are ONLY awarded by certain schools (GS and the Nursing both award BAs, for example). Moreover, SEAS has had almost a half-dozen names throughout its lifetime. I think the ideal form would be: Name Degree (Discipline/Faculty) Year. I.E.:
  • Warren Buffett MS (Business) '51
  • John Jay AB (College) 1764
  • Alfredo Zaragoza BA (GS) '05
  • Wm. Theodore de Bary AB (College) '41, MA (Philosophy) '48, PhD (Philosophy) '53, LittD (Hons) '94

Thoughts and suggestions? Ttan 01:48, 29 November 2007 (EST)

Your system is theoretically ideal but aesthetically fugly. Pacman 01:50, 29 November 2007 (EST)
Then lets decide on a list of shorthands / degrees that are unambiguously awarded only by a single faculty:
  • AB = CC/KC AB
  • JD = Law
  • LLB = Law
  • MBA = Business
  • MD = Medicine'
  • BC = Barnard BA
  • MArch = Architecture
  • MFA = SoA
That's about it. Even using "J" for Journalism is bad, because Journalism awards both MAs and MSes. Ttan 01:53, 29 November 2007 (EST)
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