Template talk:Annapolis Group

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This template takes up a lot of space. Could you please pipe the names of the institutions as to omit the word College/University. You could look at any number of other similar templates as an example. Thanks, -MrFizyx 02:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea. I went ahead and shortened most of the names - though I had to leave "college" or "university" in some places when schools shared the same name or when removing them left the identity of the college a mystery. Thanks for the feedback. -Classicfilms 06:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, thats much better. -MrFizyx 14:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I changed Connecticut College's listing to its full name. The state's public university, the University of Connecticut, uses the name "Connecticut" for sports teams. Local Connecticut residents would always think "Connecticut" alone means UConn. So I made this change to avoid confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.72.119 (talk) 03:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have added colors -- they are not "arbitrarity decorative" but are the colors used at http://www.collegenews.org/theannapolisgroup.xml. --King of the Arverni (talk) 22:51, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@ElKevbo, do you have a sense of how important the chair is to an organization like this? I'm somewhat inclined to remove the link to it from the navbox here, leaving it for the Annapolis Group article. Sdkb ^talk 16:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any specific knowledge of or experience with this particular group. In general, I would approach your question from at least two angles. First, I'd look to see how much formal power and responsibility the chair has in the organization. Second, I'd look to see how the chair works with others in the organization, particularly professional staff that only work for the organization (as opposed to volunteers who typically work for a college or university and support the organization as a professional service without pay, usually with the support of their employer).

For this specific group, I don't get a sense that the chair has a lot of responsibilities or authority. That's in large part because I can't really figure out what this group actually does. As someone who is well-informed about the US higher education landscape but not involved with this group in any way, I've long been under the impression that this group either works really far under the radar or simply focuses on practical issues that are important to the member organizations but don't have widespread impact. ElKevbo (talk) 11:39, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]