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This article focuses almost solely on the US - it has a section for each state, and not one on a single other country or regions other than the broad category of "around the world". Needs a major overhaul. 130.15.43.101 ( talk) 06:21, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
College town is the proper term, not university town. Europeans seem to be missing the point of what a college town is. It just isn't a town that has a university and a lot of students in it. It is a town/city that is practically run by the college. A town that is so interconnected with the college that it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Leeds? Manchester? Seriously? There is a complete disconnect with the definitions that americans have traditionally used and europeans are using. -- DavisJune ( talk) 00:31, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I guess the key phrase in this article is "have been called college towns", which I think borders on weasel wording.
Many of the cities listed in this article probably should not be labeled as college towns as they are extensive metropolitan areas where the colleges or universities present are not really a dominant presence compared to other factors of the city. Reno, NV, Tucson, AZ, Austin, TX, Pittsburgh, PA, Knoxville & Nashville, TN, particularly do not fit the mold, but several others on the list too. Apparently merely having a college campus located in the city, or nearby has qualified it as a "college town". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gillwill ( talk • contribs) 03:26, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
1) The title of this article is biased. In the huge majority of countries around the world, institutes of higher learning are primarily called Universities, not colleges- which are normally synonymous with further learning institutions. The article should be renamed 'University Town' to reflect a worldwide view.
2) The phenomenon is not just a US one, just because one study says. Quite clearly there are university towns around the world; in Europe I can think of Salamanca in Spain, Leeds in the UK and Uppsala in Sweden, and those are just the first that came into my head.
3) There is no need for an extensive list of US university towns- this only adds to the bias. It should be a separate article if deemed necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.46.158 ( talk) 12:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Hyde Park is a neighborhood within the city of Chicago, not a town. It shouldn't be included in the article. If you change the name to "College communities" then you might have a case, Mr. Person Who Put that in the Article, but otherwise no. 68.59.32.38 ( talk) 06:40, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not opposed to the full move, but I think there should at least be a small list of college towns on the main page. As it stands now, there aren't any U.S college towns listed (strange because college town are predominately american) and this presents a lopsided view of college towns and what they actually are. I also think that the move of the list of college towns to a new page should not have been done without approval. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavisJune ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Columbus, Ohio isn't considered a college town, at least as far as the sources I have read in this article and elsewhere. While OSU football is certainly the most popular sport in town (basketball rarely sells out), current OSU students do not account for a large percentage of the population of a city of some 800,000 people. The fact that the city has a large OSU following does not make Columbus a college town; maybe a college sports-crazed town, but not a "college town" in the sense that is being defined in this article. College towns are towns or areas that have large college student populations compared to the regular population. That's why places in Ohio like Athens, Oxford, Bowling Green, and Kent, all of which have large universities in a small city, are considered college towns, but larger cities like Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus (all of which have large public universities) are not. Has nothing to do with fan support. Please take the time to actually read the sources used in the article and the article content itself instead of repeatedly adding unsourced content. -- JonRidinger ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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This article focuses almost solely on the US - it has a section for each state, and not one on a single other country or regions other than the broad category of "around the world". Needs a major overhaul. 130.15.43.101 ( talk) 06:21, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
College town is the proper term, not university town. Europeans seem to be missing the point of what a college town is. It just isn't a town that has a university and a lot of students in it. It is a town/city that is practically run by the college. A town that is so interconnected with the college that it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Leeds? Manchester? Seriously? There is a complete disconnect with the definitions that americans have traditionally used and europeans are using. -- DavisJune ( talk) 00:31, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I guess the key phrase in this article is "have been called college towns", which I think borders on weasel wording.
Many of the cities listed in this article probably should not be labeled as college towns as they are extensive metropolitan areas where the colleges or universities present are not really a dominant presence compared to other factors of the city. Reno, NV, Tucson, AZ, Austin, TX, Pittsburgh, PA, Knoxville & Nashville, TN, particularly do not fit the mold, but several others on the list too. Apparently merely having a college campus located in the city, or nearby has qualified it as a "college town". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gillwill ( talk • contribs) 03:26, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
1) The title of this article is biased. In the huge majority of countries around the world, institutes of higher learning are primarily called Universities, not colleges- which are normally synonymous with further learning institutions. The article should be renamed 'University Town' to reflect a worldwide view.
2) The phenomenon is not just a US one, just because one study says. Quite clearly there are university towns around the world; in Europe I can think of Salamanca in Spain, Leeds in the UK and Uppsala in Sweden, and those are just the first that came into my head.
3) There is no need for an extensive list of US university towns- this only adds to the bias. It should be a separate article if deemed necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.46.158 ( talk) 12:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Hyde Park is a neighborhood within the city of Chicago, not a town. It shouldn't be included in the article. If you change the name to "College communities" then you might have a case, Mr. Person Who Put that in the Article, but otherwise no. 68.59.32.38 ( talk) 06:40, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not opposed to the full move, but I think there should at least be a small list of college towns on the main page. As it stands now, there aren't any U.S college towns listed (strange because college town are predominately american) and this presents a lopsided view of college towns and what they actually are. I also think that the move of the list of college towns to a new page should not have been done without approval. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavisJune ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Columbus, Ohio isn't considered a college town, at least as far as the sources I have read in this article and elsewhere. While OSU football is certainly the most popular sport in town (basketball rarely sells out), current OSU students do not account for a large percentage of the population of a city of some 800,000 people. The fact that the city has a large OSU following does not make Columbus a college town; maybe a college sports-crazed town, but not a "college town" in the sense that is being defined in this article. College towns are towns or areas that have large college student populations compared to the regular population. That's why places in Ohio like Athens, Oxford, Bowling Green, and Kent, all of which have large universities in a small city, are considered college towns, but larger cities like Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus (all of which have large public universities) are not. Has nothing to do with fan support. Please take the time to actually read the sources used in the article and the article content itself instead of repeatedly adding unsourced content. -- JonRidinger ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)