Wiki143:WikiProject Higher education
Template:Short description Template:WikiProject status {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher education/sidebar}} Script error: No such module "about". WikiProject Higher education aims to improve the coverage of universities and colleges on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join our project by adding your name at the List of participants and including this page on your watchlist.
About the project
Goals
- Standardize the structure and content of all college and university articles
- Ensure colleges' and universities' articles comply with Wikipedia's five pillars
- Improve the coverage of higher education, propelling articles to featured status
- Serve as the central hub for all discussions and information related to higher education coverage
- Add missing and requested higher education articles
Task forces and sub-projects
Task forces are meant to provide centralized information and a discussion area for topics that have a sufficiently large scope, but that would not benefit from having a separate WikiProject with all of the additional work that would involve. This WikiProject formerly had the Student Affairs task force, but it is now inactive.
Geographic areas, athletic conferences, or individual institutions with multiple pages and the interest of several active Wikipedians may become the subject of a sub-project. Propose the new project on the WikiProject Higher education talk page or at the WikiProject Council to make sure there is enough interest before starting a new project. See the related projects section for examples.
Showcase articles
Here are some high-quality examples of articles within this project's scope:
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Other pagesHistory Campus
Campus buildings and features Notable alumni and faculty Extracurricular organizations
Athletics teams Traditions School song Regional lists
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Style guide
Please see the college and university article guideline for conventions and tips related to these pages.
Article alerts
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Accomplishments
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Templates
Project banner
To add an article to this project, place the Template:Tlx template on an article's talk page. It will display like this:
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Infobox University
Example
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For United States institutions, the Department of Education presents data at its College Navigator. You can link to a college's page by finding its IPEDS ID at nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator (not the OPE ID) and using the following template.
For example, Valparaiso University's ID is 152600. Therefore, this template produces
You can use an optional second parameter to specify a name other than the title of the Wikipedia page that calls the template.
produces:
Categories
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Subpages
- List of all subpages of this page
Resources
Media coverage
- Signpost WikiProject Report, 30 August 2010
- "Colleges Aren’t Supposed to Fiddle With Their Wikipedia Pages. They Try Anyway." in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2025
Related WikiProjects
By geography
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Individual institutions
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University and college sports
Athletic conferences
- WikiProject ACC – Covering the Atlantic Coast Conference
- WikiProject Big Ten – Covering the Big Ten Conference
- WikiProject Big 12 Conference- Covering the Big 12 Conference
Individual sports
Fraternities and Sororities
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