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George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 2 July 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into George Washington University. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

WRGW (student radio) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 October 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into George Washington University. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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George Washington University was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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November 2, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 11, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Copyright problem removed[edit]

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Content was added to article by a revert. I've removed the copyrighted material again but in a separate edit from other changes to the article. Redraiderengineer (talk) 05:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies[edit]

There is currently a controversies section. It has one subject. About the same time, there was another controversy: GW's CSSA objected to satirical art criticizing the Chinese government in the context of the then-upcoming 2022 Olympics. The administration at first sided with the CSSA and then reversed course ( https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/george-washington-university-badiucao-censorship-1234618494/, https://www.axios.com/2022/02/07/olympic-protest-posters-removed-us-university-chinese-students). It made the news in arts and free-speech media. I think this is probably worth including.Kdammers (talk) 22:13, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: University Writing 1020 Communicating Feminism MW 1 pm[edit]

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Wiki Education assignment: University Writing 1020 Communicating Feminism TR1 pm[edit]

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sentence about first federal university charter is inaccurate?[edit]

The second sentence: "it was chartered in 1821 as Washington, D.C.'s first university". But Georgetown University appears to have been first: "President James Madison signed into law Georgetown's congressional charter on March 1, 1815, creating the first federal university charter". (Both Georgetown University and George Washington University are in Washington, DC.) University_charter#Federal says: "Georgetown University was the first federally chartered institution of higher education in the United States when President James Madison signed the university's charter into law on March 1, 1815." neatnate (talk) 04:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]