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History of Michigan State University is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 29, 2012.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 7, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
March 27, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
February 16, 2007	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
January 12, 2008	Featured topic removal candidate	Demoted
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Past School Presidents

Past School Presidents

Joseph R. Williams, 1857-1859

Lewis R. Fiske, 1859-1862

Theophilus C. Abbot, 1862-1885

Edwin Willits, 1885-1889

Oscar Clute, 1889-1893

Lewis G. Gorton, 1893-1895

Jonathan L. Snyder, 1896-1915

Frank S. Kedzie, 1915-1921

David Friday, 1922-1923

Kenyon L. Butterfield, 1924-1928

Robert S. Shaw, 1928-1941

John A. Hannah, 1941-1969

Walter Adams, 1969-1970

Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., 1970-1978

Edgar L. Harden, 1978-1979

Cecil M. Mackey, 1979-1985

John A. DiBiaggio, 1985-1992

Gordon Guyer, 1992-1993

M. Peter McPherson, 1993-2004

Lou Anna K. Simon, 2005-current

The table for presidents is probably relevant, but its current location and formatting just adds a lot of white space to the article (given the clear template). --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Degree-granting colleges

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources • Dean: Jeffrey D. Armstrong

College of Arts and Letters • Acting Dean: Patrick M. McConeghy

The Eli Broad College of Business/The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management • Dean: Robert B. Duncan

College of Communication Arts and Sciences • Dean: Charles T. Salmon

College of Education • Dean: Carole Ames

College of Engineering • Acting Dean: Satish Udpa

College of Human Ecology • Acting Dean: June Youatt

College of Human Medicine • Acting Dean: Marsha Rappley

College of Law (affiliated) • Dean: Terence L. Blackburn

James Madison College • Dean: Sherman W. Garnett

College of Natural Science • Dean: George E. Leroi

College of Nursing • Dean: Marilyn Rothert

College of Osteopathic Medicine • Dean: William D. Strampel

College of Social Science • Dean: Marietta L. Baba

College of Veterinary Medicine • Dean: Lonnie J. King

Pictures

Putting all the pictures in this article in black and white seems like a silly affectation that is inappropriate for an encyclopedic treatment of the material. MrArticleOne (talk) 03:30, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, that just seems unnecessary and manipulative of the reader. But more generally, why show only buildings and not historical figures like File:Joseph R. Williams.jpg or File:Hannah statue.jpg?-- Patrick {_oѺ^∞} 17:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree. It looks really silly. Nick-D (talk) 10:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree also, but until someone goes and takes some color pictures of the same buildings, we're stuck with these. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:15, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shamefully bad.

This article reads like an advertisement published by the University. Nothing remotely significant is mentioned. There is no mention of MSUG, there is no mention of Public Works projects, there is no mention of anything interesting or significant. This article really deserves a serious upheaval, as Michigan State has a fascinating and important history and has been intimately involved in world affairs for better and for uglier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.178.216.56 (talk) 07:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missed possible vandalism by 2602:304:107C:7C99:C9C8:7022:FEA1:A5F0

I caught a few factual inaccuracies that 2602:304:107C:7C99:C9C8:7022:FEA1:A5F0 had introduced into other articles, and so I looked around to see if he'd done anything else. His edit on this article changed several key dates and numbers in the introduction, but his edit was immediately followed by some pretty blatant vandalism that got reverted back and forth. If I've mucked something up royally, let me know.ChristopherGregory (talk) 07:08, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FAR needed

This is a 2006 FA that has not been maintained to standards. There is a good deal of uncited text (only a bit of which is tagged), bare URLs, some MOS issues, and more. Is anyone able to restore the article to standard, to avoid a Featured article review? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:31, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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 I caught a few factual inaccuracies that [[User:2602:304:107C:7C99:C9C8:7022:FEA1:A5F0|2602:304:107C:7C99:C9C8:7022:FEA1:A5F0]] had introduced into other articles, and so I looked around to see if he'd done anything else.  His edit on this article changed several key dates and numbers in the introduction, but his edit was immediately followed by some pretty blatant vandalism that got reverted back and forth.  If I've mucked something up royally, let me know.[[User:ChristopherGregory|ChristopherGregory]] ([[User talk:ChristopherGregory|talk]]) 07:08, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
+== FAR needed ==
+This is a 2006 FA that has not been maintained to standards.  There is a good deal of uncited text (only a bit of which is tagged), bare URLs, some MOS issues, and more.  Is anyone able to restore the article to [[WP:WIAFA|standard]], to avoid a [[WP:FAR|Featured article review]]?  [[User:SandyGeorgia|'''Sandy'''<font color="green">Georgia</font>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 19:31, 16 April 2015 (UTC)