Talk:Silicon Valley University

Composition of the faculty as described in 2006 book

There is continuing contention over a statement in this article indicating that as of 2006, SVU's faculty was all Chinese. That statement is based on a statement in a book published in 2006, describing the situation that existed as of the time of the book's writing. Another user (one whose contributions are limited to this particular topic) has persisted in removing that statement, and says that the list of faculty names on the website shows that SVU's faculty is not all Chinese.

For what it's worth, I believe that the current faculty is not all Chinese. However, the statement in the article is not about the current faculty, bu rather is about the past. Information about the current situation of the school doesn't tell us anything about the situation that existed 4 years ago. Furthermore, Wikipedia's policy against original research prevents us from making statements about the current faculty based solely on a list of names on the website. Ideally, the article could say something along the lines of "As of 2006, the faculty was entirely Chinese, but subsequent expansion has added faculty members of other nationalities," but in order to say that we need to be able to cite a source that provided that information (not our own inferences based on a list of names).

An institution's history is an appropriate topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia article. Many universities have changed greatly over time, and those changes are worthwhile to document. I have zero firsthand knowledge of this school and no point of view to push, but I have been trying to develop and maintain verifiable content (for this and many other articles). I included that statement about the ethnicity of the faculty because I thought it was interesting (and might help to explain why we have been able to find so little third-party coverage of SVU in English-language sources).

I continue to hope that additional verifiable and objective information about the school can be added to the article. --Orlady (talk) 03:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Controversy with Indian student deporations

In this article it's mentioned that students who planned to study here from India were deported (or prevented from boarding their flight) - http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/they-went-to-us-with-college-dreams-returned-after-3-days-in-jail-1257393

HYDERABAD: Fourteen Indian students who travelled to the US last week chasing college dreams have been deported allegedly after being detained and questioned for 14-15 hours allegedly by the FBI in San Francisco. Another set of students who arrived today in Delhi said they were kept in a cell for three days before being deported.

A third set of students, 19 of them, were stopped by Air India from taking a flight from Hyderabad to San Francisco even though they had visas. Air India says these students were stopped so that they could avoid the humiliation of being deported because Air India's counterpart in the US had advised them to stop students coming to join blacklisted universities in the US.

What is common between these three groups is that they were heading to the Silicon Valley University at San Jose and North Western Polytechnic College, Fremont, both in California; these universities have been blacklisted by the US, according to information provided to Air India by the US Customs and Border protection agency.

204.27.197.5 (talk) 19:40, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Additional sources

Starting a section here to record other online resources regarding this college. This April 20, 2018 article in Silicon Valley Business Journal is almost entirely a rehash of the San Francisco Chronicle story on its being ordered to close. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:13, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The same story as the above section, December 2015 in the Mercury News. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:42, 21 April 2018 (UTC)