Talk:United World College of Costa Rica

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Text from United World Colleges Costa Rica

In 1996 Helmut Kutin, President of SOS Children's Villages, proposed the foundation of an International SOS College in Latin America similar to the African one already established in Ghana.

The idea was to create a space of academic excellence for students from different SOS villages in Latin America.

This dream became a reality on January 14th, 2000, the day Colegio International SOS Hermann Gmeiner was inaugurated in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica was chosen as the place to construct the college because of its characteristics as a democratic and peaceful country with a high level of education in Latin America. Also taken into account was the fact that the SOS Villages Regional Office for Central America and Mexico is located in Costa Rica.

The Grieg foundation generously financed the transition from SOS to UWC, committing itself to provide one hundred full scholarships during the first five years of existence of the United World College Costa Rica, this being a very important source of financial support for the school. In addition to providing funds for the construction of the current college Per Grieg has also committed himself to offer scholarships for future students from SOS Villages.

In August 2006 the college formally joins the United World Colleges Organisation and from that moment on will be known by the name United World College Costa Rica.

Our goal is to educate young people with strong ethical and moral beliefs, as nature and environmental conservationists as well as defenders of peace in a natural and friendly environment.

Copied for merging reasons Magioladitis 11:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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Revamping the UWC Costa Rica Wikipedia Page

Hello everyone! I'm writing in behalf of the UWC Costa Rica Development Area, specifically Marketing and Communications. We are seeing the need of a big overhaul of the page, as there have been serious and big changes in how the college is structured, how it works, and lots of working changes in the different areas, programs, and initiatives the College has.

We are going to start proposing the changes in the next few weeks referencing our internal and public reports and guidelines. Feel free to keep the conversation going if you have any questions or want to add something! Audiovisual-uwccr (talk) 16:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for noting this on the talk page.

• Note that making edits yourself will likely be flagged as a "Conflict of Interest" (COI), which is against Wikipedia's editing policies.
• It's also possible that your account will have issues, as it is named after the organisation you represent, which will run up against a different policy. (There are lots of policies around here, which are sometimes enforced despite people's good intentions!). See here for a helpful plain-language guide.
• I'd suggest registering with a different username (as an individual, not explicitly representing uwc-cr), and adding a note on your talk page about your relationship with your employer.
• Then, propose updates to the content of the page here (on the article's talk page) rather than making direct edits, and having other editors incorporate that information, instead of making edits yourself. Remember that this page should be objective and to the point, and not a replacement for the organization's website!
• If you could include references from third parties (newspapers, journals, etc are great), that is always preferable to internal reports and even public publications that your organization puts out, where possible.

Dotx3 (talk) 19:16, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me (us) know all of this! We are definitively new to the platform. I (we) will lead it as transparent and responsible as possible. Audiovisual-uwccr (talk) 20:12, 19 February 2024 (UTC)