I've tried creating some new course pages and institutions, and the institutions show up as inactive even though they have current courses, and (as a consequence, I assume) the course doesn't show up in the list of current courses.
See:
http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:New_York_University
http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_Wikis
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