The CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) is no longer.... Introducing the B1G Academic Alliance
The CIC the B1G's academic division has changed its name to the B1G Academic Alliance in order to easily convey its mission and increase its visibility. Its membership constitutes the B1G members and formerly the University of Chicago... and is a national powerhouse when it comes to reseach. For Example:
B1G Academic Alliance: $10 billion in reseach dollars spent annually *
University of California system: $5 billion
Ivy League Schools: $4.3 billion
* This does not even include John Hopkins University (#1 nationally in R&D expenditures). They have an invite and are still on the sidelines deciding whether to join or not.
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd.
(FYI: Michigan is #2 (GO BLUE!)
The B1G (including John Hopkins) has 13 institutions in the top 50 and 3 in the top 5.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-06-30/cic-drops-name-raise-…
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/06/30/big-tens-academic-…
http://www.btaa.org/news-and-publications/news/2016/06/30/the-committee…
Edit: Credit to CarrIsMyHomeboy below for pointing out that the CIC and BIG Academic Alliance may have different involvement from/with the University of Chicago.
This is where the big money is, and is the reason many institutions want to join the Big Ten.
The amount of money dwarfs the money they get from athletics.
And will be a major consideration in any future B1G expansion.
Notables:
Duke
North Carolina
MIT (as a rowing affiliate)
Georgia Tech
Texas
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for their #12 ranking in R&D expenditures as for their rowing competitiveness. They are similar to John Hopkins and Lacrosse in this regard.
This is also likely one of the reasons Maryland and John Hopkins got the invite. DC is now in the B1G footprint.... Additionally the B1G collaborates a lot on projects together and they share library resources among all member institutions.
Sharing research aside, I just saw in one of your links that they save the schools $19 million alone just by sharing software licenses. Never would've even crossed my mind.
Thanks for posting.
Forgot to mention they pool their power by negotiating together and buying in bulk.
You're right, but it's the data and software access that makes it more valuable than athletic money. It's not quite as tangible as something like a TV contract though.
All the B1G schools (except Rutgers and Maryland) are connected to a fiber optic network called OmniPoP. So basically if Wisconsin gets a grant, I could use my UM credentials and have access to all of their government funded data. All the universities have access to $10 Billion worth of research a year.
is not a factor directly in allocating research grants. But with Maryland literally down the from road from DC (and a B1G office there) and Rutgers literally down the road from Mathattan (again with an office there) I would imagine it might put the B1G in better position to lobby it's case for why they or an individual institution might best be able to utilize said funds. Just speculating.
I always get it confused with CIC (combat information center)
served in the military. If you did, and served in some kind of leadership role you would understand.
commander in chief bro!!! Don't have to be in military to get that. duh
When Johns Hopkins does hear about the dose his brother John got he gonna be pissed.
does this make it easier to send penn state packing to the acc?
YES RGard, yes +1!!! Even the Univ of Pitts. is higher than them!
BTW, FUCK penn state and all their delusional joepa loving fans!!!
They are delusional fucks. I actually know some non-delusional ones, 2 to be precise and they are both nice folks (one is my cousin), but the vast majority sicken me.
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And yes it will.
You may have a bit more background knowledge that what I read. Cheers, will correct.
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so they subtracted that from their research numbers... plus the AAU is decreasing it's weight on agricultural R&D.
Nebraska was a member of the AAU when they were invited to join the B1G, but they were ousted from the AAU before they formally joined the B1G. However, you may be partially correct because the vote to invite Nebraska to the B1G was unanimous whereas two B1G schools (Michigan and Wisconsin) voted against allowing Nebraska to remain in the AAU.
As an aside, UNL should not have been kicked out of the AAU, and I'm a little disappointed that Michigan voted in favor of their ouster. For whatever reason, there seemed to have been a faction within the AAU that was intent on removing UNL, and they were going to do it one way or another (indicated by the fact that the voting deadline was extended because not enough schools had voted by the original deadline). The fact that they couldn't count the research money generated by their medical campus in Omaha in their favor because it was under a separate administrative structure was a pure technicality.
Goddamn cornhuskers...
Nebraska was an AAU member as of the day they were formally invited to join the Big Ten, but by the date of their formal entry they'd been tossed out of the AAU. They were tossed because the UN medical campus is in Omaha, not Lincoln, and also because a good portion of UN's research dollars are agricultural in origin and for some reason that's a pickle up the butts of other AAU members.
I've read that the booting of UN was instigated by Texas in revenge for Nebraska leaving the Big 12 for the Big Ten.
In any event, if Chicago thought that leaving the CIC was justified simply because Nebraska was part of the conference, that's their fuckup.
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I think all schools that were invited to join the B1G were automatically invited to join the CIC. Given that the University of Chicago no longer has any formal relationship with the B1G, I would imagine that they didn't like being in the awkward position of supposedly being a full member of an exclusive organization (the CIC) and yet being the only member without a vote in deciding who else gets invited to join. It wasn't much of an issue in the past since the B1G's membership stayed constant for 44 years after Chicago left, but I'm sure the wave of conference realignment over the past few years has been a factor in how they viewed their place in the CIC. They obviously don't put as much emphasis on athletics as the other CIC members, and they probably saw the expansion of the CIC to include the new B1G members as a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Immediately after Northwestern at #30 and immediately before Illinois at #32.
Again, in addition to football recruits and the "New York" media market they bring academics and R&D money to the table....
I know we all love to joke about how pathetic Rutgers is, but academically, it's not a bad school. As B1G schools go, it's probably in the middle of the pack.
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F***ing funny!
Well played indeed.
that the University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big 10. They stopped being an athletic member but they continued to be a member of the academic consortium (until now.) The comments indicated that they will continue to be a part of the co-operative efforts in some areas. This inidcates that they might fullly come back into this function of the B1G as they are keeping a foot in the door.
might get an "academic affiliate" status or whatnot. Look at those numbers, I can't imagine they would turn down the opportunity to pool their resources with like minded institutions... just don't see it.
Plus I'm sure the B1G is "subtley" encouraging/helping NU get back their AAU status... even though Michigan and Wisconsin were among the schools that voted them out. Plus at the time of acceptance they were AAU members.
I think the problem they were having with the CIC is that they weren't sure they were a like-minded institution. Chicago's quite unlike the 13 public B1G schools--for one thing there's no large pool of undergraduates to instruct, which affects how resources are allocated.
This has been simmering for quite a while. One of the reasons the UAA was founded was to put together a collection of schools closer in spirit to the post-Hutchins Chicago ideal. Maybe that group is about to announce a formal consortium beyond athletics?
The University of Chicago has some mad street cred in the physics department. It is the school of which Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard operated the very first ever nuclear reacter, CP-1. It was part of the Manhattan Project and helped usher in nuclear weapons.
It has mad street cred in pretty much every department. It's unquestionably better academically than any school in the B1G.
It's great at pretty much everything it does, but economics is its big claim to fame. It has more Nobel Laureates in economics than any other school (by far).
so what are the benefits that make it worthwile?
Don't rain on that guys Google Parade. He had to read three or four GOOGLES on the CIC and he mixed in some Latin just to poke his Big Brain Boner out a little further!