Association of American Universities

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Association of American Universities
FormationFebruary 28, 1900;124 years ago (1900-02-28) [1]
Founded at Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Type 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2]
52-1945674 [2]
Headquarters William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Location
    • United States
    • Canada
Coordinates 38°54′01″N77°01′42″W / 38.90028°N 77.02833°W / 38.90028; -77.02833
Membership
71
President
Barbara Snyder [3]
Chair
Carol Folt
Website www.aau.edu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of American research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Founded in 1900, it consists of 69 universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada. AAU membership is by invitation only and requires an affirmative vote of three-quarters of current members.

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Organization

The AAU was founded on February 28, 1900, by a group of 14 Doctor of Philosophy degree-granting universities [lower-alpha 1] in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. [1] American universities—starting with University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University in 1876—were adopting the research-intensive German model of higher education. Lack of standardization damaged European universities' opinions of their American counterparts and many American students attended graduate school in Europe instead of staying in the U.S. The presidents of Harvard University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Californiasent a letter of invitation to nine other universities—Clark University, Catholic University of America, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and Yale University—to meet in Chicago in February 1900 to promote and raise standards. [4] The AAU's founding members elected Harvard's Charles William Eliot as the association's first president [1] and Stanford's David Starr Jordan as its first chairman. [5]

In 1914, the AAU began accrediting undergraduate education at its member and other schools. German universities used the "AAU Accepted List" to determine whether a college's graduates were qualified for graduate programs. Regional accreditation agencies existed in the U.S. by the 1920s, and the AAU ended accrediting schools in 1948. [6]

For its first six decades, the AAU functioned as a club for the presidents and deans of elite research universities to informally discuss educational matters, and its day-to-day operations were managed by an executive secretary. [7] In the 1970s, the AAU shifted to a role of active advocacy on behalf of its members' interests; dues were raised, more staff members were hired, and its chief executive was given the title of president and the duty of becoming far more publicly visible than his predecessors. [8]

Today, the AAU consists of 71 U.S. and Canadian universities of varying sizes and missions that share a commitment to research. The organization's primary purpose is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies in order to strengthen programs in academic research, scholarship, and education at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.

Benefits

The largest attraction of the AAU for many schools, especially nonmembers, is prestige. Since the AAU's founding, it has "been a grouping of the elite in the American university world", and "[n]ew presidents of nonmember universities often list gaining admission to the AAU as a goal of their administration." [7] For example, in 2010 the chancellor of nonmember North Carolina State University described it as "the pre-eminent research-intensive membership group. To be a part of that organization is something N.C. State aspires to." [9] A spokesman for nonmember University of Connecticut called it "perhaps the most elite organization in higher education. You'd probably be hard-pressed to find a major research university that didn't want to be a member of the AAU." [10] In 2012, the newly elected chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst, a nonmember of AAU, reaffirmed the objective of elevating the campus to AAU standards and the hope of becoming a member in the near future, and called it a distinctive status. [11] Because of the lengthy and difficult entrance process, boards of trustees, state legislators, and donors often see membership as evidence of the quality of a university. [9]

The AAU acts as a lobbyist at its headquarters in Washington, DC, for research and higher education funding and for policy and regulatory issues affecting research universities. The association holds two meetings annually, both in Washington. Separate meetings are held for university presidents, provosts, and other officials. Because the meetings are private, they offer the opportunity for discussion without media coverage. Prominent government officials, business leaders, and others often speak to the groups. [9]

Presidents

ExecutiveTerm
Thomas A. Bartlett 1977–1982
Robert M. Rosenzweig1983–1993
Cornelius J. Pings1993–1998
Nils Hasselmo 1998–2006
Robert M. Berdahl 2006–2011
Hunter R. Rawlings III 2011–2016
Mary Sue Coleman 2016–2020
Barbara Snyder 2020–present

Statistics

As of 2004, AAU members accounted for 58 percent [lower-alpha 2] of U.S. universities' research grants and contract income and 52 percent of all doctorates awarded in the United States. Since 1999, 43 percent of all Nobel Prize winners and 74 percent of winners at U.S. institutions have been affiliated with an AAU university. Approximately two-thirds of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006 Class of Fellows are affiliated with an AAU university. The faculties at AAU universities include 2,993 members of the United States National Academies (82 percent of all members): the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine (2004). [12]

Membership

AAU membership is by invitation only, which requires an affirmative vote of three-fourths of current members. Invitations are considered periodically, based in part on an assessment of the breadth and quality of university programs of research and graduate education, as well as undergraduate education. The association ranks its members using four criteria: research spending, the percentage of faculty who are members of the National Academies, faculty awards, and citations. Non-member universities whose research and education profile exceeds that of a number of current members may be invited to join the association; current members whose research and education profile falls significantly below that of other current members or below the criteria for admission of new members will be subject to further review and possible discontinuation of membership. [13] A vote by two-thirds of the member institutions can revoke membership for poor rankings. [14] [15] As of 2022 annual dues are $139,500. [16] All 69 U.S. members of the AAU are also classified as Highest Research Activity (R1) Universities by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, as are three of the five former AAU members.

Current members

Institution [17] State or provinceControlEstablishedYear joinedTotal studentsMedical school [18] [19]
(LCME accredited)
Engineering program [20]
(ABET accredited)
Land-Grant Institution [21]
(NIFA)
Federally funded R&D exp. [22]

(Dollars in thousands)

Arizona State University ArizonaPublic18852023144,800Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg274,541
Boston University MassachusettsPrivate1839201236,729Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg402,443
Brandeis University MassachusettsPrivate194819855,808Red x.svgRed x.svgRed x.svg52,147
Brown University Rhode IslandPrivate176419338,619Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg198,574
California Institute of Technology CaliforniaPrivate189119342,231Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg293,197
Carnegie Mellon University PennsylvaniaPrivate1900198212,908Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg234,993
Case Western Reserve University OhioPrivate1826196912,201Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg340,438
Columbia University New YorkPrivate1754190029,250Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg831,648
Cornell University New YorkPrivate1865190021,904Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg592,359
Dartmouth College New HampshirePrivate17692019 [23] 6,571Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg152,335
Duke University North CarolinaPrivate1838193814,600Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg776,632
Emory University GeorgiaPrivate1836199514,513Green check.svgRed x.svg [lower-alpha 3] Red x.svg515,940
George Washington University District of ColumbiaPrivate1821202326,457Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg161,349
Georgia Institute of Technology GeorgiaPublic1885201029,370Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg852,319
Harvard University MassachusettsPrivate1636190021,000Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg616,589
Indiana University Bloomington IndianaPublic1820190942,731Red x.svg [lower-alpha 4] Green check.svg [25] Red x.svg326,326
Johns Hopkins University MarylandPrivate1876190023,073Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg2,774,643
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MassachusettsPrivate1861193411,319Red x.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg [lower-alpha 5] 483,526
McGill University QuebecPublic1821192636,904Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svgN/A
Michigan State University MichiganPublic1855196451,316Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg349,889
New York University New YorkPrivate1831195061,950Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg547,027
Northwestern University IllinoisPrivate1851191721,208Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg572,975
Ohio State University OhioPublic1870191660,540Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg559,797
Pennsylvania State University PennsylvaniaPublic1855195845,518Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg622,532
Princeton University New JerseyPrivate174619008,010Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg205,000
Purdue University IndianaPublic1869195852,211Red x.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg295,278
Rice University TexasPrivate191219858,212Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg95,648
Rutgers University–New Brunswick New JerseyPublic1766198941,565Green check.svg [27] Green check.svgGreen check.svg339,015
Stanford University CaliforniaPrivate1891190015,877Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg811,183
Stony Brook University New YorkPublic1957200126,814Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg162,972
Texas A&M University TexasPublic1876200177,491Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg528,057
Tufts University MassachusettsPrivate1852202111,024Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg166,809
Tulane University LouisianaPrivate1834195813,462Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg113,819
University at Buffalo New YorkPublic1846198930,183Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg210,257
University of Arizona ArizonaPublic1885198540,223Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg353,117
University of California, Berkeley CaliforniaPublic1868190036,204Red x.svg [lower-alpha 6] Green check.svgGreen check.svg354,478
University of California, Davis CaliforniaPublic1905199634,175Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg373,719
University of California, Irvine CaliforniaPublic1965199629,588Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg255,010
University of California, Los Angeles CaliforniaPublic1919197442,163Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg721,043
University of California, Riverside CaliforniaPublic1907202326,809Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg97,182
University of California, San Diego CaliforniaPublic1960198230,310Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg801,117
University of California, Santa Barbara CaliforniaPublic1944199525,057Red x.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg122,168
University of California, Santa Cruz CaliforniaPublic19652019 [28] 19,457Red x.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg86,263
University of Chicago IllinoisPrivate1890190014,954Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg394,275
University of Colorado Boulder ColoradoPublic1876196632,775Green check.svg [lower-alpha 7] [29] Green check.svgRed x.svg459,816
University of Florida FloridaPublic1853198555,781Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg423,154
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IllinoisPublic1867190844,520Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg406,612
University of Iowa IowaPublic1847190931,065Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg283,763
University of Kansas KansasPublic1865190927,983Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg187,249
University of Maryland, College Park MarylandPublic1856196937,631Red x.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg713,283
University of Miami FloridaPrivate1925202319,402Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg231,001
University of Michigan MichiganPublic1817190043,426Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg891,125
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MinnesotaPublic1851190852,376Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg570,946
University of Missouri MissouriPublic1839190835,441Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg163,576
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North CarolinaPublic1789192229,390Green check.svgRed x.svg [lower-alpha 8] Red x.svg747,895
University of Notre Dame IndianaPrivate1842202312,809Red x.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg109,891
University of Oregon OregonPublic1876196922,980Red x.svgRed x.svgRed x.svg82,242
University of Pennsylvania PennsylvaniaPrivate1740190024,630Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg792,089
University of Pittsburgh PennsylvaniaPublic1787197428,649Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg724,993
University of Rochester New YorkPrivate1850194110,290Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg309,647
University of South Florida FloridaPublic1956202349,766Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg185,364
University of Southern California CaliforniaPrivate1880196948,500Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg574,185
University of Texas at Austin TexasPublic1883192951,913Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg489,827
University of Toronto OntarioPublic1827192697,678Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svgN/A
University of Utah UtahPublic18502019 [31] [32] 32,994Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg340,434
University of Virginia VirginiaPublic1819190424,360Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg297,273
University of Washington WashingtonPublic1861195043,762Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg1,046,377
University of Wisconsin–Madison WisconsinPublic1848190043,275Green check.svgGreen check.svgGreen check.svg646,764
Vanderbilt University TennesseePrivate1873195012,795Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg586,880
Washington University in St. Louis MissouriPrivate1853192314,117Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg606,127
Yale University ConnecticutPrivate1701190013,609Green check.svgGreen check.svgRed x.svg647,656

Former members

State or provinceControlEstablishedYear joinedYear leftTotal students
Catholic University of America [lower-alpha 9] [33] Washington, D.C.Private1887190020025,771
Clark University [lower-alpha 10] [34] MassachusettsPrivate1887190019993,498 (2019)
Iowa State University [lower-alpha 11] [35] [36] IowaPublic18581958202230,708 (2021)
Syracuse University [lower-alpha 12] [37] New YorkPrivate18701966201121,322 (2020)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln [lower-alpha 13] [38] NebraskaPublic18691909201125,820 (Fall 2018)

Map of schools

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South Florida
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Arizona State
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UC Riverside
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George Washington
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Miami
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Notre Dame
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Rice
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Tulane
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Buffalo
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Arizona
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UC Berkeley
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UCLA
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Oregon
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USC
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Stanford
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Washington
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Colorado
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Texas A&M
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Florida
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Vanderbilt
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Missouri
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Penn State
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Rutgers
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Indiana
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Michigan
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Michigan State
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Ohio State
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Illinois
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Iowa
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Minnesota
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Northwestern
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Purdue
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Wisconsin
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Maryland
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Ga. Tech
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Virginia
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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Duke
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Pitt
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Brown
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Columbia
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Cornell
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Penn
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Princeton
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Yale
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Caltech
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UC Davis
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UC Irvine
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UC San Diego
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UC Santa Barbara
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UC Santa Cruz
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Emory
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U. Chicago
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Johns Hopkins
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NYU
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Stony Brook
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Rochester
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Case Western
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Carnegie Mellon
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McGill
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A map of the AAU schools, with private schools marked blue and public schools marked red. Five private schools in Greater Boston are not labeled separately due to their close geographic proximity: Boston University, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts.

 

Advocacy

In 2014, the AAU supported the proposed Research and Development Efficiency Act arguing that the legislation "can lead to a long-needed reduction in the regulatory burden currently imposed on universities and their faculty members who conduct research on behalf of the federal government." [39] According to the AAU, "too often federal requirements" for accounting for federal grant money "are ill-conceived, ineffective, and/or duplicative." [39] This wastes the researchers' times and "reduces the time they can devote to discovery and innovation and increases institutional compliance costs." [39]

Similar organizations in other countries

Similar organizations around the world include the Russell Group (United Kingdom), U15 (Germany), League of European Research Universities (Europe), BRICS Universities League (BRICS), Association of East Asian Research Universities (mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), C9 League (China), Group of Eight (Australia), RU11 (Japan), and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (Canada).

See also

Notes

  1. The Association of American Universities was founded by the University of California, the University of Chicago, Catholic University of America, Clark University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and Yale University, all of which were its first members. [1]
  2. Over $15.9 billion: NIH: $9.1 billion, 60 percent of total academic research funding. Research Funding: National Science Foundation: $2.0 billion, 63 percent of total academic research funding Department of Defense: $1.2 billion, 56 percent of total academic research funding Department of Energy: $505.2 million, 63 percent of total academic research funding NASA: $673.2 million, 57 percent of total academic research funding Department of Agriculture: $271.9 million, 41 percent of total academic research funding.
  3. Although Emory shares a joint engineering department with Georgia Tech, the program is accredited through Georgia Tech. [24]
  4. While the funding numbers of the Indiana University School of Medicine are reported through IUB, IUSM is accredited through its main campus at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). After IUPUI is dissolved at the end of the 2023–24 academic year, IUSM's accreditation will be through the newly established Indiana University Indianapolis.
  5. USDA has confirmed that MIT is eligible to apply for grants that are available only to land-grant institutions, the State of Massachusetts chooses to allocate its federal capacity appropriations to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [26]
  6. The University of California, Berkeley is closely tied with the LCME-accredited University of California, San Francisco, which only provides graduate-level courses. The two universities share a joint program
  7. The University of Colorado School of Medicine is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder, a LCME accredited school of medicine.
  8. UNC-Chapel Hill offers an ABET accredited Biomedical Engineering degree jointly with North Carolina State University. The engineering courses are offered through the NC State College of Engineering, while the medical courses are offered through UNC-Chapel Hill. [30]
  9. Departed as a result of "institutional emphases and energies" that differed from the other AAU members.
  10. Departed because of a shift in the AAU's emphasis to large research universities.
  11. Iowa State departed claiming that AAU's internal ranking indicators unfairly favor institutions with high levels of NIH funding and noted that its strength is not in biomedical research because the school does not have a medical school.
  12. Because of a dispute over how to count nonfederal grants, Syracuse voluntarily withdrew from the AAU in 2011. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that after "it became clear that Syracuse wouldn't meet the association's revised membership criteria, university officials decided that they would leave the organization voluntarily, rather than face a vote like Nebraska's, and notified the leadership of their intentions."
  13. Removed from the AAU. Chancellor Harvey Perlman said that the lack of an on-campus medical school (the Medical Center is a separate campus of the University of Nebraska system) and the AAU's disregarding of USDA-funded agricultural research in its metrics hurt the university's performance in the association's internal ranking system. In 2010 Perlman stated that had Nebraska not been part of the AAU, the Big Ten Conference would likely not have invited it to become the athletic conference's 12th member.

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