AAU adds six universities

[Rufus]

The AAU has added six universities to its research consortium:

Notre Dame
Miami
Arizona State
South Florida
George Washington
UC Riverside

The B1G has always coveted Notre Dame, but I wonder how much impact this has on either Miami or Arizona State getting into the B1G?

Six Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities | Association of American Universities (AAU)

The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities welcoming Arizona State University; the George Washington University; the University of California, Riverside; the University of Miami; the University of Notre Dame; and the University of South Florida to its membership:

www.aau.edu

 

[CashewCrew]

Get it together UConn

 

[Kolumbo]

U California has 10 campuses and now only Merced and San Fran are not AAU. Merced has 9k students and San Fran 3k, graduate only.

Soooo, B1G now has a few more options.

 

[CL82]

U California has 10 campuses and now only Merced and San Fran are not AAU. Merced has 9k students and San Fran 3k, graduate only.

Soooo, B1G now has a few more options.

Anyone think it is interesting that the Big Ten reaffirmed AAU membership as a criteria for admission fairly recently?

 

[Chin Diesel]

The AAU has added six universities to its research consortium:

Notre Dame
Miami
Arizona State
South Florida
George Washington
UC Riverside

The B1G has always coveted Notre Dame, but I wonder how much impact this has on either Miami or Arizona State getting into the B1G?

Six Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities | Association of American Universities (AAU)

The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities welcoming Arizona State University; the George Washington University; the University of California, Riverside; the University of Miami; the University of Notre Dame; and the University of South Florida to its membership:

www.aau.edu

USF and UCF have both grown at a crazy rate the past 25 years. USF has taken an academics first approach and its paid off. UCF is getting better academically but is still a diploma mill.

Arizona State has huge undergrad population as well.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

this is awful news for UConn. We really need to get into the AAU. It's not just for sports but to confirm that we are a research university committed to excellence. Four of the recent additions will be competitive now to get into the Big 10.

 

[storrsroars]

Anyone think it is interesting that the Big Ten reaffirmed AAU membership as a criteria for admission fairly recently?

Nebraska to B12 to make room for ND?

 

[hoopsfan22]

Anyone think it is interesting that the Big Ten reaffirmed AAU membership as a criteria for admission fairly recently?

Yep. And look who the first school on that list is.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Susan Herbst and her priorities for UConn have to take some of the blame for UConn losing out on this latest round of AAU offers. She should have made research the top priority. It is similar to that day a dozen years ago when the ACC selected Louisville.

 

[Rufus]

Surprised Florida State didn’t make the cut. I have heard for awhile now that both Miami and FSU were close to meeting the metrics. Miami made it. FSU didn’t. USF pops up out of nowhere and makes it. Wasn’t expecting that one.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Surprised Florida State didn’t make the cut. I have heard for awhile now that both Miami and FSU were close to meeting the metrics. Miami made it. FSU didn’t. USF pops up out of nowhere and makes it. Wasn’t expecting that one.

FSU's president, Richard Dean McCullough, was previously Vice Provost for Research at Harvard.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Here is the latest impact from AAU announcement

 

[nelsonmuntz]

That South Florida got in the AAU and UConn did not should cost someone their job.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Susan Herbst and her priorities for UConn have to take some of the blame for UConn losing out on this latest round of AAU offers. She should have made research the top priority. It is similar to that day a dozen years ago when the ACC selected Louisville.

I can't speak on what ended up happening but early in her tenure this was a priority of hers. The tech park and the attempt to build a major bio-med facility were for this purpose. Like many projects we've attempted at the school this turned out to be very underwhelming.

 

[dvegas]

I've heard that a reason UConn is not a member/and might never reach the threshold to be admitted to the AAU is there are many existing members in New England (eight, one in CT) and proximal NY/NJ (another eight), and only so many research dollars to go around (regionally), plus the accounting issue of the medical school being off campus, all which work against UConn. That being said, I know the university is actively trying to do more research and raise more money for those endeavors.

 

[ScottVib]

Obviously the natural conclusion to draw is USF is going to the Big Ten.

 

[Kolumbo]

I don't know the details of all the metrics but this is discouraging. I thought it was extremely difficult to get into the AAU because it just doesn't accept that many universities, and suddenly 6 get in. USF was only founded in 1956. The latest round, only UC Riverside is a land grant U.

2023 - 6
2021 - 1 Tufts
2019 - 3 Dartmouth, UC Santa Cruz, Utah
2012 - 1 BU
2010 - 1 Georgia Tech

 

[giddyup]

Susan Herbst and her priorities for UConn have to take some of the blame for UConn losing out on this latest round of AAU offers. She should have made research the top priority. It is similar to that day a dozen years ago when the ACC selected Louisville.

It was a priority but we have one hand tied behind our backs. Half the problem is our Congressional delegation is pathetic and doesn’t deliver research $$ to UConn. $$ go to Yale and subsidizing defense manufacturing.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

UConn can't just take Mickey Mouse steps to become a major research university. Some steps UConn can take: Hire a couple of Nobel prize winners who would teach in Storrs and at UConn Health Center. Set up a few high-level research institutes in STEM subjects that will be internationally prominent. Hire more researchers in STEM subjects who can attract federal and private research dollars. if Yale doesn't want to cooperate then find other elite universities in New England who will. Expand current efforts to commercialize research findings like the way Univ. Wisconsin or Stanford does. The money that this will generate for the state's economy will pay for itself many times over. This is the 21st century not the 1950s.

 

[UConnJim]

That South Florida got in the AAU and UConn did not should cost someone their job.

People underestimate schools like USF. When Herbst became president, USF was doing about 2x the research as UConn. The problem UConn has faced in attracting research dollars has been the overhead that is charged when applying for grants. In other words, UConn's costs are too high. They have tried to address the issue, but that is what has held UConn's research dollars back.

 

[BigTenFan]

Many private corporations are setting up business adjacent to these Universities to have a pipeline to students and future employees. They pump private research dollars in . It's a win -win

 

[giddyup]

People underestimate schools like USF. When Herbst became president, USF was doing about 2x the research as UConn. The problem UConn has faced in attracting research dollars has been the overhead that is charged when applying for grants. In other words, UConn's costs are too high. They have tried to address the issue, but that is what has held UConn's research dollars back.

Doesn’t stop Yale which got $1B+ in R&D funding. It’s much more systemic.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

This ASU president has done an incredible job of upgrading that school. It’s equal to or exceeds Uof A in many surveys. A remarkable achievement. (The fact that I Took some classes there in retirement probably put them over the top . )
Seriously though I’m sure Politics from The elite PAC 12 schools trying to keep the group intact could have played a part. A quid pro quo .
The Washington’s , Stamford’s and Cal’s are very influential in academia . Come to think of it ND membership could come with a price . If they announce for the B1G it won’t come as a shock .
Sadly UConn was allegedly knocking on the door 10 -12 years ago . But we don’t know the secret password.
Apparently like any club it doen’t hurt to have friends on the inside.

 

[giddyup]

People underestimate schools like USF. When Herbst became president, USF was doing about 2x the research as UConn. The problem UConn has faced in attracting research dollars has been the overhead that is charged when applying for grants. In other words, UConn's costs are too high. They have tried to address the issue, but that is what has held UConn's research dollars back.

The main problem is the state’s strategic policy chased fuel cells, material sciences and bio sciences in the 90s instead of computer engineering and information sciences. Nano materials and fuel cell tech doesn’t even move the needle compared to info tech. Biotech is strong here (but increasingly overshadowed by Boston). We are on the outside of AI, IoT and quantum computing. The consequence is UConn is no where near the programmatic level of others sitting dead center in the next phase of the digital revolution. It’s the biggest miss possible.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Can someone provide a link explaining what UConn has to do, rather than the same tired “red state good, blue state bad” arguments that got the other thread locked?