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This reads like some Sasha Baron Cohen stunt.
Without the humor.
This reads like some Sasha Baron Cohen stunt.
Iv99, the key point is that the AAU is a lobbying organization and only a lobbying organization. Its goal is to persuade Congress to appropriate lots of money for university-hosted research. But its lobbying has little effect, because no one in Congress wants to cut university funding but there is no money to increase it. Its members want membership to be a mark of prestige so that they get some marketing/branding value in exchange for their $80k/year contribution. Thus, they impose stringent membership criteria. This exclusivity is purely for show. If the organization were doing anything of real value, then they would want more members in order to strengthen the organization.
No school is going to let AAU membership determine the future of its athletic programs. There is no relationship between the AAU and athletics.
After Nebraska was removed from the AAU, Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman said "I doubt that our application would've been accepted had we not been a member of the AAU."
HuskyHawk, I remember reading (though I am too lazy to research my recollection) that NU's med school was not included because it is not actually legally organized as their med school - different BOD, loose affiliation with the university, etc. I think this situation was more unusual than the facilities being off campus.
Exactly my original point. The question is at least debatable. And the Big Ten didn't kick them out. It came from application of a set of rules for calculating research grants that excluded agricultural research and excluded research from the med school because it is off campus. Which is one reason why I keep saying that UConn has the same problems, despite better overall academics.
Please stop with the AAU discussions - no one knows what the hell they're talking about. They're almost as duck*ing insane as the Penn State threads and the legal opinion threads.
UConn isn't joining the AAU and UConn isn't being invited to the Big Ten. It's not happening next year or in five years or in ten years.
So you're saying we're a lock in 11 years?