[Husker] Views from Big 10 country

[Skylar Dodds]

Well done Steve!

There's no doubt that the Big X is a great academic conference, it's good to
see we can 'hang' with them there too :)

Skylar

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Steve Reichenbach
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 8:46 AM
To: husker at tssi.com; theo at heise.nu
Subject: Re: [Husker] Views from Big 10 country

I'd like to toot the horn for my department at UNL.

In the recently released rankings of US PhD programs by the National
Research Council, Nebraska's computer science program ranks well ahead
of Indiana's.  The NRC released two rankings, Survey-Based and Regression-
Based.  Here is the combined ranking for the 12 Big 10 computer science
programs [http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/computer-science]:

11 Illinois
16 Wisconsin
18 Michigan
20 Michigan St.
29 Penn St.
31 Purdue
32 Nebraska
36 Minnesota
40 Ohio St.
53 Northwestern
63 Indiana
85 Iowa

Incidentally, in the Big 12, only Texas (#23) has a higher ranked
computer science program.  Next in the Big 12, after Nebraska, is
Texas A&M (#45).

What is the IU Chancellor's point or purpose in making this statement?
Overall, one might ask, if Nebraska is not comparable to Indiana, then
is Indiana comparable to Illinois or Wisconsin or Michigan or Minnesota?
It is particularly notable that this comment is from the Chancellor of
what likely would be either the lowest or next to the lowest ranked
university in the Big 10.  I suspect that the IU Chancellor might not
like to use the same definition for "comparable" in comparing IU to
other Big 10 universities.  Perhaps, he really rather likes having
Nebraska bump Indiana off the bottom of the Big 10 academic rankings.

> The local Bloomington, Indiana paper had a couple of articles on 
> Saturday about Nebraska coming to the Big 10--mostly with a view 
> toward academics.  One comment was as follows:
> 
> "Nebraska is not a comparable institution, academically, right now," 
> says Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, university chancellor at Indiana 
> University and, for 15 years, the chairman of the CIC.  "But if they 
> experience what they experienced at Penn State, this will be very 
> good for Nebraska."
> 
> Another comment indicated that Nebraska would soon be contributing 
> equally.  All in all, the views seemed reasonable.
> 
> If you would like a copy of the articles, let me know and I'll send 
> the scan.

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