[Husker] "Thrown out" of AAU?

[Lynette Tillner]

It seems like rather unfair criteria, especially since UNL while not an original member school has been a member for a very long time. 
 
And, while I am usually a "conspiracy theorist," Texasss is as big an Ag school, if not bigger than UNL  so I doubt they were just trying to get rid of UNL in the criteria changes. Although, Texasss has bigger other departments that probably contribute significantly to Research than UNL does, I'm sure. 
 
I think they are wrong to eliminate the Ag Research from the criteria --- if we had better Ag Research going on, the Honey Bee population might not be in such desparate shape but that's a "Whole 'Nother Story!" said the Beekeeper's wife! 
 
 
Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
ltillner at yahoo.com

From: "aj05810 at windstream.net" <aj05810 at windstream.net>
To: Husker <husker at tssi.com>; "Killmar, John" <John.Killmar at STJUDE.ORG>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] "Thrown out" of AAU?

I don't believe that there will be any ramifications of Nebraska being chucked out of the AAU on our Big Ten status. That's a done deal. 

As I understand it, the AAU looks at competative research funding as a major part of your qualification to be an AAU member. One of Nebraska's "problems" was that UN-L gets a large amount of non-competative funding from the USDA. This doesn't count in the AAU formula. Additionally, the way the university is structured (seperate medical school), the Med Center research funds didn't count either in the total of competative grant funding. 

If you took the USDA and Med Center research funding into account, NU would rank some where in the middle in research funding in the AAU.

aj




---- "Killmar wrote: 
> It appears from the articles linked below, that the AAU is somewhat of an exclusive club and that universities with a large research budget are more desirable.  There are more institutions clamoring to get in and it looks like they felt the need to "prune" at the bottom of the AAU rankings.  No institution has ever been voted out before and it looks like Nebraska was the victim of a new criteria for AAU members.  When the new criteria was approved, its impact was not clearly understood.  Syracuse will leave or has left the AAU voluntarily.
> 
> It does appear that Nebraska might not have been invited into the Big Ten without an AAU membership.
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> The affect of not being a member of the AAU is not clear according to what I just read.
> 
> http://chronicle.com/article/Ouster-Opens-a-Painful-Debate/127364/
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> http://www.omaha.com/article/20110429/NEWS01/110428852
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> John Killmar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:16 PM
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> Subject: [Husker] "Thrown out" of AAU?
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> Can someone please elaborate on this:
>  In late April, Nebraska was basically kicked out of the Association of American Universities. Every other Big Ten school is a member of that group, which basically is the best of the best.
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> It's from this article:  http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b9rj2
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> Thanks!
> 
> Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
> ltillner at yahoo.com
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