[NU Sports] Expansion & Academics

[Mike Nolan]

> and the CIC is why the Big Ten is really off on its numbering since there
> are 12 members of the CIC.  Univ. of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten when
> Robert Hutchens decided to downgrade  athletics long ago but kept their
> membership  in CIC.

Not quite.  The University of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten in 1946.

The first steps that led to the founding of the CIC were taken in 1956 at a meeting 
of the Council of Ten, a semi-annual meeting of the Presidents of the Big Ten 
institutions.  

The CIC itself began in 1957 and the University of Chicago was invited to join soon 
after that.  Penn State was invited to join CIC when it joined the Big Ten.  
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Mike Nolan