The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), is the academic

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of the universities in the

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representat ...

. The consortium was renamed on June 29, 2016.

Member universities

The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of the 14 institutions that are members of the

. The University of Chicago, a former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016. Current members: * Indiana University Bloomington * Michigan State University * Northwestern University * Ohio State University * Pennsylvania State University *

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* University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign * University of Iowa * University of Maryland, College Park * University of Michigan *

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universi ...

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History

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation was established by the presidents of the Big Ten members in 1958 as the conference's academic counterpart. An invitation extended to the University of Chicago, one of the founding members of the Big Ten who withdrew from the conference in 1946, was accepted. Following its admittance to the Big Ten in 1990, the CIC invited Pennsylvania State University to join the consortium. The

also joined the consortium in 2011 following the school's admittance to the Big Ten. The

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and

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, who joined the Big Ten in 2014, joined the consortium on July 1, 2013. On June 29, 2016, the name of the consortium was changed from "Committee on Institutional Cooperation" to "Big Ten Academic Alliance". The University of Chicago, a former

member and former member of the CIC, is not a member of the rebranded consortium, but continues to participate in programs through an affiliation agreement.

Statistics

When considered collectively, BTAA universities educate over 605,000 students, including approximately 400,000 full-time

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students and over 100,000 full-time graduate students. BTAA universities award 29% of all agriculture Ph.D.s, 18% of engineering Ph.D.s, and 18% of humanities Ph.D.s in the United States annually. BTAA members, when viewed collectively, conducted a combined total of $9.8 billion in funded research and BTAA libraries own over 110 million volumes. Collectively, BTAA members employ approximately 49,000 instructional staff.

Collaboration

The BTAA's collaborative efforts span the academic enterprise of its members, including: *cooperative purchasing and licensing *course sharing *

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programs *

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resources *

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*international collaborations *

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networking *participant in

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References

External links

The Big Ten Academic Alliance
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