Formation 1958 Headquarters Champaign, Illinois Membership 14 | Type Consortium Location United States | |
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Chair Karen Hanson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Minnesota
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference. The consortium was renamed on June 29, 2016.
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Member universities
The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of the 14 institutions that are members of the Big Ten Conference.
Current members:
Former members:
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.
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) had been a guest member in the CIC for over 20 years, before guest membership was ended at the end of the 2010–11 academic year.
Following its admittance to the Big Ten in 1990, the CIC invited Pennsylvania State University to join the consortium. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln also joined the consortium in 2011 following the school's admittance to the Big Ten.
The University of Maryland and Rutgers University, 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 Big Ten Conference member and former member of the CIC, is not a member of the rebranded consortium, but will continue to be a collaborator.
Statistics
When considered collectively, BTAA universities educate approximately 600,000 students, including approximately 400,000 full-time undergraduate 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 $10 billion in funded research and BTAA libraries own over 100 million volumes.
Collectively, BTAA members employ approximately 50,000 full-time faculty members.
Collaboration
The BTAA's collaborative efforts span the academic enterprise of its members, including: