Committee on Institutional Cooperation
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| Committee on Institutional Cooperation | |
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| Formation | 1958 |
| Headquarters | Champaign, Illinois |
| Location |  United States |
| Membership | 13 |
| Chair | Rodney A. Erickson, Executive Vice President and Provost, Pennsylvania State University United States |
| Website | cic.net |
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference plus former conference member, the University of Chicago.[1]
The CIC's mission is to advance academic excellence through collaboration across its member universities. It aims to be the national model for effective, voluntary collaboration among top-tier research universities.
Through collaboration, the CIC increases the competitive advantage of its member institutions. Members enjoy cost savings and greater efficiencies; increased academic opportunities for students; and enhanced professional opportunities for faculty and staff.
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[edit] Member universities
The CIC comprises 13 world-class research institutions. Every CIC member except for the University of Nebraska is also a member of the Association of American Universities.[2]
Current members:
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
[edit] 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.[3]
Following its admittance to the Big Ten in 1990, the CIC invited Pennsylvania State University to join the consortium.[4] The University of Nebraska–Lincoln also joined the consortium in 2011 following the school's admittance to the Big Ten. [5]
[edit] Pervasiveness and influence
CIC universities confer, on average, 15% of all Ph.D. degrees awarded annually in the United States.
CIC members engage in $6 billion in funded research, receiving some 12 percent of the total federal research funds awarded annually (18 percent of the National Science Foundation total, and 15.7 percent of the USDA total).
Collectively, CIC members employ more than 29,000 full-time faculty members and enroll approximately 400,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
CIC member libraries own more book volumes (more than 80 million volumes) than the 10 campuses of the University of California system (34 million) and the Ivy League (64 million).
[edit] Collaboration
The CIC's collaborative efforts span the academic enterprise of its members, including (but not limited to):
- cooperative purchasing
- course sharing
- professional development programs
- library resources
- information technology
- study abroad
- diversity initiatives for students and faculty
- faculty and staff networking
[edit] Recent Initiatives
On June 6, 2007, the CIC announced a new partnership with Google. An explicit goal of the project is that of offering a public, shared digital repository of all the open access content. The University of Michigan, which has developed its MBooks platform for its own digitized books, will serve as the central repository for the CIC project.
[edit] References
- ^ "CIC Home Page". Committee on Institutional Cooperation. http://www.cic.net/Home.aspx. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ "Association of American Universities - Member Institutions and Years of Admission". Association of American Universities. 2009. http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ Wells, Herman B. (1967). A Case Study on Interinstitutional Cooperation. Educational Record
- ^ The Daily Collegian, July 16, 1990. [1] "Board of Trustees Briefs." State College, Pa.
- ^ "NU jumps at Big 10 research invite". Omaha World-Herald. June 17, 2010. http://www.omaha.com/article/20100617/NEWS01/706179910#nu-jumps-at-big-10-research-invite. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
