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Originally Posted by vailpass
All B10 are AAU, NU was AAU at the time of admission. Pisses me off they lost it. Interesting how it happened....
After endorsing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's entrance into the Big Ten Conference -- in part because of its academic strength -- leaders at the universities of Wisconsin and Michigan apparently helped oust UNL from an elite academic group, according to documents reviewed by the Journal Star.
Nebraska failed to garner the 21 votes it needed last April to remain in the Association of American Universities, a confederation of more than 60 top research institutions that collectively nets more than half of all federal research funds and awards more than half of the doctoral degrees in the nation. It was confirmed that UNL fell three votes short.
Emails and letters obtained by the Journal Star after a series of open-records requests indicate that Wisconsin and Michigan did not support UNL during its turbulent and unsuccessful AAU membership review earlier this year....
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That's all fine, but it takes really poor performance to be booted from the AAU if you're a standing member. Nebraska knew this was coming. If it was about academics Missouri would be in the Big 10 now. It wasn't about academics at all.