<p>^ The spin will be interesting to watch… sorta like “Little Sisters of the poor”. Karma…“It’s a good thing!” ™</p>
<p>Ohio State - Tats and Sweatervests
Michigan - Hiring Michigan Men - Like former Ohio State Coach Bo Schembechler
Indiana - Coaches who wipe their behinds and show the results to their players as a way to exhibit how his team is playing - and throwing chairs onto the court.
U of Chicago - Leaving and being better off and maintaining that massive endowment.
Michigan State - Not getting into Michigan
Northwestern - Not getting into U of Chicago
Iowa - Floods…o’ Corn
UIUC - Having no shot at getting into either Chicago or Northwestern - but looking forward to washing it down during the Unofficial
Nebraska - A promissory note to develop academic programs
Minnesota - State of the Art Stadiums sans the talent
Penn State - A Country for Old Men
Purdue - Pur who?</p>
<p>Missed one.</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi,</p>
<p>I personally believe that Brady Hoke represents Michigan well!! ;-)</p>
<p>Michigan Fans… brace yourselves for… Hoke-A-Mania!!! lol</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Brady Hoke is Bringing Hoke-A-Mania to Michigan!](<a href=“Brady Hoke is Bringing Hoke-A-Mania to Michigan! - YouTube”>Brady Hoke is Bringing Hoke-A-Mania to Michigan! - YouTube)</p>
<p>( Didn’t notice I was the OP of this thread, some things I have posted on college confidential in my past I can nearly fall out of my chair reading. Ah.)</p>
<p>“Purdue - Pur who?”</p>
<p>I always heard it called, “Pur don’t” ;-)</p>
<p>“^ I agree, Gee’s track record is stellar. Berkeley should dump the uncharasmatic Birgeneau and hire Gee.”</p>
<p>Perhaps they should just promote recent hire and alumnus x Michigan governor Jenny Grandmole to university president. Look what she did to the state of Michigan. She can do the same thing to Berkeley given a few years.</p>
<p>UNL to welcome new engineering dean</p>
<p>By ZACH PLUHACEK / Lincoln Journal Star JournalStar.com | Posted: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:22 am</p>
<p>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new engineering dean is inheriting a college that ranks 95th in the country, but is joining a conference that is “probably the elite in engineering,” with eight top-30 programs.</p>
<p>Timothy Wei doesn’t see the Cornhuskers supplanting the universities of Illinois (No. 5) or Michigan (No. 9) any time soon, but he does see room for growth at Nebraska.</p>
<p>“We gotta at least beat (No. 52) Michigan State,” Wei said Monday. “Football, I assume that’s gonna happen.”</p>
<p>UNL announced Monday that Wei, 52, will leave his position as a department head at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., to take over as dean of the College of Engineering here effective June 1, pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.</p>
<p>U.S. News and World Report rankings aside, Wei sees UNL as well-situated to join the Big Ten in the coming academic year. That includes continuing the college’s commitment to undergraduate education, he said.</p>
<p>At the graduate level, he hopes to expand upon an idea that’s been instrumental in his own research into fluid dynamics, or the study of fluids in motion. He calls it “coupling fundamental fluid dynamics experiments with critical technologies of socio-technological importance.”</p>
<p>For non-engineers, that translates to “science with purpose.”</p>
<p>“Yes, we want to help build the fundamental knowledge base that future generations will build on, but we also want to solve problems,” Wei said in a phone interview.</p>
<p>Such work also can help at a time when the university is tightening its belt by catching the eyes of donors, research organizations, government agencies and commercial partners.</p>
<p>“They’ll be motivated to partner with you if you show them that what you’re doing is relevant,” he said.</p>
<p>Wei’s past research projects have included working with U.S. Olympic and championship swim teams to perfect their swimmers’ strokes.</p>
<p>Before Rensselaer, he worked at Rutgers University in New Jersey as professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Michigan, his master’s from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and his bachelor’s from Cornell University in New York.</p>
<p>“Dr. Wei is an ideal match for UNL’s collaborative leadership culture and for the college’s high aspirations,” Ellen Weissinger, the university’s senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said in a news release. "He’s also a Michigan graduate with a keen understanding of what it will mean for us to build a Big Ten engineering school.</p>
<p>“The campus community, and all Nebraskans, will be proud to have Tim as our engineering dean.”</p>
<p>Source: [UNL</a> to welcome new engineering dean](<a href=“http://journalstar.com/news/local/education/article_d2977f02-b0cb-5a53-ab08-6f1ea27e7622.html]UNL”>http://journalstar.com/news/local/education/article_d2977f02-b0cb-5a53-ab08-6f1ea27e7622.html)</p>
<p>[Michigan’s</a> Brady Hoke Installs “Beat Ohio” Countdown Clock | LostLettermen.com](<a href=“http://www.lostlettermen.com/brady-hoke-osu-countdown/]Michigan’s”>http://www.lostlettermen.com/brady-hoke-osu-countdown/)</p>
<p>Long live THE rivalry!! :)</p>
<p>Huskers booted from AAU membership. Considred a must have for B10 membership. Should B10 now give Nu the boot too??</p>
<p>[University</a> Of Nebraska-Lincoln Dismissed From Association Of American Universities](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Dismissed From Association Of American Universities | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>^^ wowwww… That IS some news!! Thanks for sharing, barrons!!</p>
<p>Yes, please replace Nebraska (‘N’ for knowledge…) with either Pitt or Rutgers!! lol</p>
<p>Nebraska loses AAU status</p>
<p>April, 29, 2011
By Adam Rittenberg
ESPN - Big Ten Blog</p>
<p>During the Big Ten’s expansion study, league officials often listed membership in the American Association of Universities as a trait they’d like in any new member. All the current Big Ten members are part of the AAU, and the league had hoped to keep it that way.</p>
<p>The exception of course would be Notre Dame, a non-AAU institution the Big Ten twice pursued during the past 15 years.</p>
<p>Nebraska fit the bill when it was admitted to the Big Ten on June 11. But not any more.</p>
<p>The AAU recently voted to terminate Nebraska’s membership in the organization after the school failed to meet certain requirements. Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman emailed faculty and staff Friday to inform them about the vote.</p>
<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star:</p>
<pre><code>“We have known we were at risk of this for ten years, and successfully fought off a similar threat in 2000,” Perlman said. “I had hoped our extraordinary accomplishments and steep trajectory would have made us less vulnerable, but the AAU’s approach to the review made this result inevitable.”
UNL joined the AAU in 1909. Perlman said UNL has ranked at the bottom of the AAU’s members for more than a decade based on the group’s ranking system, which ranks all research universities. That ranking system consists of four criteria: research expenditures, National Academy members, faculty awards (from a specified list) and citations.
Those criteria are weighted based on the number of tenure-track faculty at a particular university. Based on those criteria, a number of non-AAU institutions ranked higher than 15 AAU institutions, including UNL, Perlman said.
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<p>Perlman told the Journal Star that he didn’t think the loss of AAU membership would affect Nebraska’s admission into the Big Ten, which officially takes place July 1.</p>
<p>But here’s what Perlman said about the AAU and the Big Ten shortly after Nebraska was admitted to the league.</p>
<pre><code>“All the Big Ten schools are AAU members. I doubt that our application would’ve been accepted had we not been a member of the organization.”
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<p>The Huskers’ nationally known football program might have had a little to do with it, too.</p>
<p>I’m waiting to hear back from the Big Ten for any comment on the Nebraska/AAU situation. Commissioner Jim Delany, speaking at last year’s spring meetings as expansion was heating up, had this to say about the Big Ten and its AAU ties: “AAU membership is a part of who we are. It’s an important part of who we are.”</p>
<p>While this shouldn’t impact Nebraska’s transition to the league or its involvement in the league’s internal academic consortium (Committee on Institutional Cooperation), it is, as Perlman told the Journal Star, “in the short-term, an embarrassment.”</p>
<p>Here’s the Big Ten’s statement from Associate Commissioner Jennifer Heppel regarding Nebraska:</p>
<pre><code>“Nebraska is a substantial academic institution. It was when its application to join the Big Ten Conference was unanimously approved by the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors and it is today. The Big Ten Conference does not have control over other organizations’ actions. We’re excited for July 1st.”
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<p>Source: [Nebraska</a> loses AAU status - Big Ten Blog - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/26078/nebraska-loses-aau-status]Nebraska”>Nebraska loses AAU status - ESPN - Big Ten Blog- ESPN)</p>
<p>I knew it was a mistake to admit Nebraska to the B10. This is embarrassing.</p>
<p>There are 67 members in the AAU. Over 2/3rds voted to oust. With the 12 Big Ten members voting to keep them, that means at least 80% of unbiased members of the AAU wanted them out.</p>
<p>I wonder how many Big 12 universities were unbiased when they voted them out?! hehe!</p>
<p>Not to worry folks, Nebraska will definitely improve academically and reputationally as a result of joining the Big 10.</p>
<p>Michigan has the best engineering school in BigTen, Illinois might have a little bit better EE program.</p>
<p>“I wonder how many Big 12 universities were unbiased when they voted them out?! hehe!”</p>
<p>UT is the only member of the AAU from the B12.</p>
<p>I thought Colorado and TAMU were too.</p>
<p>^ ^ “UT is the only member of the AAU from the B12.”</p>
<p>AAU Members from the Big12:
Colorado 1966
Iowa St 1958
Kansas 1909
Missouri 1908
Texas 1929
TAMU 2001</p>
<p>It’s interesting that the AAU put out what could be considered the first list of “America’s Best Colleges”.</p>
<p>From the AAU website:
“Starting in 1914 and for many years afterwards, the association functioned in no small part as an accreditation agency. Almost as soon as AAU was founded, German universities began using membership in AAU as their measure of quality for graduate school admissions. Recognizing that this was unfair to many fine U.S. colleges and universities, and not wishing to expand significantly AAU‟s membership, the association took on the task of providing foreign universities with a list of colleges whose graduates could be considered adequately prepared to undertake graduate study. This list was known as the “AAU Accepted List,” and the association certified not only its own member institutions but also other institutions throughout the nation. The work, handled by the AAU graduate deans, included extensive fact-finding and site visits.”</p>