The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), also known as the "Academic Big Ten", was established in 1958 and is an academic consortium of primarily Midwestern universities in the Big Ten Conference.
CIC members have committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities and sharing resources. CIC programs and activities extend to all aspects of university activity except intercollegiate athletics. These endeavors are organized to augment and complement institutional programs without supplanting them or reducing their individual importance.
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Membership and Governance
While the CIC notes that it comprises "12 world-class research institutions," the membership page makes clear that membership is held by 13 universities: the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference, former Big Ten member University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago [1][2]. One resolution to the "12 vs. 13" confusion would be if one of the "12 research institutions" were the University of Illinois system; however, this cannot be so since the University of Illinois at Springfield is not a CIC member.
Further complicating the counting of member institutions is that the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee participates in the CIC Traveling Scholar Program[3].
The CIC is governed by the thirteen Chief Academic Officers of the member universities who are known as the CIC "Members." A headquarters staff of 16, located in Champaign, Illinois, administers the CIC programs.
Pervasiveness and Influence
CIC universities confer, on average, 15% of all Ph.D. degrees awarded annually in the United States. Collectively, the CIC member universities engage in $5.6 billion in externally funded research annually, employ more than 33,000 full-time faculty members, and enroll nearly one-half million undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
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.
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References
- ^ "CIC About Page". http://www.cic.net/Home/AboutCIC.aspx. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "CIC Members". http://www.cic.net/Home/AboutCIC/CICUniversities.aspx. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Traveling Scholar Program FAW". http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses/TScholar/FAQ.aspx. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
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