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WADR: Big Ten Academic Alliance
Posted on: March 6, 2020 at 19:58:32 CT
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In 1958, the Big Ten schools formed the Committee on Institutional Cooperation ("CIC") as an academic counterpart to the Big Ten athletic conference.
The CIC served as a vehicle for the Big Ten schools to conduct and cooperate in joint academic efforts, primarily research. The CIC became an "800 pound gorilla" in the academic research world.
During the 1980 and 1990's there were a substantial number of Mizzou faculty, administrators and alums who saw a move to the Big Ten conference and a membership in the CIC as a major plus for both Tiger athletics and academics.
Several years ago, the CIC was renamed the Big Ten Academic Alliance and it is still one of the heavyweight organizations in the academic/researach world. The SEC has a similar organization, but it is a pale imitation.
There are folks who will tell you that when congress enacted Medicaid with its requirement for substantial funding by the individual states that the hand writing was on the wall that public funding for universities, including Mizzou, would decline and alternative funding sources would have to be found. This subject was discussed on this board at the time.
There are also folks who will tell you that Mizzou opted to meet its funding needs by increasing enrollment (Mizzou stopped raising admission standards) and student tuition and fees. And the federal student loan programs came into existence and/or were expanded about that time.
Essentially, Mizzou moved away from a concept it had generally pursued since the 1960's of becoming a "destination campus", i.e. the location of high quality graduate and professional programs with a very high quality but relatively small under graduate population. It is place Mizzou adopted the mission of providing a "good education" to all Missouri citizens.
The SEC offered Mizzou a full share of conference revenue from day one. The B1G reportedly offered a 50% share for five years, the same deal offered to Nebraska. Deaton and Aldon opted for the SEC.
It is entirely accurate to say that were a lot of Mizzou folks for whom football was and is not the number one priority and many of those folks preferred and still prefer the B1G option.
Finally, the B!G owns 50% of the B1G network. If memory serves, Fox owns the other 50a%, and the B1G network has been consistently funding somewhat larger distributions to B!G members than the SECN has to the SEC members.
The CIC served as a vehicle for the Big Ten schools to conduct and cooperate in joint academic efforts, primarily research. The CIC became an "800 pound gorilla" in the academic research world.
During the 1980 and 1990's there were a substantial number of Mizzou faculty, administrators and alums who saw a move to the Big Ten conference and a membership in the CIC as a major plus for both Tiger athletics and academics.
Several years ago, the CIC was renamed the Big Ten Academic Alliance and it is still one of the heavyweight organizations in the academic/researach world. The SEC has a similar organization, but it is a pale imitation.
There are folks who will tell you that when congress enacted Medicaid with its requirement for substantial funding by the individual states that the hand writing was on the wall that public funding for universities, including Mizzou, would decline and alternative funding sources would have to be found. This subject was discussed on this board at the time.
There are also folks who will tell you that Mizzou opted to meet its funding needs by increasing enrollment (Mizzou stopped raising admission standards) and student tuition and fees. And the federal student loan programs came into existence and/or were expanded about that time.
Essentially, Mizzou moved away from a concept it had generally pursued since the 1960's of becoming a "destination campus", i.e. the location of high quality graduate and professional programs with a very high quality but relatively small under graduate population. It is place Mizzou adopted the mission of providing a "good education" to all Missouri citizens.
The SEC offered Mizzou a full share of conference revenue from day one. The B1G reportedly offered a 50% share for five years, the same deal offered to Nebraska. Deaton and Aldon opted for the SEC.
It is entirely accurate to say that were a lot of Mizzou folks for whom football was and is not the number one priority and many of those folks preferred and still prefer the B1G option.
Finally, the B!G owns 50% of the B1G network. If memory serves, Fox owns the other 50a%, and the B1G network has been consistently funding somewhat larger distributions to B!G members than the SECN has to the SEC members.
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