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.

Contents 1 Member Universities 2 Pervasiveness and Influence 3 Recent Initiatives 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Member Universities

The CIC is comprised of "12 world-class research institutions." These members are the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference plus the University of Chicago, which was a founding member of the Big Ten, but withdrew following World War II after deciding to de-emphasize athletics.

CIC Member Universities:

• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois
• Indiana University
• University of Iowa
• University of Michigan
• Michigan State University
• University of Minnesota
• Northwestern University
• The Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

[edit] 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.

[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.

v • d • e Committee on Institutional Cooperation University of Chicago • University of Illinois • Indiana University • University of Iowa • University of Michigan • Michigan State University • University of Minnesota • Northwestern University • The Ohio State University • Pennsylvania State University • Purdue University • University of Wisconsin–Madison

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Committee on Institutional Cooperation