AAU News - Nebraska to report system-wide research expenditures as one combined figure beginning with FY2023

[knapplc]

This is a direct attempt to regain AAU accreditation. 

 

It's the same university, same research, same expenditures. But we'll be reporting it in a different way, which should help regain AAU membership.

 

New research reporting model will elevate University’s national competitiveness

The University of Nebraska will be instantly more competitive with the nation’s leading research institutions under a new reporting model announced today by Interim President Chris Kabourek that will unify the research achievements of NU’s flagship university and its medical center.

 

Beginning with the FY2023 National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey – the national gold standard for research rankings – the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Office of the President will begin reporting their federally funded research expenditures as one combined figure. That survey will be released in November.

 

Until now, Nebraska’s institutions have reported research figures separately – making Nebraska unlike virtually every other institution in the Big Ten and in the Association of American Universities, the coalition of the nation’s most prestigious research universities that Nebraska aims to be readmitted to. Among the 18 universities in the expanding Big Ten Conference, all but Nebraska are AAU members.

 

The National Science Foundation approved Nebraska’s proposal to report research as one “University of Nebraska” figure after reviewing Nebraska’s commitment to making structural changes that will align it with the rest of the Big Ten and AAU.

 

 

 

The current HERD survey ranks UNMC 120th in the nation in federally funded research and development. UNL is No. 122, second to last in the Big Ten and the only Big Ten school other than Oregon that is not in the top 60.

 

Reported together, along with the Office of the President, which includes system-wide entities like the National Strategic Research Institute, Nebraska vaults to approximately 64th in the country – closer to the pack of its Big Ten peers.

[Mavric]

Kind of begs the question why this hasn't been done before now.

 

But, at any rate, this should clear the path for our return to the Big XII....

[hskrpwr13]

How does that work for UNO and UNK if UNL gets all the financial credit?

[knapplc]

3 hours ago, hskrpwr13 said:

How does that work for UNO and UNK if UNL gets all the financial credit?

 

Sometimes tigers eat their young.

[winner00]

Had anybody on here seriously heard of the AAU before we got kicked out of it something like 9 months after the Big 10 invite?

Heck, even now, has anybody except for Nebraska fans (and academic professionals) heard of the AAU?

 

 

[winner00]

I wonder what would happened if we had gotten kicked out of the AAU before the Big 10 invite.

 

I wonder if 

1. We would have gotten the Big 10 invite

2. If we don't get the Big 10 invite (with Missouri probably getting the invite instead), would the Big 12 have managed to stay together to this very day, minus just Missouri and Colorado. (And possibly just minus Colorado if Rutgers got the BIG invite rather than Missouri.) I can't help but suspect that Nebraska's exit made a long term impact on the Big 12's prestige and income that permanently de-stablized the conference, and helped lead to aTm's exit the following year and Texas and OU's exit many years later.

 

Of course, there's also the worst case scenario for Nebraska, which is that Texas, OU and aTm end up leaving anyway, and we get stuck in some husk of a conference that invites teams like UCF and Cinncinatti.