Association of American Universities

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Association of American Universities

Formation	1900
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Location	United States Canada
Membership	62
President	Robert M. Berdahl
Website	aau.edu

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.

Contents 1 Organization 1.1 Presidents 1.2 Statistics 2 Membership 2.1 Admission 2.2 Public universities (34) 2.3 Private universities (26) 2.4 Canadian universities (2) 2.5 Former members 3 Notes and references 4 External links

[edit] Organization

AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies, in order to promote strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. The AAU holds two annual meetings. The fall meeting is conducted on a member campus while the spring meeting is held in the headquarters city of Washington, D.C.

[edit] Presidents

Executive	Term
Thomas A. Bartlett	1977 – 1982
Robert M. Rosenzweig	1983 – 1993
Cornelius J. Pings	1993 – 1998
Nils Hasselmo	July 1, 1998 – April, 2006
Robert M. Berdahl	May, 2006 – present

[edit] Statistics

As of 2004, AAU members accounted for 58%^[1] of US universities' research grants and contract income and 52% of all doctorates awarded in the United States. Since 1999, 43% of all Nobel Prize winners and 74% of winners at U.S. institutions have been affiliated with an AAU university. Approximately two-thirds of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006 Class of Fellows are affiliated with an AAU university. The faculties at AAU universities include 2,993 members of the National Academies (82% of all members): the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine (2004).^[2]

• Undergraduate students: 1,044,759; 7% nationally
• Undergraduate degrees awarded: 235,328; 17% nationally
• Graduate students: 418,066; 20% nationally
• Master’s awarded: 106,971; 19% nationally
• Professional Degrees: 20,859; 25% nationally
• Doctorates awarded: 22,747; 52% nationally
• Postdoctoral Fellows: 30,430; 67% nationally
• Students Studying Abroad: 57,205
• National Merit/Achievement Scholars (2004): 5,434; 63% nationally
• Faculty: approximately 72,000

[edit] Membership

[edit] Admission

AAU membership is by invitation only, which requires an affirmative vote of three-fourths of current members. Invitations are considered periodically, based in part on an assessment of the breadth and quality of university programs of research and graduate education, as well as undergraduate education. Founding members are bolded, and year of admission is shown in parentheses.

[edit] Public universities (34)

University of Arizona (1985) University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1989) University of California, Berkeley (1900) University of California, Davis (1996) University of California, Irvine (1996) University of California, Los Angeles (1974) University of California, San Diego (1982) University of California, Santa Barbara (1995) University of Colorado at Boulder (1966) University of Florida (1985) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1908) Indiana University Bloomington (1909) University of Iowa (1909) Iowa State University (1958) University of Kansas (1909) University of Maryland, College Park (1969) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1900)

Michigan State University (1964) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908) University of Missouri (1908) University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1909) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922) Ohio State University (1916) University of Oregon (1969) Pennsylvania State University (1958) University of Pittsburgh (1974) Purdue University (1958) Stony Brook University (2001) University of Texas at Austin (1929) Texas A&M University (2001) University of Virginia (1904) University of Washington (1950) University of Wisconsin–Madison (1900)

[edit] Private universities (26)

Brandeis University (1985) Brown University (1933) California Institute of Technology (1934) Carnegie Mellon University (1982) Case Western Reserve University (1969) Columbia University (1900) Cornell University (1900) Duke University (1938) Emory University (1995) Harvard University (1900) Johns Hopkins University (1900) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934) New York University (1950)

Northwestern University (1917) Princeton University (1900) Rice University (1985) Stanford University (1900) Syracuse University (1966) Tulane University (1958) University of Chicago (1900) University of Pennsylvania (1900) University of Rochester (1941) University of Southern California (1969) Vanderbilt University (1950) Washington University in St. Louis (1923) Yale University (1900)

[edit] Canadian universities (2)

• McGill University (1926)
• University of Toronto (1926)

[edit] Former members

• The Catholic University of America (1900-2002)

Departed as a result of "institutional emphases and energies" [1] that differed from the other AAU members.

• Clark University (1900-1999)

Departed because its "goals diverged from the strong research orientation of other AAU institutions".[2]

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Association of American Universities

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