雪城被aau（北美顶尖大学联盟）除名了， University of Nebraska at Lincoln 更是悲剧地被投票开除，雪城应该是自动离开

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A year ago, the Association of American Universities quietly revised the criteria it uses to decide which research institutions deserve a place in the highly selective group. The impact of those changes is now being felt -- like a punch in the gut -- by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Syracuse University, which are leaving the association.

The group's members have voted to drop Nebraska against its will, marking the first time that the association has formally dumped one of its own. Syracuse, by contrast, after trying to persuade AAU members that the New York university's strengths continue to place it among the nation's best, is in "discussions about withdrawing" from the association, Chancellor Nancy Cantor confirmed Sunday.

Officials at both institutions complain that the metrics the group uses to assess its members define the contributions of high-quality research universities too narrowly, focusing excessively on biomedical research and the volume of federally supported research. To Nebraska officials, that means undervaluing the university's land-grant mission, and in the eyes of administrators at Syracuse, giving inadequate weight to interdisciplinary and urban-focused research to which few federal funds flow.

The AAU is made up of 62 public and private research universities in the United States and Canada, and membership in the group has historically been much sought by institutions as a sign of prestige, as well as quality.

A year ago, said Robert M. Berdahl, AAU's president, the association -- facing criticism from some would-be members that there were stronger universities outside AAU than some inside it -- decided for the first time that in reviewing its members, it would compare them to non-member institutions as well as to members. The group also declared, for the first time, that "we no longer presume that continuation [in the association] is a given," Berdahl said in an interview Sunday night. "The notion that once you’re in, you’re in forever, is no longer the operative assumption."

Nebraska is only the third institution to leave the AAU in its 111-year history and the first to force a vote from the association's members on whether it would remain affiliated. When Clark University left the AAU in 1999, and the Catholic University of America in 2002, both said that they were leaving voluntarily because their missions no longer aligned with the AAU's focus on research (although there was much speculation that they had been pushed).

isn

从名单来看下一个要悲剧的估计是Iowa state....

mnb123

syracuse也被开除了？之前clark被开除了，看来aau要大清洗了

JASO

why

webber89

雪城的学术实力下滑很厉害的，他家商科都掉到70了

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The University of Nebraska at Lincoln wasn't the only institution whose membership in the Association of American Universities was at risk this spring.

Syracuse University, a member since 1966, was also placed under review last fall. But last month, as the review committee's work was concluding and it became clear that Syracuse wouldn't meet the association's revised membership criteria, university officials decided that they would leave the organization voluntarily, rather than face a vote like Nebraska's, and notified the leadership of their intentions.

On Sunday, in an interview with The Chronicle, Syracuse's chancellor, Nancy Cantor, confirmed that the university will withdraw from AAU membership in the coming months.

"We respect what the AAU is doing and where they are going," Ms. Cantor said. "If that's what they are focused on, so be it. We have momentum and we're proud of what we're doing, and that won't be affected by leaving the AAU."

Ms. Cantor called the revised membership criteria that the AAU adopted last spring "narrow," and said they rely on data in which federal research dollars in medicine and the sciences, in particular, were favored over other factors that she believes account for a broad-based research university tackling pressing problems.

雪城是自愿离开，很识大体

figoliuxi

其实这些是一个愿打，一个愿挨的，都写得很清楚both said that they were leaving voluntarily because their missions no longer aligned with the AAU's focus on research。除名不代表不好，上榜也不一定好，米国的事情是这样的，你加这个组织，就得为组织做贡献，就像入X，当有些学校意识到对自己造成牵绊的时候，便可能退出呗

hankaversion89

被aau退出，能够说明点问题的，毕竟aau已经涵盖了所有优秀的school了，哎只能说syracuse学术研究出了问题

qq123321

雪城就是个大悲剧

firstviolin

雪城理工科太一般了，文科可能还好些，感觉现在就是理工当道的社会，哪个大学理工科强，他的排名就起来了，MBA项目排名也会高一些。不过雪城在AAU里确实有点勉强，在世界大学排名里只能排在3，4百名，相当于美国的100多名的学校。不是AAU成员也没什么大不了的，只要能坚持自己的特色把教学质量和学生就业搞好了，一样会有好的声誉。