nbhoya
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Post by nbhoya on Oct 18, 2019 9:52:40 GMT -5
Maybe it's been discussed before. Just seems odd.
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njhoya78
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Post by njhoya78 on Oct 19, 2019 7:55:17 GMT -5
When we heard it was a pre-condition of membership in the Big Ten Conference, we decided not to bother.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Oct 19, 2019 8:25:24 GMT -5
Georgetown is not a major research university in the sciences. "AAU member universities—60 in the United States and two in Canada—are on the leading edge of innovation, scholarship, and solutions that contribute to scientific progress, economic development, security, and well-being. The 60 AAU universities in the United States award nearly one-half of all U.S. doctoral degrees and 55 percent of those in the sciences and engineering." www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 19, 2019 14:35:27 GMT -5
Oh, I thought this thread was about the Amateur Athletic Union.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Oct 21, 2019 19:31:06 GMT -5
Georgetown is not a major research university in the sciences. "AAU member universities—60 in the United States and two in Canada—are on the leading edge of innovation, scholarship, and solutions that contribute to scientific progress, economic development, security, and well-being. The 60 AAU universities in the United States award nearly one-half of all U.S. doctoral degrees and 55 percent of those in the sciences and engineering." www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-membersGU should easily have enough research horsepower to be a part of this organization. In fact, if one looks at the conspicuous absentees, Boston College and Notre Dame should have enough research expenditure to be included. Much like the educational establishment had a lot to explain the mid 1960s when only Catholic U., Georgetown and Fordham had Phi Beta Kappa chapters as late as 1967, I think maybe the AAU has some explaining to do right now. (This is also one of those factors that could affect the reputation score in the US News Rating). Is there some reason the major Catholic research universities are excluded?
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Oct 21, 2019 19:40:16 GMT -5
Or being more open minded, is there some reason we don't choose to participate in this organization? I know our Carnegie rating is in the highest university group.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Oct 21, 2019 21:16:19 GMT -5
Or being more open minded, is there some reason we don't choose to participate in this organization? I know our Carnegie rating is in the highest university group. It's not an issue of choosing not to participate. AAU is by invitation only. AAU members are those with significant investments and funding in the physical and applied sciences. Liberal arts schools like Georgetown and Dartmouth aren't in the discussion when it comes to the federal grants, corporate philanthropy, or institutional commitments in these areas. A school like Johns Hopkins receives $2.5 billion in federal R&D. Georgetown gets just $212 million, or 102nd nationwide, almost all of it medical. Stanford graduated 763 Ph.D's in 2016. Georgetown is 139th on that list, graduating just 2% of its degree recipients a year as Ph.D.'s. The applied sciences is an area which Georgetown has not invested in and that alone is a disqualifier when it comes to the AAU, which places a premium on funded scientific research. That GU is even in the top 100 is a function of research at the hospital, but it's not a university that drives significant finding dollars elsewhere in the pipeline.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Dec 16, 2023 22:18:10 GMT -5
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