Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities (short: AAU) is an organization of leading North American research universities, which works for the promotion of academic research and teaching in North America.

History

Since the founding of Johns Hopkins University in 1876, American universities had focused on the German model and were based on the embossed von Humboldt ideal of the unity of research and teaching. American students traveled to Europe in order to make her doctor and there the opinion of the U.S. college degree was not exactly flattering. The problem in America was that the higher school or university degrees were not centrally controlled. So you could take some "schools" or " colleges " who called themselves universities, obtaining a doctorate. This practice hurt the reputation of demanding universities, so that they were planning a change.

The Minister Benjamin I. Wheeler of the University of California, Charles Eliot of Harvard, William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago, Seth Low of Columbia and Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins invited in February 1900, the 14 leading universities to a conference in Chicago one. The aim of this meeting, which led to the founding of the Association of American Universities, was according to the invitation letter:

In addition to the 14 founding members of a university can only be a member of the AAU, as it is the basis of merit appointed by the Company to do so. By 1909, eight other universities were included, so that so that each half was private or public.

The organization provides a forum for its members to develop institutional and national education policies and implement, as well as to discuss issues in the field of academic research and teaching.

Members

The AAU today belong to 59 U.S. and 2 Canadian universities. On the admission of new members approximately every three years is advised. Universities can only join by invitation of the organization. At least three quarters of the current members agree to the admission of a new university. Only universities with excellence in research and teaching are included.

Members of the Association of American Universities and the year of admission:

State universities (34 )

• University of Arizona (1985 )
• 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)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
• University of Florida (1985 )
• 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 )
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989 )
• Stony Brook University (2001)
• Ohio State University ( 1916)
• University of Oregon (1969 )
• Pennsylvania State University ( 1958)
• University of Pittsburgh (1974 )
• Purdue University ( 1958)
• Texas A & M University (2001)
• University of Virginia (1904 )
• University of Washington (1950 )
• University of Wisconsin -Madison (1900)

Private universities (25 )

• Brandeis University ( 1985)
• Brown University (1933 )
• California Institute of Technology (1934 )
• Carnegie Mellon University ( 1982)
• Case Western Reserve University (1969 )
• University of Chicago (1900)
• 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 )
• University of Pennsylvania ( 1900)
• Princeton University ( 1900)
• Rice University (1985 )
• University of Rochester (1941 )
• University of Southern California ( 1969)
• Stanford University ( 1900)
• Tulane University ( 1958)
• Vanderbilt University ( 1950)
• Washington University in St. Louis ( 1923)
• Yale University ( 1900)

Canadian Universities ( 2)

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

Former members

• The Catholic University of America (1900-2002)
• Clark University (1900-1999)
• University of Nebraska- Lincoln (1909-2011)
• Syracuse University (1966-2011)