The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, established in 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957) January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the... 1958, is a consortium of twelve universities (the eleven members of the The Big Ten Conference is a college athletic conference located in the northern United States, stretching from Iowa in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference competes in the NCAAs Division I-A. Since 1990, there have actually been eleven schools in the conference: University of Illinois... Big Ten Conference and the The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. Just over a century old, it includes a number of academic units of prominent stature. It is highly regarded as a teaching institution; the last National Research Council peer review ranked the University of Chicago at... University of Chicago) committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities and sharing resources. Its programs and activities extend to all aspects of university activity except intercollegiate athletics. These endeavors are organized to augment and complement institutional programs without supplanting them or reducing their individual importance. Affiliated membership has also been extended to the The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois. With 36,000 students, UIC is the largest university in the Chicago area. According to statistics from the UIC web site, 1 in 57 adult Chicagoans, 1 in 10 college graduates in Chicago, and... University of Illinois at Chicago, the The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a public university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin school system. Mitchell Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee History Milwaukee State Normal School The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) originally started as the Milwaukee State Normal School... University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) is a regional university campus located in Indianapolis, Indiana. As a joint campus of Indiana University and Purdue University, IUPUI offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees from both universities. It is also the campus that hosts the Indiana... IUPUI, (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis). [1]  (http://www.wacacademics.org/about/approvedproposal.htm)

The CIC is governed by the Chief Academic Officers of the member universities who are known as the CIC "Members." A headquarters staff of 13, located in A view of Champaign from above (see wider view). Champaign is a city located in Champaign County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 67,518. The mayor is Gerald Schweighart, whose term will expire in 2007. Champaign is adjacent to the neighboring city... Champaign, Illinois, administers the CIC programs.

CIC universities confer, on average, 15% of all Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor, or in non-Anglo-Saxon (e.g. German and Scandinavian) usage Doctor philosophiæ, Dr. phil.) was originally a degree granted by a university to a learned individual who had achieved the approval of his peers and... Ph.D. degrees awarded annually in the United States. Collectively, the CIC member universities engage in nearly $2 billion worth of externally funded research annually, employ more than 33,000 full-time faculty members, and enroll nearly one-half million undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

External links

• The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/index.shtml)
• Additional CIC Information (http://www.wacacademics.org/about/approvedproposal.htm)