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Message: [QUOTE="Moontan, post: 13513, member: 166"] This is what you made up: The AAU powers-that-be changed their desired membership profile. As was discussed at the time that this went down, Syracuse was a fringe institution at the time it joined. The new AAU targeted research profile (giving preference to medical and government sponsored research) meant that Syracuse was going to get the boot. The only options available were to leave, get the boot or start a medical school (preferably 10+ years earlier). Which would you have chosen? How would you have felt about a public expulsion (see Nebraska)? If your primary concern is the US News & World Report's ranking of Syracuse University then stick to that. A suggestion that the AAU departure might have affected that ranking is fine. FYI: I am not a university administrator. As a taxpayer, I find it refreshing that there are institutions that don't rely on public funding for nearly all of their research. [/QUOTE]