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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 427705, member: 430"] [SIZE=6][B]History of CIC[/B][/SIZE] The Committee on Institutional Cooperation was established by the presidents of the [URL='http://www.bigten.org/index-main.html'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Big Ten Conference[/COLOR][/U][/URL] members in 1958 as the [B][SIZE=7]athletic league's academic counterpart.[/SIZE][/B] [B]An invitation extended to the University of Chicago, one of the founding members of the Big Ten who withdrew from the conference in 1946, was accepted.[/B] Following its admittance to the Big Ten in 1990, the CIC invited the Pennsylvania State University to join the consortium. University of Nebraska-Lincoln joined the Big Ten in 2011, and the CIC extended an invitation that culminated in UN-L's admittance to the consortium on July 1, 2011. [/QUOTE]