Talk:Association of American Universities

message: I only see 13 universities listed as having joined in 1900: Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Penn, Yale, and Clark.
I think you're right, but the AAU webpage has 14 written all over it. I'll change it to thirteen and inquire. Madmaxmarchhare 07:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Joined in 1900?

message: Dartmouth is missing, which surprizes me.  Could that be the missing 14th school?  Athaler 14:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dartmouth

message: I can find references to Catholic University up to the year 2000 on the AAU's site, but no mention of when or why it left the association. --Beefyt 02:11, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the legwork! Madmaxmarchhare 20:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  When and why did Catholic U. leave? 

message: not a member? strange!!
:It could very well be invited one of these days.. there were and are a lot of high-calibre universities that aren't in the list, and they seem to get around to them in time. Madmaxmarchhare 17:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  georgia tech 

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replies: text: *I added an explanation/rationale. Streltzer (talk) 02:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Association of American Universities seal.png

message: the first sentence in this section isn't - a sentence that is. it's a disaster! totally incomprehensible.a set of parentheses is opened and doesn't close for about 50 words and/or numbers. by this point the reader is either totally confused or has lost interest.Toyokuni3 (talk) 21:51, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

message: An editor has insisted that the article note that no members of the AAU are in Latin America, despite efforts to include Latin American institutions since the founding of the AAU.  I can't seem to find any mention of these efforts in the source cited as supporting the claim.  Can someone else please tell me where it is?  Thanks!  ElKevbo (talk) 06:10, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't find it. Frankly, it doesn't seem to be relevant, anyhow. I'm sure a lot of schools from different states have been lobbying to get their schools in too. Why does it matter? I don't think it does.. Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 08:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin American membership

message: The table says that UChicago has an ABET accredited engineering program, but if I'm not mistaken, I don't think UChicago has any ABET-accredited programs? The only engineering/applied science disciplines that they offer are computer science and molecular engineering, but according to the ABET program search tool thing, neither of them are ABET-accredited. Popopopper (talk) 01:16, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  UChicago ABET accredited? 

message: Halwes has begun an edit war to add a new section to this article listing the "longest-standing members" of this institution. First, this list duplicates what is already in the "Membership" section; if you really want to see which institutions are oldest, you can easily sort the membership table using the "Established" column. Second, the information is unnecessary, especially in a stand-alone section. Why do readers need to know the oldest institutions that are part of this organization? Third, the title "longest-standing" is misleading because it implies that the institutions in the list have been AAU members for longer than other institutions and that is clearly not true when all of the founding members (that are still part of the AAU) have been members for the same length of time.
It's inappropriate to begin an edit war, particularly without even bothering to open a discussion. It's especially inappropriate when the information being added in the edit war duplicates what's already in the article, is unnecessary, and is misleading. ElKevbo (talk) 07:40, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit warring to add new "Longest-standing members" section 

message: An unregistered editor is insisting that this article include the athletic conference to the table listing current members. They have not provided any reason for adding this information and have begun an edit war to retain the information. This information simply isn't relevant to the topic of this article. ElKevbo (talk) 03:32, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally correct. If he continues, disciplinary action should be taken.Vgy7ujm (talk) 18:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding conferences seems pointless. This is a research and graduate education club. I added land-grant status which is much more relevant. 24.85.234.209 (talk) 03:01, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

text: Athletics is irrelevant when it comes to AAU. Relevant data points include members of the national academies, faculty awards, etc. This can be determined but it is a painstaking process. 24.85.234.209 (talk) 00:58, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

text: Just to add to the consensus. Athletics are not relevant to this strictly Academic organization. Grey Wanderer (talk) 21:52, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insistence on adding athletic conference to table