Move money. Athletic competition in the Big Ten begins in the 2014–15 academic year. ¶ University officials have made a strong case for the academic, athletic and financial benefits, and they hope you’ll keep rooting for the Terps. ¶ But maybe you haven’t heard the whole story. And maybe you still have questions about what this change means to Maryland. We’ve got answers.
What Can the CIC Do for UMD? It’s not all about the sports. Maryland’s about to be welcomed into the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the premier consortium for top-tier research universities. The university will soon get connected to a big array of unique resources and opportunities: New research partnerships
CIC institutions pool their resources in areas such as traumatic brain injury, international public policy and information technology. The combined research strengths of the CIC, which brings in about $9 billion a year in external funding, will help Maryland secure large federal grants that require involvement by multiple institutions. Library resource sharing
Maryland will have easy access to a combined collection of more
than 80 million books, with millions more digitized, thanks to a CIC-Google partnership. Combined buying power saves those libraries millions of dollars on databases. Faculty professional development
The CIC offers career boosters such as the Academic Leadership Program for those interested in deanships or department head positions.
Greater networking opportunities
The committee organizes activities for nearly 100 different peer groups, including finance officers, student government association leaders, study abroad directors and federal relations teams, which meet monthly in D.C.
times faster than commercial Internet connections. More study abroad
Access to big data, faster
The Alliance for Expanded Study in Overseas Programs (AESOP) means expanded opportunities for Maryland students, including semester- and yearlong programs in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
The CIC’s dedicated fiber optic network allows the transmission of large data sets used in weather and climate prediction, astrophysics and bioinformatics up to 100
Students will be able to choose from more than 100 less-commonly taught languages, which
Expansion of language study
include government-designated critical languages like Pashto and Uzbek, Native American languages and heritage languages such as Vietnamese and Hindi. Many courses are offered through videoconferencing. Group purchasing discounts
The combined purchasing power of CIC institutions produced $6 million in savings in 2011. These commodities and services include everything from routers to lab supplies to travelers’ health insurance.
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