ISU leaves AAU

[Tornado man]

Sounds like there was a pretty uncomfortable faculty meeting that brought up some hard questions. One of which was the lack of trust many of them feel they can have in Wintersteen and other administrators who, just months ago, were talking up ISU's academic credentials and how impressive and important its AAU membership is to that. Now all of a sudden, it's not important. Not a good look, could've been handled much better. And before you start banging on a hok chiming in on this I have one daughter currently attending ISU and another who will in fall 2023, so yes I have a vested interest in this.

Still remember the day that the Regents announced the list of the final 4 candidates to replace Leath, with (1) Wintersteen on it, and (2) Wickert not on it.
You could have heard a pin drop in the engineering, chemistry, and physics buildings...

 

[CycloneErik]

Still remember the day that the Regents announced the list of the final 4 candidates to replace Leath, with (1) Wintersteen on it, and (2) Wickert not on it.
You could have heard a pin drop in the engineering, chemistry, and physics buildings...

Wickert wouldn't be any better.
I'll always have fond memories of his immediately contentious attitude during a faculty orientation when a new hire from a Colorado school asked a simple, very basic mask question.

 

[laminak]

Before this one gets shut down too (no idea why the others were, even the cave ones), it sounds like AAU doesn't credit USDA research so that hurts us. Also cuts to education from politicians have not helped either.

The Iowa Senate Majority Leader, who is an ISU alum and played on the football team, is often brought up and rumored to be the reason for the shutdowns.

 

[cysmiley]

Can remember when I was there in the 60's/70's, one of the reasons given that Iowa State could not be competitive in Athletics was that the engineering, ag and physical sciences curricula was difficult to attract athletes on a broad scale, and Home Ec College was difficult to recruit athletes to their majors (guess because of the label Home Ec), which were generally more conducive to their career paths, things related to kinesiology, coaching and teaching. We all know about Kolar, Allen etc. but I wonder how many majors are in the human sciences realm in our major athletic programs vis a vis Engineering and Ag.

Of course, maybe that isn't as important now, as back then.

 

[diaclone]

I loved that ISU is an AAU school. It’s only 134k per year right?

That’s a pittance. Just another reason to not donate again to my school.