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The Association of American Universities ( AAU) is an organization of American research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Founded in 1900, it consists of 69 public and private universities in the United States as well as two universities in Canada. AAU membership is by invitation only and ...
AAU History. Fourteen of the nation’s leading Ph.D.-granting institutions founded the Association of American Universities (AAU) in February 1900, at a two-day conference at the University of Chicago. At the time American institutions received little respect from the major universities of Europe, and U.S. students were flocking overseas for ...
Barbara R. Snyder is president of the Association of American Universities. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising. More about President Snyder
The Association of American Universities (AAU) was founded in February 1900, at a two-day conference that 14 of the nation's leading Ph.D.-granting institutions held at the University of Chicago. The idea for the conference came from University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who had been proposing the formation of something like ...
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The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a nonprofit organization that represents 65 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. The AAU was founded in 1900 and serves as a platform for its member institutions to collaborate and advocate for policies and funding that support research and innovation in higher ...
Liberal Education, Inclusion, and Collaboration: A Century of Commitment*. When 150 college executives gathered in Chicago in 1915 to create the Association of American Colleges (AAC), they chose inclusiveness and interhelpfulness as twin themes to animate their organization. These concepts sensibly unified small colleges in the early twentieth ...
