re: aTm / Mizzou fans - Explain to us the tangible benefits of the AAU

The SEC works together academically through the SECAC (SEC Academic Consortium). The Universities cooperate on grants, promote cooperation between Universities, cooperate in study abroad and can even borrow each others lab space when necessary to enable the capacity to compete for some grants. Their materials say they are entering phase II which presumably will ramp up the effort to attract more research dollars.

Presumably having more AAU members will enhance the SECAC and help generate more research dollars.

It was modeled after the Big Ten's Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC).

This is mostly about athletics but then again it is also about academics.