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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 1216651" data-attributes="member: 2572"><p>The University of Chicago withdrew from the Big Ten in 1946. They are not a Big Ten school in any way. They do have some academic cooperation with the Big Ten through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation but this is by no means any form of Big Ten membership. The CIC overlaps with the Big Ten but is not the same thing. I would not call The University of Chicago a "nominal member" of the Big Ten but a full member of the CIC. Even if the University of Chicago decided to be a Division 1A sports institution this would in no way guarantee Big Ten membership. Currently IUPUI has many fully integrated departments with its Big Ten Parent Schools (IU and Purdue) including the IU School of Medicine. Its Faculty and Students are considered full IU and Purdue members with access to most Big Ten academic membership benefits. It however has its own sports program and conference memberships. IUPUI is just as much if not more a "nominal member" of the Big Ten but it is equally Not a Member in the same way. Just because IUPUI has Academic Programs that are included as part of the CIC and/or Big Ten does not make it a Big Ten School, the same goes for the University of Chicago.</p></blockquote><p></p>