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Tech simply doesn't have the money to...

compete with a majority of the AAU schools that can get Tech's award winning researchers and professors to work there. UVA can afford to pay top researchers big bucks. Tech can hold on to a few but most of them go where they can earn a larger salary. Professor salary is one of the AAU's requirements. Most of the AAU member institutions have large graduate schools. Graduate shool students make up 37% of UNC-CH's and 32% of UVA's total student enrollment while only 17% of Tech's. ** Edited by Old Line Hokie at 7/8/2022, 1:06:04 PM
Posted: 07/08/2022 at 01:05 PM ET
(In response to this post by Vippie1)

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Why hasn't Tech joined the AAU? This has been a lingering issue for years,
Rochester Hokie 07/08/22 10:26 AM ET
Membership is subjective
mrcaniac 07/08/22 02:41 PM ET
It's heavily based on Med School research, we are young in that department.
Stech 07/08/22 01:49 PM ET
If the numbers work for VT, lack of AAU membership won’t be an issue**
marcbvtgm 07/08/22 12:36 PM ET
ummm
Vippie1 07/08/22 10:33 AM ET
Biggest hurdle is faculty research
El Paso Hokie 07/08/22 06:30 PM ET
Tech simply doesn't have the money to...
Old Line Hokie 07/08/22 01:05 PM ET
Our endowment is larger than a number of AAU schools-Oregon, Utah, Maryland
soflahokie 07/08/22 11:58 AM ET
Agree with you completely but you’ll never convince some …
fsghokie 07/08/22 04:03 PM ET
It always breaks down into an endowment -measuring contest, doesn't it. TIC**
MP4VT2004 07/08/22 12:43 PM ET
^^^^^ Trying to break the tension here ^^^^^**
santafe 07/08/22 12:46 PM ET
So it’s like The Who’s Who scam. Pay & we put you in the book. What a joke **
3TechFanz 07/08/22 11:20 AM ET
But that's what the B1X looks for in candidates**
EDGEMAN 07/08/22 12:16 PM ET
Sort of. ND won’t be blackballed. And neither would VT I suspect.**
marcbvtgm 07/08/22 12:38 PM ET