(04-07-2015 02:44 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(04-07-2015 11:58 AM)ken d Wrote:  Why would they share grant money?

there is no "grant money" to share

the CIC has no funding and no money to share the CIC is merely a means to COOPERATE to try and obtain outside grants.....something that ALL universities are capable of and do often the CIC just makes the accounting of that process easier

so they would not be "sharing" anything because there is nothing to "share" and in fact if more schools were in that system it would most likely be slightly even easier

but again schools in different conferences and schools in and out of the CIC cooperate all the time like on the GMT and the 30m Telescopes (two competing proposals that have universities in the same conference on different proposals as well as schools in many different conferences in the same proposal)

If you look at what the CIC does, it has very little, if anything, to do with grants. It's mostly about sharing IT and library resources, and combining purchasing power. To say it's a factor in athletic affiliations makes no sense.