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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WVUALLEN" data-source="post: 132085249" data-attributes="member: 1112294">ISU removes itself from AAU status.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/faculty-ask-why-iowa-state-left-the-aau-and-what-it-means/[/URL]Peterson, who has been at ISU since 2009, called the departure “the academic equivalent of leaving the Big 12” — a Power Five athletic conference — for the Mid-American Conference.               “Even if nothing else changes,” he said, “that sort of says who we think we are and who we think our peers are. And it says we no longer think our peers are the AAU schools.”That Leaves Kansas and Texas as the only Big 12 AAU members. Texas and OU are leaving the Big 12 for the SEC. That will leave just Kansas as the only AAU member.</blockquote>