History of CIC
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation was established by the presidents of the Big Ten Conference members in 1958 as the athletic league's academic counterpart. An invitation extended to the University of Chicago, one of the founding members of the Big Ten who withdrew from the conference in 1946, was accepted.
Following its admittance to the Big Ten in 1990, the CIC invited Pennsylvania State University to join the consortium.
The history of CIC as written by CIC founder Herman Wells, Indiana University president from 1938 to 1962, published in the Fall 1967 issue of EDUCATIONAL RECORD, a publication of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.