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The AAU website stresses quality but is quantity a big factor, such as total dollars? It seems to be. If it's strictly about quality, I don't see why UCONN would not receive an invite. If it includes quantity, then UCONN is handicapped by its location in the Northeast.
Breadth. https://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10972
It's both. But the weight is on quantity for a reason. Because the AAU wants to see breadth across many programs and departments. That being said, if you're a small institution, and you have breadth, then that's a credit to you. Look at U. Rochester. A tiny school of under 4k students. They have departments across the humanities, sciences, engineering and business. That's why the AAU feels comfortable in measuring their actual research number according to the number of faculty on staff. There are schools out there that don't have the same breadth, but they have just as much research $$ per faculty member. The AAU doesn't give as much credit to those schools.