Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H. Smart and representatives from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and University of Wisconsin gathered at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel to set policies aimed at regulating intercollegiate athletics. Northwestern University, one of just two full members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students (the other is the University of Nebraska - Lincoln), is the lone private university among Big Ten membership (the University of Chicago, a private university, left the conference in 1946). Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, with campuses in Chicago, Illinois, and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs/facilities in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California. Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.
Northwestern University is the only private university of the Big Ten Conference since 1968.
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Claim: Northwestern University is the only private university of the Big Ten Conference since 1968.

Evidence: Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H. Smart and representatives from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and University of Wisconsin gathered at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel to set policies aimed at regulating intercollegiate athletics. Northwestern University, one of just two full members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students (the other is the University of Nebraska - Lincoln), is the lone private university among Big Ten membership (the University of Chicago, a private university, left the conference in 1946). Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, with campuses in Chicago, Illinois, and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs/facilities in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California. Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.

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Claim: Northwestern University is the only private university of the Big Ten Conference since 1968.

Evidence: Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H. Smart and representatives from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and University of Wisconsin gathered at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel to set policies aimed at regulating intercollegiate athletics. Northwestern University, one of just two full members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students (the other is the University of Nebraska - Lincoln), is the lone private university among Big Ten membership (the University of Chicago, a private university, left the conference in 1946). Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, with campuses in Chicago, Illinois, and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs/facilities in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California. Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.

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