Editing Big Ten Conference (section)

==Commissioners==
The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1922 "to study athletic problems of the various member universities and assist in enforcing the eligibility rules which govern Big Ten athletics."<ref name="traditions"/>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Commissioners of the Big Ten Conference
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Years
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
!scope="row"| [[John L. Griffith]]
| 1922–1944
| Died in office
|-
!scope="row"| [[Kenneth Wilson (athlete)|Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson]]
| 1945–1961
| Retired
|-
!scope="row"| [[William R. Reed]]
| 1961–1971
| Died in office
|-
!scope="row"| [[Wayne Duke]]
| 1971–1989
| Retired
|-
!scope="row"| [[Jim Delany]]
| 1989–2020
| Retired
|-
!scope="row"| [[Kevin Warren]]
| 2020–2023
| Resigned to become president of the [[Chicago Bears]]
|-
!scope="row"| [[Tony Petitti]]
| 2023–present
|
|}

All Big Ten members are members of the [[Big Ten Academic Alliance]], formerly known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses.aspx |title=Sharing Access to Courses |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=April 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429222156/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Library/ReciprocalBorrowing.aspx |title=Reciprocal Library Borrowing – Introduction |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602044613/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Library/ReciprocalBorrowing.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/PurchasingLicensing.aspx |title=Purchasing and Licensing |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602044504/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/PurchasingLicensing.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[University of Chicago]], a former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016.<ref name="btaa_chicago">{{cite web|url=http://www.btaa.org/about/expansion/name-change-faq|title=Name Change – FAQ|publisher=Big Ten Academic Alliance|access-date=June 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/06/30/big-tens-academic-division-changes-name|title=Big Ten's Academic Division Changes Name |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=June 30, 2016 |access-date=June 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=6480763 |title=Jim Delany: Nebraska the Packers of Big Ten – ESPN |publisher=ESPN |date=May 5, 2011 |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3943 |title=CoSIDA Academic All-Americans – Huskers.com – Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site |publisher=Huskers.com |date=June 21, 2012 |access-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924041824/http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3943 |url-status=dead }}</ref>