From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Human services is an interdisciplinary discipline with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were grouped with the four newcomers in the Big XII South, while the remaining 6 teams of the Big 8 (Kansas, Kansas State, Colorado, Nebraska, Mizzou and Iowa State) formed the Big XII North.
The Big 12 was formerly composed of 12 schools, hence its name: it was formed in 1996 when four schools from the collapsing Southwest Conference (Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor) joined with the pre-existing Big Eight Conference.