Men's basketball vs. Iowa

Ronnie Green Author

02/10/2020 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the upcoming Charter Day and State of Our University address, an opportunity to talk about the university's momentum and the launch of the N2025 Strategic Plan to pursue the N150 Vision. He also talked about the Athletic Department and its ongoing position of strength in operating without subsidies from the university or state budget.

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[00:00:00.000](guitar music)
[00:00:01.010]Greg Sharpe back at our Husker's Sports Network City.
[00:00:02.940]It's halftime at the Huskers match up
[00:00:04.300]with the Iowa Hawkeyes.
[00:00:05.310]I'm delighted to be joined by the Chancellor
[00:00:06.690]of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:08.950]Life on the road, the Big Ten, has been so tough this year.
[00:00:12.280]Home court advantage is great for us at PBA,
[00:00:14.300]but it has been hard to win on the road.
[00:00:16.390]It has been.
[00:00:17.223]Of course, this team is growing and learning
[00:00:19.420]and I think Coach Hoiberg has talked a lot about
[00:00:22.830]the whole objective this year is growth in the team
[00:00:27.330]and a different style of play,
[00:00:29.120]and I think people are enjoying watching
[00:00:31.470]that new style of play and seeing that emerge
[00:00:34.450]and, ya know, looking forward to a great night here,
[00:00:36.869]hopefully in that curve for our mens' basketball team.
[00:00:40.750]People are really encouraged and excited for that.
[00:00:42.420]They're also excited 'cause Valentine's Day
[00:00:44.610]is about a week away.
[00:00:45.670]People making some plans for that,
[00:00:47.240]but you've got some big plans for February 14th.
[00:00:50.350]Tell us about this.
[00:00:51.500]Well, ya know, Greg, we started last year
[00:00:54.670]when we were going through the whole 150th anniversary
[00:00:59.020]for the university of kind of tying back
[00:01:02.000]our annual checkup day,
[00:01:03.760]as I like to think of it, to our anniversary date,
[00:01:07.240]to our birthday date for the university,
[00:01:09.560]which happens to be February the 15th.
[00:01:12.645]It'll be our 151st anniversary this year,
[00:01:15.120]and so we've moved what we call
[00:01:18.060]the state of our university
[00:01:19.780]annual kind of address and assessment
[00:01:21.680]of where we find ourselves
[00:01:23.170]as a university to that week.
[00:01:25.300]So on weeks where February 15th's a weekday,
[00:01:28.630]we'll do it on February 15th on our charter day.
[00:01:31.030]This year, that happens to be the day
[00:01:32.630]after Valentine's Day and is a Saturday.
[00:01:34.801]So Valentine's Day gets that honor this year,
[00:01:39.470]and we'll be having our
[00:01:40.750]state of our university address that morning.
[00:01:43.730]So coming up next Friday, we're looking forward
[00:01:46.100]to an opportunity to talk about
[00:01:48.530]the momentum of the university,
[00:01:50.500]where we find ourselves from the past year
[00:01:54.310]across all three of our mission areas.
[00:01:57.230]And we also are going to be talking about
[00:02:00.400]the launch of our N2025 strategic plan.
[00:02:04.870]We've been working on that for the best part
[00:02:07.240]of this last year.
[00:02:08.940]The year before that, we worked on the N150 vision.
[00:02:12.870]It was a longer range 25-year kind of vision
[00:02:15.930]for the university.
[00:02:16.830]It was part of our 150th anniversary year.
[00:02:20.230]So we're launching the first five-year plan
[00:02:22.770]of that vision, and we'll speak to that,
[00:02:26.380]both in terms of the student experience at Nebraska,
[00:02:29.940]and how we're envisioning
[00:02:31.450]that student experience to develop.
[00:02:34.470]Very heavily focused around the incorporation
[00:02:37.680]of experiential learning into that student experience
[00:02:41.640]over the next five years.
[00:02:43.394]Things like where every one of our graduates
[00:02:46.700]and their portfolio by 2025 will have
[00:02:50.770]direct internship experience
[00:02:53.270]direct experience in solving
[00:02:55.430]a community problem in Nebraska,
[00:02:57.890]direct research experience with our faculty,
[00:03:00.590]and direct international engagement and experience.
[00:03:03.780]And we're very excited about that.
[00:03:06.096]We think we will be the only institution
[00:03:09.040]in the Big Ten for that to be the case for our graduates,
[00:03:12.990]and excited about that and our plan
[00:03:14.620]along with growth with our research enterprise,
[00:03:16.670]growth of our faculty and staff,
[00:03:18.530]and growth of our engagement with the state of Nebraska.
[00:03:21.780]So excited about next Friday and having that conversation
[00:03:25.990]about where we are as a university and where we're headed
[00:03:28.760]with the N2025 plan.
[00:03:30.675]Fantastic.
[00:03:31.670]We know Nebraska's a special place,
[00:03:33.250]and one thing that's really unique about this
[00:03:35.150]is that we have an athletic department
[00:03:36.440]that runs in the black, which allows them some extra money
[00:03:39.470]to give back to the university.
[00:03:41.010]That seems pretty rare to me.
[00:03:42.620]Well, ya know, we all know Husker Athletics
[00:03:45.260]is a big deal nationally,
[00:03:47.610]certainly a big deal in Nebraska and to our university
[00:03:50.387]and the legacy that it has in education here in the state,
[00:03:55.160]and, ya know, this past year over $130 million budget
[00:03:59.240]in Husker Athletics.
[00:04:01.530]So it is a big budget, but it's a very successful budget,
[00:04:06.900]where we are one of a handful
[00:04:09.620]of NCAA Division I Athletic Programs in the country
[00:04:14.070]that operates in the black,
[00:04:16.050]where, ya know, we spend less than we bring in,
[00:04:19.470]which is always the way Nebraskans like
[00:04:21.680]to think about life, right,
[00:04:23.340]and I like to think about life.
[00:04:25.870]And so that in of itself is a real accomplishment
[00:04:29.400]and no subsidization of athletics by students
[00:04:33.080]at the university or by the state of Nebraska
[00:04:35.550]or by funds that are put into athletics.
[00:04:37.640]It's totally self-supporting.
[00:04:39.550]It supports all of our over 600 student athletes
[00:04:43.260]across all of those sports,
[00:04:45.520]all of the operations of the athletics department
[00:04:48.290]and then still has money that is left at the end of the day
[00:04:51.950]that comes back to the university,
[00:04:54.930]where this past year, over $10 million in support
[00:04:59.810]directly back to the academic enterprise of the university
[00:05:03.630]in cash support.
[00:05:06.368]So $5 million in a new Huskers' scholars athletics program--
[00:05:10.480]or athletics scholarships for nonstudent athletes,
[00:05:14.320]for general students at the university,
[00:05:16.410]Nebraska resident students,
[00:05:18.900]who are benefiting from those over 3,000 scholarships
[00:05:23.140]that come out of that support from Husker Athletics
[00:05:25.830]and an additional set of funds that support recruiting,
[00:05:29.470]support admissions, support communications
[00:05:32.450]across the university that's so important to us.
[00:05:35.060]And that's just the cash amount.
[00:05:38.270]There's about another over $15 million dollars
[00:05:41.100]in direct tuition, scholarship support
[00:05:44.735]for our student athletes that come to the university
[00:05:47.990]as well as contracts and services the university provides
[00:05:52.440]for Husker Athletics.
[00:05:53.780]So we feel very, very fortunate or very proud
[00:05:57.810]of the fact that across the NCAA, we're looked at
[00:06:01.500]as the bellwether of the way to run an athletics program
[00:06:05.850]and do that with sound fiscal integrity
[00:06:09.010]and no support from the institution or the state.
[00:06:12.900]So very, very proud of that.
[00:06:14.650]I was at the NCAA last week, at the convention,
[00:06:18.120]and it's kind of a nice feeling to kind of
[00:06:20.130]puff your chest out a little bit with that N on it,
[00:06:22.726]and people recognize that for the history
[00:06:26.620]here at the University of Nebraska.
[00:06:28.320]Something for all of us to be proud of.
[00:06:29.858]Good to see ya.
[00:06:30.800]Thanks for updating us.
[00:06:31.800]Yup.
[00:06:32.633]And look forward to a good outcome here tonight,
[00:06:35.100]and go Big Red.
[00:06:36.490]Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:06:37.740]And we got more comin' up next.

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