Football vs. North Dakota

Ronnie Green Author

09/06/2022 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the first two weeks of fall semester and the high level of engagement of students on campus. He also talks about record graduation classes the past few years and several other points of pride for the university.

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[00:00:00.180]Welcome back, "Countdown to kickoff".
[00:00:01.380]Huskers and the Fighting Hawks of North Dakota today,
[00:00:03.780]the home opener for the Big Red here this afternoon
[00:00:06.420]as we do each and every week a chance
[00:00:07.860]to catch up with the chancellor
[00:00:08.910]of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:11.490]I'm excited, I know you're excited
[00:00:13.530]to be back at Memorial Stadium.
[00:00:15.210]Absolutely, nothing like the start of the school year.
[00:00:17.820]Nothing like the start of football season,
[00:00:19.680]the first home game opener for us at home this year
[00:00:23.790]and for the fans to be back in Lincoln,
[00:00:26.400]for the stadium to be full,
[00:00:27.870]for the excitement that we know is in the air
[00:00:29.940]around the start of the home football season,
[00:00:33.150]just real special day in Husker Nation.
[00:00:35.580]Great to see everyone here
[00:00:37.560]and looking forward to the next four games
[00:00:39.930]that we have here at home
[00:00:41.520]between now and the first part of October.
[00:00:43.020]Yeah, we've traveled enough for a while
[00:00:44.220]after the big trip across the pond.
[00:00:46.590]Well, already two weeks of the semester in the books,
[00:00:49.440]and I know it was a little odd
[00:00:50.820]for you last week being in Ireland,
[00:00:52.170]you weren't here for the first week of classes
[00:00:53.700]but two weeks for the academic year.
[00:00:55.650]I know you're excited for the academic year going.
[00:00:57.780]Absolutely, we've been through interesting,
[00:01:01.140]you know, few last couple of years.
[00:01:03.090]And this is the first time
[00:01:04.920]that we've really felt fully back,
[00:01:07.170]fully kind of back to normal.
[00:01:09.840]In my mind, we're in the endemic phase of this pandemic,
[00:01:12.390]whatever anybody else says, it's kind of where we are.
[00:01:15.000]And to have our students back in force
[00:01:18.330]and fully engaged, and our faculty
[00:01:20.100]and staff back fully engaged.
[00:01:22.170]We had freshman convocation, freshman run through the tunnel
[00:01:25.110]and take their picture in the big end on the stadium
[00:01:28.290]in the field, Friday before we went to Dublin,
[00:01:31.950]before classes started.
[00:01:33.720]I have never seen our freshmen as engaged
[00:01:37.470]as they were that night, right.
[00:01:39.420]We had a big barbecue for 'em
[00:01:41.070]and just the level of engagement
[00:01:43.770]and the excitement that they have
[00:01:45.390]for being at the university was palpable.
[00:01:48.180]There's no other way to describe it.
[00:01:49.770]So great to be back.
[00:01:51.454]We were coming back off of some record graduations
[00:01:54.461]that have been great for us.
[00:01:56.760]And I think we're looking at a really great year ahead
[00:01:59.670]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:02:01.290]I know you always say your favorite time
[00:02:02.730]of year is when school starts
[00:02:03.960]and when you're at those three graduations.
[00:02:05.790]You had the August one just a couple of weeks ago
[00:02:08.250]and it seems like we keep setting record numbers
[00:02:10.800]with graduates, is that right?
[00:02:11.999]Absolutely.
[00:02:13.290]You know, in May we celebrated
[00:02:15.090]our largest graduating May class in the history of UNL.
[00:02:19.470]Three of the last four years
[00:02:21.150]had been record graduating classes
[00:02:23.070]for us across the entire year,
[00:02:25.140]that August, December, and May combined commencements.
[00:02:29.820]This year over 5,700 new graduates, the past academic year,
[00:02:34.170]of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:02:36.270]And again, one of the top two in our history.
[00:02:39.750]And all of that during the time
[00:02:41.550]that we had this pandemic around us.
[00:02:43.950]It's just absolutely phenomenal for us to see.
[00:02:47.550]I'm very proud of those new graduates,
[00:02:49.290]proud of what they're doing.
[00:02:50.820]They're going into a hot job market, obviously.
[00:02:53.940]We haven't seen like this in quite a while.
[00:02:56.880]I'm proud of the fact that we're graduating workers
[00:03:00.930]in very high demand fields across the institution.
[00:03:04.230]Our School of Computing is comparing more graduates
[00:03:07.620]in that area than ever before in our history
[00:03:11.070]in computing science and data applications.
[00:03:13.410]Engineering is graduating more than we ever have before.
[00:03:17.460]We're preparing most of the teachers, the lawyers,
[00:03:21.240]the pre-medical students, in the state of Nebraska.
[00:03:25.290]So just very, very proud of those graduates
[00:03:28.500]and those record classes that we have experienced.
[00:03:31.260]We also are very proud of the fact
[00:03:32.940]that our research program continues to grow.
[00:03:36.120]We are the research intensive university
[00:03:38.460]in the state of Nebraska, the only what was called R1,
[00:03:41.430]research intensive university.
[00:03:43.800]This past year, just a few months ago,
[00:03:46.800]we announced that our physics faculty
[00:03:49.620]took over the leadership of the Hadron Super Collider
[00:03:52.350]in Switzerland for all efforts of the US
[00:03:55.050]in relation to that Super Collider,
[00:03:57.210]took it over from Princeton University,
[00:03:59.940]the largest grant in history for us in the research space.
[00:04:03.900]So I'm very, very proud of what's happening
[00:04:05.820]in our research community
[00:04:08.550]and as always continuing to lead
[00:04:10.710]in the ag arena around the world in our research efforts.
[00:04:15.990]And then of course, the engagement,
[00:04:17.520]that third part and important part
[00:04:19.170]of our land grant mission,
[00:04:21.060]where we continue to be engaged
[00:04:22.680]in all 93 counties across the state
[00:04:25.260]and in research and extension centers across the state.
[00:04:28.800]We are considered one of the very top
[00:04:31.020]extension programs in the country.
[00:04:33.030]The university of Nebraska continues to be seen
[00:04:35.370]as a national leader in that arena
[00:04:38.220]and including in that, 4-H,
[00:04:40.710]which of course is really hot right now
[00:04:42.510]because State Fair is on, literally as we speak here,
[00:04:46.950]this weekend in Grand Island.
[00:04:49.290]And in 4-H, we continue to be the leader nationally
[00:04:53.130]where we have more students enrolled in 4-H
[00:04:56.130]that are age eligible than any other state
[00:04:58.350]in the United States.
[00:04:59.310]One in three Nebraska's young people
[00:05:02.100]are involved in 4-H that are age eligible.
[00:05:04.440]So just so much happening,
[00:05:06.660]the land grant university here
[00:05:08.490]at the university of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:05:10.230]Oh my goodness, fantastic!
[00:05:11.520]Great update on all of that.
[00:05:13.200]And we wish everybody that's into their school year,
[00:05:15.240]best of luck throughout the coming months.
[00:05:17.250]And we'll get more updates each week from the chancellor.
[00:05:19.200]Busy day here for the network!
[00:05:21.420]Football here at 2:40 with North Dakota.
[00:05:23.910]Volleyball's gonna play tonight.
[00:05:25.080]Against the Husker alum is Kayla Banwarth
[00:05:27.223]and Ole Miss brought her team back.
[00:05:28.898]Yeah, yeah, John's got so many stars out
[00:05:33.450]in the volleyball world as we know and follow.
[00:05:35.760]And it's great to have Kayla back here in town
[00:05:38.580]and bringing her team in to play the Lady Huskers.
[00:05:41.460]And of course, they're off to a great start
[00:05:43.170]and are looking like that Omaha trip
[00:05:46.159]in the end of the year might be a very good one for us.
[00:05:49.140]Good place for you to break your kilt out.
[00:05:50.400]Yeah, go Big Red!
[00:05:51.690]There you go. (laughing) Yeah, Rod agreeing with us
[00:05:53.370]here on "Countdown to kickoff".
[00:05:54.870]All right, when we come back,
[00:05:55.703]Matt Coatney will check out the Big Ten.
[00:05:57.750]The Big Ten blitz is straight ahead.

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