IANR All Hands Meeting - January 2016

Ronnie Green Author

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All Hands Meeting recorded January 11, 2016

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[00:00:07.435]Welcome again to our All Hands meeting
[00:00:10.400]for this spring semester for 2016
[00:00:13.742]for the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources.
[00:00:16.320]Glad to see so many of you here this afternoon.
[00:00:18.758]I was kidding Ron Yoder
[00:00:19.954]just as we were getting ready to start,
[00:00:22.403]10 minutes ago this room was completely empty.
[00:00:25.236](laughter)
[00:00:26.234]So either people are figuring out my schedule
[00:00:28.741]and the way I work it,
[00:00:30.161]expecting it to start about 10 minutes late or what,
[00:00:33.945]but glad to see you all here in the East Union,
[00:00:37.498]and I know we have a number of our colleagues
[00:00:40.017]joining us online, as we always do,
[00:00:42.560]to livestream these presentations,
[00:00:45.694]and folks from across the state,
[00:00:48.345]we know are joining us as well.
[00:00:50.737]Thank you for being here
[00:00:51.924]and for participating in the dialogue.
[00:00:54.775]Now what I have a goal of doing this afternoon,
[00:00:58.076]and I'm watching the clock directly in front of me,
[00:01:01.199]Jill Brown has a bet with me,
[00:01:03.555]whether I can get this done or not,
[00:01:05.459]and I'm gonna win this bet,
[00:01:07.816]that I hope to be done in less than an hour,
[00:01:11.113]so that we have the opportunity
[00:01:12.657]to have some dialogue and some questions
[00:01:15.478]at the end of the time this afternoon.
[00:01:18.937]I am going to take a little different approach
[00:01:21.410]to the All Hands presentation
[00:01:23.291]that we've been using for the last several.
[00:01:26.804]You'll recall that when we started these,
[00:01:30.854]now some I guess 11 times ago,
[00:01:34.769]this is our 11th one, first one in January of 2011,
[00:01:39.517]that we were at the very front end
[00:01:42.513]of what we then termed IANR to 2025.
[00:01:47.214]This idea and this concept,
[00:01:49.691]and this kind of big goal thinking
[00:01:52.500]of where the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources
[00:01:55.100]should be for the University of Nebraska,
[00:01:58.154]and a little bit about how we
[00:01:59.209]would go about getting there.
[00:02:02.389]That was a 15 year plan.
[00:02:05.584]So as you see on the slide in front of you today,
[00:02:08.764]what I'm gonna try to do in the next 45 minutes
[00:02:11.922]is to first capture for you where I think
[00:02:14.766]we've been in the last five years.
[00:02:17.819]What's magical about this is
[00:02:20.275]I went through my five year review
[00:02:22.769]as part of the normal administrative process
[00:02:25.474]for the university this past fall.
[00:02:28.690]So I did a lot of thinking about that
[00:02:30.965]during that five year review time.
[00:02:33.229]And it also gave me a chance
[00:02:34.935]to think about where we really were in this
[00:02:37.884]15 year journey of 2025, of IANR to 2025.
[00:02:43.145]So there's two distinct sections we'll cover this afternoon.
[00:02:46.890]That past five year period what the big picture has told us,
[00:02:51.290]where we've come in that last five year period.
[00:02:54.633]And then more importantly,
[00:02:56.130]I wanna peer into to the next five.
[00:02:58.789]And I wanna think about what the next
[00:03:01.088]five years of this journey will need to look like
[00:03:04.188]for us to achieve that IANR to 2025 plan
[00:03:07.844]that we laid out five years ago.
[00:03:09.903]So that's where we're headed this afternoon.
[00:03:12.318]And again, we hope to have time
[00:03:13.827]for a lot of dialogue at the end.
[00:03:16.904]I'm boiling down about an hour of slides into this slide.
[00:03:22.596]Because you've all kind of heard us talk a lot
[00:03:26.606]about what this slide says
[00:03:29.473]and why it's so important that our mission be
[00:03:33.409]that at this point in time,
[00:03:35.208]at this point in time in the university's history,
[00:03:37.924]this point in time of the way you look at the globe,
[00:03:40.304]you look at the world around us,
[00:03:41.988]both present and into the future,
[00:03:44.367]that there has never been a time
[00:03:45.865]that what we do is more important.
[00:03:49.370]Whether you think of whatever cut of that
[00:03:51.917]you fall into, whether it's the agricultural
[00:03:54.703]sciences side, the food sciences side,
[00:03:57.083]the environmental sciences side,
[00:03:59.242]the natural resources side,
[00:04:00.763]the human sciences side,
[00:04:02.760]what we do has never been more important
[00:04:05.279]in our history certainly.
[00:04:07.159]And I predict it will be that way
[00:04:09.551]for some decades to come
[00:04:11.559]when we look at what's out ahead of us.
[00:04:13.660]And there's a new piece of that
[00:04:15.332]that I added to this slide that you see in red.
[00:04:19.535]It's particularly important for Nebraska.
[00:04:23.126]And it's particularly important for where we are
[00:04:25.836]as an institution and where our state is,
[00:04:28.684]tied to the future and the longevity
[00:04:31.668]and the sustainability of these systems
[00:04:34.045]that we're so a key and a part of.
[00:04:37.087]So that's the big picture that we started from,
[00:04:40.430]in 2025 if you will, we changed a word or two
[00:04:43.727]here and there along the way.
[00:04:45.712]But that's still the journey that we're on,
[00:04:48.823]is framed by that big important, all-encompassing statement.
[00:04:54.431]Now what have we done in the last five years?
[00:04:56.379]Now I'm obviously cherry-picking here,
[00:04:59.316]so it's not meant to be all-inclusive,
[00:05:01.940]but hopefully to give you the big picture
[00:05:04.099]of where we find ourselves in 2016,
[00:05:08.232]five years into this journey.
[00:05:10.519]First thing I will tell you is that we have
[00:05:12.122]an immensely talented group of people.
[00:05:15.664]There are almost 2,000 people,
[00:05:17.754]this number fluctuates up and down a bit,
[00:05:20.203]but there are almost 2,000 people
[00:05:22.119]that are engaged in this institute.
[00:05:24.499]Not all of those full time.
[00:05:26.402]About 1650 or 60 of those are full time employees.
[00:05:31.035]The rest are part time, in some way shape or form,
[00:05:34.180]employees that make up our work force.
[00:05:36.596]And I'm very proud of the fact
[00:05:37.733]of how they're distributed, where they are in the state.
[00:05:41.994]How many of them are on the campus,
[00:05:43.781]how many of them are faculty,
[00:05:45.337]how many of them are non-faculty.
[00:05:47.392]The distribution, if you will,
[00:05:48.901]of that workforce that makes up who we are at IANR.
[00:05:53.189]And as you know, that number's been growing,
[00:05:55.929]continues to grow and you will see a lot of the detail
[00:05:58.889]behind what that growth has been over that last five years.
[00:06:04.160]As I have done in the last,
[00:06:06.563]probably majority of these All Hands sessions,
[00:06:09.303]I'm going to frame where we've been in the last five years
[00:06:12.065]within the context of the university's goals.
[00:06:15.003]These are the long term goals,
[00:06:17.418]if you think of five years kinda being a long term
[00:06:20.656]time horizon of the goals
[00:06:21.957]of the University Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:06:24.352]As a campus, they continue to be our goals.
[00:06:28.987]I will say, as I've been saying,
[00:06:30.293]I'll still say it for some time to come,
[00:06:32.697]that I think that the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources
[00:06:35.332]has led the university and led the campus
[00:06:38.350]in all of these goals.
[00:06:40.857]In every single one of them
[00:06:42.378]as you go down through the picture.
[00:06:44.177]So you know the goals well.
[00:06:46.035]I've showed you these data in the fall,
[00:06:48.612]beginning of the fall semester,
[00:06:50.376]where our enrollment goal has certainly
[00:06:52.815]clipped along at the stage
[00:06:54.177]that we would like to see it clip along.
[00:06:55.783]I'm going to give you some greater challenges
[00:06:58.059]associated with that when we look out
[00:06:59.975]at the next five years.
[00:07:01.681]But we can't not be very happy
[00:07:05.303]about the fact that in CASNR we've seen
[00:07:08.020]now 12 years of growth in our student population.
[00:07:12.164]And that growth's been very widespread
[00:07:14.196]across the college.
[00:07:15.554]It's not been in one spot or two spots.
[00:07:18.061]It's been pretty universally widespread across the college.
[00:07:21.614]We saw during that same time period of 12 years,
[00:07:25.282]significant growth in our partner in CEHS,
[00:07:28.308]in their undergraduate and graduate programs as well.
[00:07:32.175]So this enrollment growth has been a big deal for us.
[00:07:35.774]I'm often asked by a lot of folks,
[00:07:38.572]on the external side of the university in particular,
[00:07:42.054]how we've been able to finance, if you will,
[00:07:45.266]much of the growth that we've experienced in faculty.
[00:07:48.618]I will tell you that the biggest,
[00:07:50.197]single driver of that is this slide,
[00:07:53.413]is the enrollment growth piece of that picture.
[00:07:57.922]Because we're able to capitalize
[00:07:59.547]on that enrollment growth,
[00:08:02.100]and put it back into more people and more programs.
[00:08:05.632]I've showed you these data in the fall
[00:08:07.744]that showed that our current student population
[00:08:10.507]in CASNR is about 75% resident Nebraska students,
[00:08:14.269]about 25% roughly non-resident students,
[00:08:17.670]broken out into international and domestic,
[00:08:20.351]as you see there on the slide.
[00:08:22.650]And remember these numbers because
[00:08:24.310]I'll come back to them in the next five years
[00:08:26.922]and talk about where I see that growth needing to be
[00:08:30.161]out in the five years ahead of us.
[00:08:33.145]I also showed you this slide that reflects
[00:08:35.548]over that longer time horizon, going back to 2003,
[00:08:40.342]the percentage of the student body at UNL,
[00:08:43.407]made up of students studying in CASNR,
[00:08:45.728]all inclusive, undergrad and graduate student,
[00:08:48.480]professional students collectively
[00:08:51.301]that increased from between eight and 9%
[00:08:56.016]13 years ago up to this past fall
[00:08:58.925]where we were now bumping 14%
[00:09:00.841]of the student population at UNL.
[00:09:03.325]So that tells the story in and of itself
[00:09:06.042]relative to that growth continuing
[00:09:08.143]to be a bigger part of the university.
[00:09:10.639]And I will tell you, give you a little glimpse
[00:09:12.659]into this next five year period,
[00:09:14.586]I think that we need to hold that number
[00:09:16.583]potentially at 15%.
[00:09:19.741]So to be where we should be five years from now,
[00:09:23.449]whatever the university's enrollment is,
[00:09:26.711]that our programs should represent
[00:09:28.928]a minimum of 15% of that enrollment.
[00:09:31.516]So there's some continued growth that we'll expect to see.
[00:09:34.813]NCTA is seeing significant growth.
[00:09:36.753]I also showed this number to you,
[00:09:38.296]our colleagues out in Curtis,
[00:09:40.386]in the western part of the state in the two year program.
[00:09:43.033]Much of that growth occurring not
[00:09:45.854]in resident students on the campus,
[00:09:48.629]but occurring in terms of dual credit enrollment students,
[00:09:52.889]in high schools spread throughout the state.
[00:09:55.454]So continued enrollment there in the two year program.
[00:09:58.984]That second goal in terms of graduation rates
[00:10:03.163]and what we would like to see in graduation rates.
[00:10:06.069]Our current cohort at about 75% of the students
[00:10:08.983]who start as first time freshman here at the university
[00:10:12.582]graduated in six years from the university, from UNL.
[00:10:17.411]So we would continue to like to see that rate go up.
[00:10:21.494]The more important number there to me
[00:10:24.489]is the placement rate of our students,
[00:10:26.915]which continually exceeds over 90% at the day of graduation.
[00:10:31.895]Which is true largely nationally.
[00:10:34.570]You will hear that same statistic across a lot of programs
[00:10:37.670]agriculturally across the country in an area
[00:10:40.491]that I think we really excel in and very proud of.
[00:10:43.978]On the research side, big growth in research.
[00:10:48.127]This just reflects three years of data,
[00:10:50.402]from 12 through 14, the 15 year numbers
[00:10:52.886]are not closed, the books aren't closed on FY 15 yet,
[00:10:56.962]but I can tell you roughly what they are.
[00:10:59.817]This I showed you in the fall.
[00:11:01.924]If you add 15 numbers to that,
[00:11:03.967]sponsored activity in the institute
[00:11:05.662]was a little under 55 million dollars in external support.
[00:11:09.644]And proportionally the research expenditures
[00:11:12.441]we expect to be in the 135 to 137 million
[00:11:16.346]range when they're closed.
[00:11:18.413]Putting that on a per faculty FTE basis,
[00:11:22.696]you can see the progression there
[00:11:24.414]between 13 and 14 in particular.
[00:11:27.329]We will see another big jump between 14 and 15.
[00:11:31.450]When we look at current fiscal year data,
[00:11:34.154]we're now six months into FY 16,
[00:11:37.393]we're tracking to be above FY 15 again,
[00:11:41.015]in terms of sponsored research in particular,
[00:11:44.371]and we'll expect to see those numbers continue to go up.
[00:11:48.004]I showed you this graphic in the fall,
[00:11:50.690]and I think it tells the story very well.
[00:11:53.651]When you invest in people,
[00:11:55.091]you begin to see the results of that investment.
[00:11:58.411]And I think we've only just begun
[00:12:00.778]to see the results of that investment.
[00:12:03.577]So on the left-hand side is the institute,
[00:12:06.769]followed by the colleges and arts and sciences,
[00:12:08.592]engineering, education, and human sciences,
[00:12:10.693]and then kind of a smattering of the rest of the campus,
[00:12:13.630]through the right-hand side of the graphic.
[00:12:16.149]Then you can see over that last five years of time,
[00:12:19.690]the collective growth in research funding for IANR,
[00:12:25.279]which we're very proud of.
[00:12:26.777]And you'll also see that a big increased part of that
[00:12:30.392]is the red portion of that bar that is foundational support,
[00:12:36.092]philanthropic and foundational support.
[00:12:38.545]So the bottom baseline is federal,
[00:12:41.703]followed by foundation, followed by other support
[00:12:44.826]including industry support, followed by some state
[00:12:49.028]dollars in the top part of that graphic.
[00:12:51.780]So that trend is very good.
[00:12:53.498]We expect to continue to see that trend go up
[00:12:55.774]and we're very proud of that.
[00:12:57.259]You all know about the faculty growth
[00:12:58.919]that we've experienced and the number of new people
[00:13:01.856]that we've been able to bring on board.
[00:13:04.109]This is in tenure track faculty.
[00:13:06.198]I'll show you some data on non-tenure track faculty
[00:13:09.113]here in a few minutes.
[00:13:10.517]But from a tenure track faculty side,
[00:13:12.549]we've been very, very blessed
[00:13:14.116]to be able to bring on the number of people
[00:13:16.151]that we have been able to add to our faculty ranks.
[00:13:20.432]We showed you these data in the fall.
[00:13:22.468]They haven't changed significantly since then.
[00:13:25.289]But when we're done with this fiscal year
[00:13:27.657]and the searches that we have underway currently
[00:13:30.594]or are starting at the present,
[00:13:32.730]we should be up by just over 27%
[00:13:36.700]in our tenure track faculty numbers
[00:13:38.801]by the end of that hiring process.
[00:13:41.874]Trust me, when I go and I visit
[00:13:44.633]with my colleagues at other institutions,
[00:13:46.769]I just was in a meeting last week
[00:13:48.731]in Tucson, Arizona, the Farm Foundation,
[00:13:51.853]several of my colleagues from around the country
[00:13:54.535]and other land grants were there,
[00:13:56.478]and one of them, I won't say where he's from
[00:13:59.114]except it's a state that Chicago's in.
[00:14:01.435](laughter)
[00:14:02.875]One of them said to me,
[00:14:05.034]"There's this giant sucking sound
[00:14:06.520]"of everything going to Nebraska."
[00:14:09.330]I'm very happy, I don't mean that to sound bad.
[00:14:12.414]I mean that to be a really positive statement,
[00:14:15.637]in that we've been very fortunate
[00:14:18.040]to hire the people that we've been able to hire.
[00:14:20.757]We're not gonna be able to continue to do that at that rate.
[00:14:23.160]I think we all recognize that.
[00:14:24.855]But we've been very, very fortunate
[00:14:26.538]to be able to bring this talent on board.
[00:14:29.243]And I want to just put an underline under another part
[00:14:31.982]of this that is equally important to number.
[00:14:35.976]Quality is certainly a word that is somewhat subjective,
[00:14:40.450]but we have paid a lot of attention to quality
[00:14:43.189]in this process of the kind of people that we've hired,
[00:14:46.127]the kind of backgrounds that they bring to our institute,
[00:14:50.271]where they bring that background from.
[00:14:52.906]And we've also, not intentionally so,
[00:14:55.471]but we've been able to manage to increase
[00:14:56.865]the diversity of our faculty in that process.
[00:15:00.847]And I'm very pleased about that.
[00:15:02.669]Here's some data that reflect that.
[00:15:05.386]You've not seen these numbers before.
[00:15:07.804]With some data that reflect both for tenure-line faculty,
[00:15:10.857]so this growth piece that I just showed you,
[00:15:13.005]this 27% increase in tenure track faculty
[00:15:16.177]that we'll be through when we're done.
[00:15:18.942]You see about 2/3, 3/4 of that there
[00:15:21.213]in the bottom of the 17.4% increase since 11.
[00:15:25.531]And as well as non-tenure track faculty on the right.
[00:15:28.654]So professors of practice, research professors
[00:15:30.953]on non-tenure positions.
[00:15:33.611]And I wanna draw your attention
[00:15:34.830]to just a couple of statistics here.
[00:15:36.699]So if you look on the left-hand side of the slide,
[00:15:40.170]at the gender ratio and at the diversity of faculty,
[00:15:44.291]you will see gains in both of those
[00:15:46.996]over that period of time.
[00:15:48.413]In tenure track faculty, this number is
[00:15:52.812]the percentages of each category.
[00:15:55.065]And this number is the percentage increase
[00:15:57.027]in the overall number in magnitude,
[00:16:00.604]if you will, for that category.
[00:16:02.754]And I'm very pleased to see
[00:16:04.135]that we're increasing the number
[00:16:05.435]of women faculty in our scientific ranks,
[00:16:08.988]and we're increasing the diversity of our faculty
[00:16:11.751]in a way that I think is very important for us long term
[00:16:15.253]to reflect the greater population that we serve.
[00:16:18.624]Non-tenure track faculty, less dramatic,
[00:16:20.748]but again, some changes in increase
[00:16:23.523]in that demographic as well,
[00:16:25.984]when you look at our professors of practice
[00:16:27.679]and our research professors.
[00:16:32.764]Innovation Campus, another one of those goals.
[00:16:35.062]This has obviously been a very big year
[00:16:37.860]for Innovation Campus as we populated that campus now
[00:16:42.556]for the first time, if you will.
[00:16:45.144]Academically and in partnership basis,
[00:16:47.640]still a lot of work to do there yet,
[00:16:49.439]but we've made huge progress in the last nine to 12 months.
[00:16:53.824]This is what the campus looked like back late in the summer
[00:16:57.864]as we were preparing for that big launch that we had.
[00:17:01.300]380,000 square feet involved in that phase one
[00:17:04.899]of the footprint for the campus.
[00:17:07.198]The new food science or Food Innovation Center
[00:17:09.844]is now occupied by our department
[00:17:11.621]of Food Science and Technology.
[00:17:13.478]It went very well as a general move to that facility.
[00:17:17.285]Both from the actual physical move,
[00:17:20.246]as well as the integration, if you will, of the academic
[00:17:23.206]program into that facility for the fall term.
[00:17:27.537]So amazing facility if you've not seen it.
[00:17:30.571]We think it's the best facility of its kind in the world.
[00:17:33.612]And we expect to see great things come from that
[00:17:36.631]in the use of it long term with our partners.
[00:17:39.267]You've seen this slide before,
[00:17:40.396]the big relationship that we have there at the moment
[00:17:43.275]is the Alliance for Advanced Food Sanitation
[00:17:45.655]and the development of that alliance,
[00:17:47.733]centered around these initial eight partners
[00:17:50.531]that are part of that in helping us
[00:17:52.667]to develop new ways to approach food manufacturing
[00:17:55.790]from a sanitation side of the food safety
[00:17:58.530]piece of that industry.
[00:18:01.292]So we're excited about that.
[00:18:02.512]A search is currently underway for the director
[00:18:05.115]of that alliance to kick it off
[00:18:08.304]as we move fully into the center.
[00:18:11.041]New Greenhouse Innovation Center
[00:18:12.483]is being burnt in as we speak.
[00:18:15.111]This is a long process.
[00:18:16.447]I'm not going to tell you
[00:18:17.341]that we immediately have this center working
[00:18:19.802]and that tomorrow we're cranking
[00:18:21.450]the research results out of that.
[00:18:23.331]It's a much more complex process than that.
[00:18:27.162]And a team of faculty with ARD that have
[00:18:29.170]been working on that continue to make progress
[00:18:31.811]in having that facility up full scale and running.
[00:18:35.773]This is the list of current partners at Innovation Campus
[00:18:39.407]as of the ones we can announce today.
[00:18:42.170]There are another four or five major ones
[00:18:44.109]that we're far advanced in the development of that we'll
[00:18:47.104]probably add in the next three to four months of time.
[00:18:51.167]So you can kind of see this big picture here is growing.
[00:18:56.066]There are 13, if I think I counted it correctly,
[00:18:59.239]partners that are non-university related entities
[00:19:03.692]that make up part of those partnerships.
[00:19:06.441]And if you had looked at that a year ago,
[00:19:09.006]we would have had three.
[00:19:11.166]So we're very pleased about how that progress continues.
[00:19:14.977]I expect in the next month we'll add two more major ones
[00:19:18.591]to this list that keep us very excited
[00:19:21.262]and up at night thinking about it.
[00:19:24.524]The institutes that have developed.
[00:19:27.647]So over this five year period,
[00:19:29.520]we have stood up the Water for Food Institute
[00:19:32.492]to its first five years of history.
[00:19:34.559]They just celebrated just before the holidays.
[00:19:36.915]A five year birthday cake celebration
[00:19:39.399]reception at Innovation Campus.
[00:19:41.234]You see that picture there in the lower right.
[00:19:44.903]Has made huge progress in the first development
[00:19:47.805]of a system wide institute for the university, if you will,
[00:19:51.427]around an important topic like this one for us.
[00:19:55.099]Some of you are aware, we're in the process
[00:19:56.668]of hiring the second executive director.
[00:19:59.012]Roberto Lenton will be stepping down
[00:20:00.672]out of that position by his choice.
[00:20:04.207]As soon as we get that new person in place
[00:20:06.834]and we're in the final stages of making that decision.
[00:20:10.599]The Rural Futures Institute,
[00:20:12.492]one a couple of years later in development
[00:20:15.108]behind Water for Food,
[00:20:16.849]but on this rural security side, if you will.
[00:20:20.448]So the standing up of these two
[00:20:22.445]big system-wide institutes has been
[00:20:24.802]a big part of that last five years.
[00:20:27.451]Of course, the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources
[00:20:30.669]is tightly tied to.
[00:20:33.436]The Foundation, philanthropically.
[00:20:35.758]Now I mentioned in the research side
[00:20:38.062]that we had increased the expenditures
[00:20:41.025]coming from private support,
[00:20:43.521]or based upon private support
[00:20:45.343]when you saw that graph.
[00:20:47.004]There's a tremendous amount more
[00:20:48.385]that has been behind our increase
[00:20:50.184]in philanthropy entering that five years.
[00:20:53.167]Roughly 140 million dollars
[00:20:55.861]donated to the institute in some shape or form
[00:20:59.262]over that period of time.
[00:21:01.062]That is a huge number.
[00:21:02.123]i don't know if you understand how big that number is.
[00:21:05.211]When you think about where we're coming from.
[00:21:08.090]Some of those are big gifts.
[00:21:10.330]You have the 50 million dollar
[00:21:11.809]Daugherty gift in Water for Food.
[00:21:13.726]You have the 20 million dollar
[00:21:14.944]gift in Engler in that group,
[00:21:17.243]but there are a lot of other gifts
[00:21:19.103]beyond those that make up
[00:21:20.191]that total of 140 million.
[00:21:23.233]You will see some new faces on this slide.
[00:21:26.426]Ann Bruntz, who you have all known for a long time.
[00:21:28.910]Ann's been our development director
[00:21:31.138]at the University of Nebraska Foundation
[00:21:33.284]for the last number of years.
[00:21:35.920]Ann is retiring this year.
[00:21:38.555]She tells me it's March.
[00:21:39.983]I'm guessing it will be somewhere in that time frame,
[00:21:42.560]but she is retiring after a long amount
[00:21:45.845]of service to the institute.
[00:21:47.284]I would like to get you to give her
[00:21:48.724]a round of applause.
[00:21:49.390]She's not here today, but give her a round of applause
[00:21:52.224]because she's been a big part
[00:21:53.609]of that 140 million dollars. (applause)
[00:21:57.905]Josh Egley came on a couple of years ago now
[00:22:00.069]to join Ann in our efforts for IANR.
[00:22:03.382]He is now been promoted
[00:22:04.462]to the Senior Development Director
[00:22:06.284]for the Foundation for IANR.
[00:22:09.523]And he was given the opportunity
[00:22:11.682]to hire immediately two new development directors
[00:22:14.898]to work with him and a third to come in the next year.
[00:22:20.087]You can kinda begin to see the growth now
[00:22:22.042]and support, if you will, at the Foundation
[00:22:24.887]for growing that private giving
[00:22:26.860]of the university around the institute as well.
[00:22:30.031]Craig Buescher, I saw Craig come in.
[00:22:31.729]Craig is one of our two new development directors.
[00:22:34.248]Many of you know Craig.
[00:22:35.792]A long history here in agriculture
[00:22:37.475]in the state of Nebraska.
[00:22:39.089]And Kristen Hassebrook.
[00:22:40.494]Is Kristen here?
[00:22:42.275]Yeah, Craig why don't you stand up,
[00:22:43.675]so everybody can see you.
[00:22:45.021]Craig Buescher, we'll welcome. (applause)
[00:22:49.885]Kristen Hassebrook, who comes to us
[00:22:51.406]from the Nebraska Cattlemen, most recently.
[00:22:53.913]Kristen has a background in law.
[00:22:56.095]Is a graduate of our College of Law here
[00:22:58.812]and was representing the cattlemen
[00:23:00.391]in terms of legislative affairs relative to environment
[00:23:03.954]in particular in that most recent position.
[00:23:07.193]So we're very pleased to have them joining us.
[00:23:10.050]We've talked a lot about these endowed chairs.
[00:23:12.929]And the importance of endowed chairs moving forward.
[00:23:16.631]We set the goal of having 25 of them by 2025.
[00:23:19.546]We're at 13 currently.
[00:23:21.090]I highlighted the red ones there
[00:23:23.145]that are the ones that we will be filling,
[00:23:25.803]that don't have a person in them at this point,
[00:23:28.891]or will be a change in the Water for Food
[00:23:31.352]case with Dr. Lenton.
[00:23:33.303]So those are ones that are currently in play
[00:23:36.089]in the immediate near term ahead of us.
[00:23:38.631]And we have a number that we hope to add.
[00:23:42.787]Facility improvements.
[00:23:44.196]I've summarized these a lot for you
[00:23:46.054]in the last couple of All Hands meetings.
[00:23:48.109]Rolls up to a total of 382 million dollars,
[00:23:51.753]across the state.
[00:23:53.135]A lot of that here on campus,
[00:23:55.271]a lot of that at Innovation Campus
[00:23:57.570]that makes up those totals, if you will,
[00:24:00.332]of the facilities improvements.
[00:24:03.259]I've been joking with folks
[00:24:04.760]that the cranes were heavy downtown for a long time.
[00:24:08.533]We're going to see the cranes heavy out here for a while.
[00:24:11.656]Which is a really cool thing to experience
[00:24:14.338]and to be able to see that kind of transformation
[00:24:16.857]that will be happening to our campus
[00:24:18.818]that's already started with the two major
[00:24:20.920]building projects that are underway.
[00:24:24.159]The Heuermann Lecture was an addition
[00:24:25.782]in the last five years.
[00:24:26.862]This is personally one I'm very happy about.
[00:24:30.286]Both because of the support
[00:24:32.027]that the Heuermann family has provided
[00:24:33.943]to make that lecture happen,
[00:24:36.021]as well as the community gathering that it does
[00:24:39.121]for us in the institute.
[00:24:40.305]That was one of our 2025 planks,
[00:24:42.522]talking about how do we pull the community
[00:24:44.403]of the institute together.
[00:24:46.365]And this was the way we've done that.
[00:24:47.913]The next one we have tomorrow night,
[00:24:49.654]with Clayton Yeutter and Darci Vetter,
[00:24:51.917]focused on trade in particular,
[00:24:53.775]the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement
[00:24:55.749]that's currently part of the political landscape
[00:24:58.570]out there that has a lot of implications for agriculture.
[00:25:01.495]And we haven't announced it,
[00:25:02.529]but we will tomorrow night,
[00:25:04.037]the other Heuermann lecturer will be April the 26th
[00:25:07.536]jointly with the Water for Food Conference
[00:25:09.858]and it will Dr. Sally Rockey,
[00:25:11.657]who some of you met when she was
[00:25:13.410]a candidate for the presidency position here last year.
[00:25:17.938]Formerly a head of extramural programs for NIH,
[00:25:20.821]and is now the Executive Director
[00:25:23.206]of the Foundation for Food and Ag Research
[00:25:26.010]that was stood up by the farm bill this past year,
[00:25:29.515]so we'll be very excited to have Sally joining us in April.
[00:25:33.428]Extension, last five years.
[00:25:36.213]A lot of change in Extension.
[00:25:37.967]Probably the most visible change
[00:25:39.893]is the one that's occurring currently.
[00:25:42.529]I think you'll agree with me, Dean Hibberd, on that.
[00:25:45.269]Related to the development of issue teams
[00:25:47.869]and the thinking about how to do that,
[00:25:49.924]and to operationalize those issue teams,
[00:25:52.467]which I know is kinda where Extension
[00:25:53.906]is currently in developing those.
[00:25:57.051]A lot of background went into,
[00:25:58.712]as we talked about in the fall.
[00:26:00.848]They had the idea of these issues teams,
[00:26:03.808]a lot of feedback externally to help us think about that.
[00:26:07.902]And as you can see,
[00:26:09.773]we're rapidly on our way to the
[00:26:15.759]operationalizing those issue teams this spring.
[00:26:20.054]Extension has continued its strong presence
[00:26:22.772]in youth development.
[00:26:24.053]I don't have a slide in here specifically for 4-H,
[00:26:26.107]but we continue to be one of the leading
[00:26:27.547]4-H states in the country.
[00:26:29.486]And we also have added this kind of element
[00:26:32.933]of things like Raising Nebraska.
[00:26:35.429]That is an element for not just 4-H students,
[00:26:38.772]but for youth across the state,
[00:26:40.886]and for adults across the state
[00:26:43.590]relative to agriculture at the state fair
[00:26:46.945]and the use of that facility.
[00:26:48.849]You'll remember a year ago
[00:26:50.892]that exhibit in its first year was awarded
[00:26:53.284]a big international award in fairs and exhibitions
[00:26:57.022]for agriculture in particular.
[00:26:59.552]This year it received a second award
[00:27:01.712]just in the last few months of the fall,
[00:27:04.649]for the outdoor portion of that exhibit
[00:27:07.923]that was developed and opened
[00:27:09.548]in the shape of the state of Nebraska.
[00:27:11.788]A lot of our faculty were involved
[00:27:13.182]in the design and planning and development of that,
[00:27:16.328]and that was part of the state fair this past year.
[00:27:18.522]You can see that picture of that
[00:27:20.669]in the top right of the slide.
[00:27:24.349]Science literacy was an important part
[00:27:26.198]of that 2025 process.
[00:27:28.218]We've come a long way in the
[00:27:31.210]operationalizing the faculty in that group
[00:27:34.827]as one of the six emphasis areas
[00:27:37.253]that we've hired new faculty into.
[00:27:39.924]And quite pleased about where we sit
[00:27:42.673]on that effort as well.
[00:27:44.853]We also have become quite active
[00:27:46.577]nationally in the STEM effort.
[00:27:48.452]You see a picture here relative again
[00:27:50.095]to the fair and exhibit at the fair
[00:27:51.963]from this group this past year.
[00:27:54.302]In STEM for food and ag, in particular.
[00:27:57.645]And we're now an integral part
[00:27:58.841]of the Ag STEM and Food Council at the national level,
[00:28:03.368]that the university is one of just a few universities
[00:28:05.968]that are helping to lead that group.
[00:28:08.500]And then lastly, global engagement.
[00:28:12.146]This has multiple frames to it.
[00:28:15.166]I think oftentimes when I talk to people
[00:28:17.707]across the campus, not just in IANR,
[00:28:21.841]but across the UNL campus generally,
[00:28:25.447]oftentimes people conflate international
[00:28:28.648]engagement with study abroad.
[00:28:31.550]And that's the way they think of
[00:28:34.788]when we say international engagement.
[00:28:36.380]That's where it kinda stops for them.
[00:28:38.423]We're talking about global engagement
[00:28:40.146]at a comprehensive level here.
[00:28:42.920]We're talking about study abroad
[00:28:43.895]as an important part of global engagement.
[00:28:47.076]We're talking about international student development here
[00:28:50.071]as an important part of global engagement.
[00:28:52.973]And we're certainly talking about research
[00:28:54.877]and engagement outside of the student experience as well,
[00:28:59.335]of our university and of our faculty.
[00:29:01.355]And, oh by the way, we've begun talking about
[00:29:04.396]internationalization of Extension.
[00:29:07.698]And where Extension will fit into these efforts.
[00:29:10.941]So we've been very pleased about
[00:29:12.287]how these have developed.
[00:29:13.681]Many of these things on this map
[00:29:15.526]are centered around the Water for Food Institute.
[00:29:17.918]I'll be very honest about that as well as in early childhood
[00:29:22.027]that we'll talk about here in a few minutes.
[00:29:24.685]So there's these big new relationships
[00:29:27.971]that are broad in terms of the research
[00:29:31.145]and their engagement and how we go about doing that.
[00:29:34.720]Things we highlighted in the fall and I'll come back
[00:29:37.239]and talk about in the last half of the talk,
[00:29:39.619]more in the next five years.
[00:29:42.104]Particularly development of partnership degree programs,
[00:29:46.039]two plus twos or three plus ones,
[00:29:47.943]I'll define that a little bit better for you here relative
[00:29:50.310]to food science in talking about the next five years.
[00:29:53.851]And the start of a big new program around Rwanda.
[00:29:57.472]And I'll come back as well and talk about
[00:29:59.713]relative to the next five years.
[00:30:01.049]So this is a little different mindset than we've had before,
[00:30:04.908]and we're trying to really
[00:30:06.532]operationalize it at a high level.
[00:30:09.284]Research growth.
[00:30:10.432]I'm not gonna go into these in depth.
[00:30:12.893]And this isn't an all-inclusive list.
[00:30:14.831]There's probably some people that will look at this
[00:30:16.653]and say where am I on this list?
[00:30:18.651]It's not an all-inclusive list.
[00:30:21.786]But we have invested significantly
[00:30:24.408]in research infrastructure in the last five years.
[00:30:27.669]We have a lot of investment left to do
[00:30:30.188]in research infrastructure in the next five,
[00:30:32.987]but we've tried to strategically think
[00:30:35.668]about where we need to make these dollars work,
[00:30:38.628]where the biggest opportunities are,
[00:30:40.799]and we're going to continue doing that
[00:30:43.028]in terms of investing in the future,
[00:30:46.124]as you'll see in some of the later slides.
[00:30:49.647]Now to kinda bridge to talking about the next five years.
[00:30:53.647]I've got two slides in here
[00:30:54.783]that are meant to convey a message,
[00:30:56.467]so I'm gonna try to paint the message for you
[00:30:58.231]and then let you look at the slides.
[00:31:01.003]One of the things that I've always respected
[00:31:04.103]about the University of Nebraska,
[00:31:06.344]I respected it before I became a graduate student here,
[00:31:10.198]I respected it when I was a graduate student here,
[00:31:13.239]and I've respected it in the years since,
[00:31:16.316]is that we are a balanced institution.
[00:31:20.752]That we have a three part mission as a land-grant university
[00:31:26.013]that is balanced between instruction and teaching,
[00:31:29.768]both at the graduate and undergraduate levels,
[00:31:32.832]and balance there, in terms of research,
[00:31:37.268]both basic and applied,
[00:31:40.089]and in terms of outreach and engagement of what we do.
[00:31:44.372]Not only in the state of Nebraska,
[00:31:46.125]but even beyond the state of Nebraska.
[00:31:49.271]And that balance is not only in the tri-part mission,
[00:31:53.601]it's also across the fields that are important to us.
[00:31:57.629]I know we often kinda get in pulls and tugs
[00:32:00.535]about whether this program's getting more funding
[00:32:02.788]than that program's getting,
[00:32:04.135]or whether priorities are perfectly matched or not,
[00:32:08.511]but this is a really balanced place,
[00:32:10.253]and I'm really proud of that.
[00:32:11.877]And that's something we have to make sure
[00:32:13.654]we keep that balance in as we move forward,
[00:32:17.926]because there are a lot of drivers out there
[00:32:20.154]that might drive us to not keep that balance
[00:32:24.207]or to go too far in one direction or too far in another.
[00:32:27.991]And hopefully this collage of a couple pages of pictures
[00:32:31.288]shows you a little bit of that.
[00:32:34.713]Both a disciplinary balance,
[00:32:36.516]both mission balance,
[00:32:38.374]both types of research and engagement balance that we do.
[00:32:43.553]Moving into this next five years I would say that
[00:32:45.888]that's an area that we want to make sure
[00:32:47.967]we pay attention to and we keep focus on as well,
[00:32:51.183]but I'm very proud of that.
[00:32:52.622]And I think you hear that from people
[00:32:54.445]about the University of Nebraska
[00:32:56.325]when you go out and you talk to peer institutions.
[00:32:59.448]That's one of the things that they see as a hallmark
[00:33:01.967]of this institution that we should be very proud of.
[00:33:05.984]Okay, so great last five years behind us.
[00:33:09.257]Now I want to spend the next 20 or 25 minutes
[00:33:12.043]giving you some thoughts about where
[00:33:13.959]I think our challenges will be in the next five.
[00:33:17.961]And remember that we're talking about 15 years here.
[00:33:21.367]So we finished five, these are the next five
[00:33:24.315]we're going to talk about,
[00:33:25.790]and there are five beyond that in the 2025 plan,
[00:33:29.768]if you will, that lies ahead of us.
[00:33:31.823]Enrollment.
[00:33:34.145]We talked about how significant
[00:33:35.671]enrollment increases have been for us.
[00:33:37.470]How successful we have been in this part
[00:33:40.319]of the university in enrollment growth.
[00:33:43.082]Driven all by the right reasons.
[00:33:45.300]These are some of the numbers
[00:33:46.495]that I think we need to pay attention to.
[00:33:48.376]If we are a 30,000 student campus at UNL,
[00:33:52.799]in some year in the future, and 15% of that is us,
[00:33:58.182]remember that metric I mentioned to you before,
[00:34:02.890]I have some mathematicians in here,
[00:34:05.662]that's about 4500 students.
[00:34:08.083]We're at about 3500 students today
[00:34:11.382]when you roll the program together.
[00:34:13.681]So there's growth opportunity of about
[00:34:15.515]a thousand students there that I believe is real,
[00:34:19.218]is viable, can be done, and can be supported,
[00:34:22.944]if we are smart in how we do that.
[00:34:25.394]So in the next five years I'd like to see us
[00:34:28.958]increase our undergraduate enrollment
[00:34:30.897]by five to 600 additional students
[00:34:33.404]beyond where we are today.
[00:34:35.494]I talked in the fall about one of my pet peeves
[00:34:39.522]at the university currently and I'm finding
[00:34:41.681]this out across the campus,
[00:34:43.377]it's not a pet peeve on any one part of the campus,
[00:34:47.242]is that we have not emphasized
[00:34:49.262]graduate student recruitment enough.
[00:34:53.117]And we have not emphasized increase
[00:34:55.083]in graduate student recruitment enough.
[00:34:58.322]The discussion's been too much a generic 5,000 students
[00:35:01.643]and not enough about who those 5,000 students are,
[00:35:04.777]what they're going to be made up of,
[00:35:06.762]where they need to be,
[00:35:08.224]where the greatest needs are.
[00:35:09.560]And in my mind, graduate students
[00:35:11.220]have to be a significant part of that.
[00:35:13.564]And we've got to start figuring out how to resource that
[00:35:16.803]in order to help make that happen.
[00:35:19.125]So you see a number of a couple a hundred
[00:35:20.855]additional graduate students over the 680
[00:35:24.660]that we have today, 660 excuse me, that we have today.
[00:35:28.703]And I think that's a significant goal for us.
[00:35:31.199]I think we also need to reflect
[00:35:33.637]that we should increase our non-resident enrollment.
[00:35:37.515]And this isn't meant as,
[00:35:39.999]this is not a business practice point,
[00:35:43.354]this is a student population point.
[00:35:47.499]So this isn't saying, I think we need to have 10% more
[00:35:50.405]non-resident students because they bring
[00:35:52.518]more dollars to the university.
[00:35:54.247]That's not what I'm suggesting here.
[00:35:57.567]I'm suggesting that we need about 10%
[00:35:59.518]more non-resident students for the demographic
[00:36:02.444]of our student population to be
[00:36:04.464]more optimized than where it is today,
[00:36:07.145]for our students as well as for the university,
[00:36:10.141]in order to make up that right mix.
[00:36:12.206]And you can see some of that
[00:36:13.106]is from international students,
[00:36:14.742]some of that is from non-international
[00:36:17.006]or domestic students.
[00:36:18.585]And you can see where I'd like to see those numbers go.
[00:36:23.658]I showed you this slide in the fall
[00:36:25.199]relative to the graduate student numbers.
[00:36:26.893]These are our actual numbers in various
[00:36:28.937]graduate programs in CASNR currently.
[00:36:31.537]I don't have those that would be
[00:36:32.860]in our partner programs in CEHS included there,
[00:36:36.378]but we do have a number of those in the institute
[00:36:39.234]that work with graduate students that impact our programs.
[00:36:43.158]So just in simple math in CASNR, a couple
[00:36:46.280]of hundred students is not an unrealistic goal here.
[00:36:49.937]As long as we figure out the financial model
[00:36:52.793]for how to help 'em make that happen.
[00:36:55.741]Graduation rates.
[00:36:56.798]You saw this number earlier, I'm not changing it.
[00:36:58.980]75 to 82% is where we need to head.
[00:37:01.895]So that's not an insignificant increase
[00:37:05.435]in six year graduation rates from our campus.
[00:37:08.570]We have to look at every opportunity for how we can do that,
[00:37:12.400]including what the obstacles are
[00:37:14.478]to our students being able to matriculate
[00:37:17.393]in less than six years of time,
[00:37:19.458]preferably in four years of time.
[00:37:21.740]And we need to look internally at ourselves in CASNR,
[00:37:24.584]as well as the rest of the university
[00:37:27.301]in how we go about increasing that number.
[00:37:30.760]Faculty success.
[00:37:32.177]We have hired as I said, a tremendous cohort of new faculty.
[00:37:37.699]And we will continue with the remainder
[00:37:39.543]of those new faculty that we're bringing in
[00:37:42.027]through the next year as well as
[00:37:44.326]as we have new faculty come on board
[00:37:46.822]over the next five years,
[00:37:47.947]obviously from those who retire
[00:37:50.598]or leave us in positions that come open
[00:37:53.419]over the years out ahead of us.
[00:37:56.078]We have to be assured that we are
[00:37:57.645]successful with those new faculty.
[00:38:00.222]And the one thing that I worry about
[00:38:02.242]more than any other single thing
[00:38:05.005]is that we have tried to bring in new faculty,
[00:38:08.824]hired them into emphasis areas,
[00:38:11.657]remember the five that became six
[00:38:14.420]emphasis priority areas for the institute,
[00:38:17.918]and we're wanting them to work as teams in a culture
[00:38:22.009]that isn't always perfectly designed for that to happen.
[00:38:29.174]We all know that.
[00:38:30.527]The academy is not perfectly designed to allow you
[00:38:34.265]to finger yourselves out, your network out,
[00:38:38.189]beyond your discipline directly.
[00:38:40.906]So that's an area we have to pay careful attention to,
[00:38:43.344]including whether we need to think about that
[00:38:45.526]in our P and T evaluation system,
[00:38:47.662]and whether that's properly recognized
[00:38:49.822]and rewarded and supported
[00:38:52.027]for these new faculty that we have hired.
[00:38:54.790]Endowed chairs.
[00:38:56.265]We have 13, I'd like to go to 25.
[00:38:58.285]I think we should get at least halfway there
[00:39:00.003]in the next five years if not more.
[00:39:02.730]And while the emphasis in the previous endowed chairs
[00:39:05.540]has been mostly in the food area,
[00:39:07.421]mostly in the plant sciences area,
[00:39:09.928]the next big wave of these positions
[00:39:11.948]needs to be in the, all things spoken, animal world.
[00:39:16.743]Whether that's grassland studies,
[00:39:18.803]whether that's animal science,
[00:39:20.041]whether that's vet science,
[00:39:21.576]whether that's natural resources,
[00:39:23.357]and environmental sciences.
[00:39:25.296]So those are the areas that likely will receive
[00:39:28.337]that next emphasis in these next five years.
[00:39:31.089]Faculty success and recognition.
[00:39:33.654]Remember one of those UNL goals
[00:39:34.955]is to increase the stature and recognition
[00:39:37.834]of our faculty that make up the university.
[00:39:41.711]Two of the three members
[00:39:42.489]of the National Academy of Sciences,
[00:39:44.834]who are on our faculty are IANR faculty members.
[00:39:47.829]Both of them happen to be in the audience here today.
[00:39:50.615]I saw both of them walk in.
[00:39:53.041]We need to have five, at least five,
[00:39:55.473]members of the National Academy of Sciences.
[00:39:58.142]That is a big hill to climb.
[00:40:00.580]To get from one to two is a big hill to climb,
[00:40:03.657]to get from two to three, or three to five,
[00:40:06.815]is a huge hill to climb considering
[00:40:10.181]most of those members of the academy
[00:40:12.352]are very accomplished senior light members of their career.
[00:40:18.314]The three I should tell you who are here,
[00:40:19.589]Jim Van Etten is here, Brian Larkins is here today,
[00:40:23.142]and Joe Francisco, our Dean
[00:40:24.500]of the College of Arts and Sciences, is the most recent
[00:40:27.240]addition to our members of the National Academy
[00:40:31.005]when he joined us going on two years ago.
[00:40:35.196]So that's a big goal.
[00:40:36.983]I was extremely pleased, as you saw the press,
[00:40:40.861]earlier this fall about AAAS,
[00:40:44.262]where we had eight new AAAS Fellows
[00:40:47.222]to be inducted this year.
[00:40:49.103]That adds to the 18 that Nebraska had before that time.
[00:40:53.701]So you can see the big jump, if you will, in one given year.
[00:40:57.775]That's across all of the system, Med Center,
[00:41:00.124]all of the campuses the University of Nebraska collectively.
[00:41:03.782]And a big chunk of those, 11 of those,
[00:41:06.835]are members of the faculty of IANR.
[00:41:09.958]Big chuck of the members of AAAS Fellows,
[00:41:14.409]so increasing the stature of our faculty
[00:41:17.349]is also equally important.
[00:41:19.140]Increasing research expenditures by 50%.
[00:41:22.367]If we were at 125 million in 2014,
[00:41:24.828]well think like I said before,
[00:41:26.128]we'll be at 136, 137 this year
[00:41:29.808]when we close the books in 2015.
[00:41:32.862]You can do the math.
[00:41:34.104]That's a significant number.
[00:41:35.768]I don't think that's an unrealistic number.
[00:41:38.171]I think we're going to see that organically happen
[00:41:41.073]as the faculty that we have in place
[00:41:43.871]are going to increase those research expenditures.
[00:41:46.715]And it's going to be not in all
[00:41:48.550]of just the key areas that we've talked about traditionally,
[00:41:51.452]it'll be in a broad range of areas I predict
[00:41:55.485]as we look forward.
[00:41:57.892]Leveraging the institutes.
[00:41:59.692]There are now four of these institutes system wide.
[00:42:03.790]The Buffett Early Childhood Institute,
[00:42:05.369]the Water for Food Institute,
[00:42:06.588]the Rural Futures Institute,
[00:42:08.178]and the National Strategic Research Institute.
[00:42:11.533]The Institute of Ag and Natural Resources
[00:42:13.813]needs to be a key part of all of those.
[00:42:15.694]We obviously are already the underpinning
[00:42:18.642]for two of these very heavily.
[00:42:21.242]Buffett Early Childhood, you see the picture
[00:42:22.857]of Dean Kostelnik there in the fall,
[00:42:25.132]announcing a big elevation, if you will,
[00:42:27.698]of early childhood at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:42:30.797]And they're a key part of the
[00:42:32.399]Buffett Early Childhood Institute,
[00:42:33.874]the leader of that institute I would say currently.
[00:42:36.915]We need to continue building that program.
[00:42:40.121]And then NSRI, which is this defense related,
[00:42:45.159]Department of Defense related,
[00:42:46.708]related to the UARC that we started
[00:42:48.566]at the university system a couple of years ago,
[00:42:51.212]is one that really is still just getting off the ground.
[00:42:54.370]I'm spending the brunt of the day tomorrow at STRATCOM,
[00:42:57.702]visiting with the leadership at STRATCOM,
[00:42:59.722]with our leadership from the university
[00:43:01.811]about how we continue to build this cell.
[00:43:04.057]And as you think about what they want us
[00:43:06.054]to focus on at the University of Nebraska,
[00:43:08.758]which has this big acronym, WMD, attached to it,
[00:43:12.950]which is a term I really hate, but it's there.
[00:43:16.037]Weapons of mass destruction, that's tied to it.
[00:43:19.033]We have a role to play in that.
[00:43:21.192]A big role to play in that relative
[00:43:23.316]to the biological side of that piece.
[00:43:26.370]We continue to hear from NSRI.
[00:43:29.376]As I've listened to this discussion
[00:43:30.757]over the last nine months,
[00:43:32.638]we continue to hear from them
[00:43:34.171]that a key part of what the Defense Department
[00:43:37.235]is interested in is stabilization of agriculture
[00:43:40.254]and food systems in various parts of the world
[00:43:43.191]that they are considering is unstable.
[00:43:46.395]That's one of the big challenges
[00:43:47.677]the Department of Defense is concerned about,
[00:43:51.020]not the Department of Agriculture,
[00:43:52.762]but the Department of Defense.
[00:43:54.143]So tying into these institutes
[00:43:56.599]and working very effectively with them
[00:43:58.466]in the next five years as they go to their next level,
[00:44:01.310]if you will, will be a key element for us.
[00:44:04.305]Tying the system together.
[00:44:06.143]You've all heard our new president
[00:44:07.664]talk about tying the University of Nebraska
[00:44:09.963]system more tightly together.
[00:44:12.203]I think he's got a lot of good thought
[00:44:14.436]in that way that we'll have to change
[00:44:17.305]and be more a part of from the university moving forward.
[00:44:21.623]How we tie to UNMC in the life sciences.
[00:44:24.224]Folks, I will tell you, I know this is on tape,
[00:44:26.487]but I'm gonna say it anyway,
[00:44:27.706]we would not be in the position
[00:44:29.680]of not being in the AAU
[00:44:32.582]if we weren't set up the way we are set up
[00:44:36.283]today between UNMC and UNL.
[00:44:40.535]That would not have been an issue for us.
[00:44:43.987]So figuring out a way for these two campuses
[00:44:47.028]to do more of this is critically important
[00:44:50.326]as we move forward.
[00:44:51.289]We've got a lot of good starts on that,
[00:44:52.984]and including in IANR,
[00:44:55.202]some significant good starts on that,
[00:44:57.187]but we have to do more.
[00:44:59.478]UNO and UNMC, in particular in engineering and NSRI
[00:45:02.768]that I've just talked about,
[00:45:04.266]and then obviously BSE from our perspective in engineering.
[00:45:08.653]And then UNK.
[00:45:10.791]We often dismiss UNK as not relevant to us,
[00:45:16.246]but I would wager to you that they are relevant to us.
[00:45:20.265]We should be thinking about two plus two programs with UNK.
[00:45:24.425]And UNK is very interested in talking to UNL
[00:45:27.557]about two plus two programs.
[00:45:29.294]How do we put engineering together
[00:45:31.302]between those two campuses?
[00:45:32.777]Oh by the way, how do we put ag and natural resources
[00:45:36.421]together between those two campuses?
[00:45:39.085]Because there is an opportunity there
[00:45:41.709]that we haven't explored fully,
[00:45:43.473]but we need to think about how we might do that.
[00:45:47.576]I had the GUT function highlighted there,
[00:45:49.538]you'll understand why here in the next few slides.
[00:45:53.392]Global engagement.
[00:45:56.062]This is a reiteration, if you will,
[00:45:57.610]of the slide I showed you earlier.
[00:45:59.886]On this case, the external side.
[00:46:01.825]The next slide will be on the internal side,
[00:46:04.066]but it's got some metrics in here
[00:46:05.447]relative to what what we've already started.
[00:46:07.687]So we have a new program in food science,
[00:46:09.707]three plus one program,
[00:46:11.007]where three years of that program is delivered
[00:46:12.784]at Northwest Ag & Forestry University in China,
[00:46:15.627]our major partner there.
[00:46:17.206]The last year is here at the University Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:46:20.468]for a four year joint degree
[00:46:22.663]from the two institutions in food science.
[00:46:25.020]This is the first year cohort of those students.
[00:46:27.284]There's 61 students I believe engaged
[00:46:29.187]and enrolled in that program.
[00:46:31.346]Where three years from now we'll see
[00:46:33.518]those students come to Lincoln.
[00:46:35.561]Our faculty will teach the third year
[00:46:37.778]of that program on site in Yangling
[00:46:41.179]at Northwest Ag & Forestry University.
[00:46:43.327]So it's a shared two and two, if you will,
[00:46:46.426]delivered program and it uses the same curriculum.
[00:46:51.221]Our curriculum is being used in delivering that.
[00:46:54.878]I think we need at least two more
[00:46:56.062]of those kinds of programs out there in the institute.
[00:47:00.416]Not necessarily in food science,
[00:47:02.415]but we need at least two more joint degree programs
[00:47:05.260]that I think we should develop in the next five years.
[00:47:08.394]The Rwandan program, first semester,
[00:47:10.994]finished successfully last fall.
[00:47:13.374]We had our first seven students enrolled in that program.
[00:47:17.020]We are now in the process of recruiting
[00:47:19.759]the next cohort of students, where we expect
[00:47:22.197]to admit 50 of those students to come in the fall.
[00:47:26.376]And Josh Davis told me the other day,
[00:47:28.594]a couple of days ago last week,
[00:47:30.431]that they have over 500 applications
[00:47:34.704]for that program.
[00:47:36.352]So it tells you a little bit about,
[00:47:37.834]something about the need for and demand for that program.
[00:47:41.259]Fully funded by a private foundation.
[00:47:44.173]Fully funding and paying for the full cost of education
[00:47:47.052]for these students for a full four year degree
[00:47:50.499]in applied ag science.
[00:47:52.531]So a total of 200 students we expect to matriculate
[00:47:55.515]through that program in the next four years,
[00:47:58.026]next five years of time.
[00:47:59.784]Very excited about that.
[00:48:01.502]And expansion of that into the graduate program,
[00:48:04.009]that is another plank of that on a much smaller scale,
[00:48:07.307]but still tied to that effort.
[00:48:10.023]Robust research partnerships in countries
[00:48:13.007]where we have started these already.
[00:48:15.625]I have the University of Sao Paulo at ESALQ in Brazil,
[00:48:19.003]shown as one of those here in the slide,
[00:48:21.943]where we have the nascent starts of those,
[00:48:24.032]now we need to fully develop them
[00:48:25.925]and make them come off the ground, if you will.
[00:48:29.326]Routine culture of this comprehensive
[00:48:31.327]approach to global engagement.
[00:48:34.708]And then the last one down here is the one
[00:48:36.920]I draw your attention to that is tied to enrollment.
[00:48:41.203]Where we should be doubling
[00:48:42.810]our international enrollment.
[00:48:45.167]That goal is not going to be hard to meet
[00:48:47.732]when you add the number of students
[00:48:49.927]in these partnership degree programs,
[00:48:52.190]and the undergraduate side, we're already there largely.
[00:48:56.161]So that goal might ought to be four instead of two,
[00:48:59.260]but it's doubling of the international enrollment,
[00:49:03.336]and I would add to that a tripling
[00:49:04.819]of our study abroad efforts.
[00:49:07.756]The number of students who end up having matriculated
[00:49:11.157]with a full study abroad experience out of our college.
[00:49:16.195]Completing infrastructure, campus facilities.
[00:49:19.079]This is the list at the top that is already
[00:49:21.563]underway in some way, shape, or form,
[00:49:23.677]either under construction or about to go to construction.
[00:49:27.603]The one that's about 2/3 of the way down,
[00:49:29.648]the NCTA Men's Dormitory is in renovation,
[00:49:32.469]that we're hopeful to be able to do in the next year.
[00:49:35.766]And then there are a couple of new ones on here.
[00:49:39.100]And these are campus developments.
[00:49:40.720]I'll talk about off-campus here in a moment,
[00:49:43.495]but on campus at UNL, the Ruth Staples facility
[00:49:47.454]that you're all familiar with here on East Campus,
[00:49:50.100]CEHS is looking hard at how to develop
[00:49:53.154]the next generation of that facility,
[00:49:55.700]at perhaps a different location on campus
[00:49:58.754]then it's located currently.
[00:50:00.216]So early thinking, if you will, about how to do that
[00:50:03.588]and build a new facility for that important program,
[00:50:06.804]tied to a nature learning classroom
[00:50:09.508]that's been a part of and interest to the school
[00:50:12.225]of natural resources for some time.
[00:50:14.790]And you can think about the juxtaposition, if you will,
[00:50:17.124]of facility to Hardin Hall and how that might tie together.
[00:50:22.074]So that's a relatively new development.
[00:50:25.533]And then we're thinking a lot about greenhouse capacity.
[00:50:29.567]Sure we have two nice, gee-whiz, bang,
[00:50:32.283]big fancy greenhouses at Innovation Campus,
[00:50:35.603]but we have a whole row of greenhouses
[00:50:37.751]here on this campus that are probably needing work,
[00:50:42.569]and needing support developed to them.
[00:50:45.401]So that will be a big part of what
[00:50:47.224]we think about in this next five years.
[00:50:49.743]The legislative session.
[00:50:51.380]The unicameral of the legislature,
[00:50:53.330]usually I talk about them a lot in this presentation.
[00:50:56.267]I'm not doing that today necessarily except for this slide.
[00:51:01.062]Because our big emphasis in the unicameral this session,
[00:51:04.631]short session, 60 days that they have
[00:51:07.138]between now and mid-March to do all of their business,
[00:51:10.017]non-budget setting year.
[00:51:12.199]We are approaching them with a capital needs request
[00:51:15.891]by the University of Nebraska system.
[00:51:18.149]It's summarized here on this slide.
[00:51:20.377]I've highlighted the UNL portion of that,
[00:51:23.535]and the facilities that are targeted at UNL as part of that.
[00:51:28.295]A lot of you will be familiar with the term LB 605,
[00:51:32.075]which was the last legislation
[00:51:34.154]that enabled us to do deferred maintenance
[00:51:36.917]and to address projects like we did with Keim Hall,
[00:51:40.342]you'll remember a number of years ago,
[00:51:41.642]like we did with the HVAC system in animal science,
[00:51:44.335]Larry Berger several years ago.
[00:51:46.274]So funds that the state sets aside.
[00:51:49.884]They've been setting aside 11 million dollars a year
[00:51:52.775]for that deferred maintenance
[00:51:55.074]initiative across the university.
[00:51:57.082]And the university had been contributing
[00:51:59.381]11 million dollars a year, so 22 million dollars
[00:52:02.318]that was put against bond financing
[00:52:04.419]for capital renovation and renewal projects.
[00:52:08.180]This proposal would double that commitment.
[00:52:11.500]So the university would now be putting in
[00:52:13.079]22 million dollars a year,
[00:52:15.053]and the state would be putting in 22 million dollars a year
[00:52:18.802]out over the decade ahead
[00:52:21.275]to give us a total of about 400 million dollars
[00:52:24.131]in bond proceeds to work with against new renovations.
[00:52:29.158]The downside of that?
[00:52:31.183]While it's not a big percentage
[00:52:32.344]of our base budget from the state,
[00:52:35.710]you can see that it's less than 2% of our base budget,
[00:52:39.147]the downside is that it would require
[00:52:41.171]the university to raise tuition.
[00:52:43.911]And that's the other side of this sword,
[00:52:46.783]if you will, or the equation here.
[00:52:48.965]So it goes forward with a 1% increase
[00:52:51.322]in tuition for each of the next four years
[00:52:54.178]in order to fund that additional university
[00:52:56.999]investment into these facilities.
[00:52:58.996]That's the list.
[00:53:00.424]The top two are the engineering complex
[00:53:02.478]downtown on City Campus.
[00:53:04.777]The food industry facility is that first floor
[00:53:07.215]of the Food Industry Complex,
[00:53:08.817]form our pilot plants for a classroom center.
[00:53:11.719]We feel very strongly that that will be funded.
[00:53:14.423]Mabel Lee and Henzlik Halls on City Campus,
[00:53:16.815]the home of CEHS has long been slated for renovation.
[00:53:22.016]Marjorie just is anxious to see what they're
[00:53:25.340]going to do with the swimming pool in that facility.
[00:53:28.579]The CBA facility is the old CBA building.
[00:53:32.967]We obviously are building a new CBA building on campus.
[00:53:36.659]The existing College of Business Administration
[00:53:39.607]would be converted in portion to
[00:53:42.603]instructional needs for the campus,
[00:53:44.623]in particular on the first floor of that building
[00:53:47.397]and some funds for that.
[00:53:49.104]Manter Hall, some additional funding
[00:53:50.787]for Manter and Hamilton Halls as well.
[00:53:53.840]So we're excited about that.
[00:53:55.976]This is obviously a difficult budget climate that we're in.
[00:54:00.899]You've probably read the newspapers
[00:54:03.955]that talk about tax receipts being down,
[00:54:07.570]a pretty challenging ag economy in the state
[00:54:10.738]currently over the short term, certainly ahead.
[00:54:13.617]So we'll have to see what the legislature does with
[00:54:16.286]this request, but it's been received very favorably so far
[00:54:19.026]by both the governor and the appropriations committees.
[00:54:24.793]Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center,
[00:54:27.056]I mentioned earlier, last fall about this,
[00:54:30.017]and about the process that we're going through there
[00:54:33.304]to focus on having a research and extension center
[00:54:35.861]for the eastern third of Nebraska,
[00:54:38.601]that would be headquartered at the
[00:54:40.601]Ag Research and Development Center at Mead.
[00:54:43.714]Told you about Don Adams taking on
[00:54:45.420]that leadership role in a transition that he did
[00:54:48.357]effective November 1st, this past fall.
[00:54:51.321]And the conversations that are now being held
[00:54:54.259]to be able to move that forward
[00:54:56.476]and operationalize that concept
[00:54:58.879]we believe by July of this year.
[00:55:02.280]So this is the timeline that that is on.
[00:55:05.118]It's already kicked off with a meeting later this week.
[00:55:08.113]You'll see that at the top with heads and chairs
[00:55:11.464]to develop the steering committee for this,
[00:55:14.018]and hopefully to be at a point
[00:55:16.084]where we are in an operational mode
[00:55:18.256]for this new structure for eastern Nebraska
[00:55:21.607]July 1st of this year.
[00:55:24.048]Innovation Campus.
[00:55:25.720]We have some facility to fill there yet
[00:55:28.843]in the existing footprint.
[00:55:30.990]So some opportunities for additional partnerships
[00:55:34.102]that I've already mentioned to you we're developing.
[00:55:36.946]And then in the next five years,
[00:55:38.304]we certainly would expect to build out
[00:55:40.220]about 240,000 square feet of additional space.
[00:55:44.526]And the next 80,000 square feet of that space
[00:55:46.848]is already designed and is being discussed
[00:55:50.064]about moving into that design,
[00:55:52.678]just north of the Greenhouse Center
[00:55:55.477]as you look at that complex currently.
[00:55:58.442]Hopefully tomorrow night
[00:55:59.580]when you're out for the Heuermann lecture.
[00:56:02.401]This is developing very nicely
[00:56:04.290]and I tried to design it in a way that would reflect
[00:56:07.251]to you the opportunity that we're seeing build.
[00:56:12.081]The Foundation for Food and Ag Research
[00:56:13.775]is a new entity, stood up by the farm bill,
[00:56:16.816]on the previous farm bill,
[00:56:18.291]with 300 million dollars of federal money
[00:56:20.949]that went into this foundation.
[00:56:23.317]Where the foundation is run externally from USDA.
[00:56:27.590]I mentioned Sally Rockey who is the new
[00:56:29.412]Executive Director of that group.
[00:56:32.331]Operated with a board, an appointed board
[00:56:35.059]of 15 people that have been assigned
[00:56:36.882]to that board by the federal government
[00:56:40.143]to fund public, private partnership research
[00:56:44.660]in the ag and food space.
[00:56:47.980]Where this is required one-to-one match
[00:56:51.056]kind of public, private partnership.
[00:56:52.995]It's not the kind of thing where we
[00:56:54.260]often write a grant proposal and we have
[00:56:55.920]in-kind funding that we bring to that match.
[00:56:59.461]This is cash match funding.
[00:57:02.038]So when there is an RFA that will come out
[00:57:05.229]of the Foundation For Food and Ag Research,
[00:57:07.429]and if that RFA is 25 million dollars,
[00:57:09.570]that will be real money where 12 of that
[00:57:12.692]will have come from,
[00:57:14.074]12 1/2 of that would have come from
[00:57:16.373]the mandatory funding in the
[00:57:19.728]Food and Ag Research Foundation,
[00:57:21.610]the other 12 1/2 would come from a partner.
[00:57:24.570]They would be funding that effort.
[00:57:26.699]They have started their discussions in earnest
[00:57:28.939]about how they plan to operationalize that funding.
[00:57:33.166]And their big issues right up front
[00:57:36.224]are soil health and water.
[00:57:39.509]Those are the two areas that they
[00:57:40.705]are talking about most consistently.
[00:57:42.907]And they have engaged us in those discussions.
[00:57:45.624]Roberto Lenton is the Water for Food Institute Director,
[00:57:48.619]was part of that discussion,
[00:57:50.721]where he was invited to be at that round table
[00:57:53.124]discussing priorities on water.
[00:57:55.666]So that opportunity with that foundation
[00:57:59.439]is going to be we think significant,
[00:58:01.784]and we think it will be significant for Innovation Campus.
[00:58:04.880]The Food for Health Initiative,
[00:58:06.518]that icon that you see on the left,
[00:58:08.235]it's the University of Nebraska.
[00:58:10.170]So that's this new system wide emphasis
[00:58:12.874]that is being placed on how we fund
[00:58:15.568]holistically work and food for health
[00:58:18.447]across the university system.
[00:58:20.746]And some of you were part
[00:58:21.674]of that first workshop this past fall
[00:58:24.786]that was held to discuss that,
[00:58:26.492]being driven by Provost Fritz's office in Varner Hall.
[00:58:31.016]And then the Food Factory of the Future icon on the right
[00:58:34.333]is being driven out of the College of Engineering,
[00:58:36.980]here at UNL.
[00:58:38.420]And looking at how we tie
[00:58:40.962]to that food innovation center,
[00:58:42.820]to re-engineer food manufacturing, if you will,
[00:58:46.453]above and beyond the Alliance for Advanced Food Sanitation
[00:58:49.773]that we talked about.
[00:58:50.706]Some 51 companies who now are engaged
[00:58:53.609]in that discussion with us, where FFAR,
[00:58:57.602]the foundation here, may be part of that,
[00:58:59.947]but even more importantly, the Department of Commerce
[00:59:03.465]is very interested in these kinds of innovation institutes
[00:59:06.668]where we're headed really with that discussion,
[00:59:09.350]if you will, on the engineering side.
[00:59:12.787]So I don't know, you might call this cheesy.
[00:59:16.803]But this is kinda the way I think about it.
[00:59:20.185]Is there is no reason that Nebraska Innovation Campus
[00:59:23.430]shouldn't be the Silicon Valley for this.
[00:59:26.785]I know that sounds like a long way
[00:59:28.890]from where we are today,
[00:59:30.712]but that's the vision we should have.
[00:59:33.186]We should be thinking about Innovation Campus
[00:59:35.101]being the Silicon Valley for food, fuel, and water.
[00:59:38.159]And attracting those kinds of relationships that are there.
[00:59:41.722]And I hope we'll see that happen,
[00:59:43.278]that we'll see that synergy begin to happen.
[00:59:47.161]Don't fall out of your chair, Craig,
[00:59:49.080]as the new guy in the room here,
[00:59:51.669]but I believe we should raise 200 million dollars
[00:59:54.641]in the next five years.
[00:59:57.706]We raised 140 million in a campaign
[01:00:00.427]that was well designed by the University Foundation.
[01:00:03.724]I think we should raise 200 million in the next five years.
[01:00:06.545]And I think we'll see that happen
[01:00:08.763]to support our IANR programs.
[01:00:10.423]A lot of that will be building money.
[01:00:12.180]I'll just be real candid with you,
[01:00:13.920]it'll be built around infrastructure and buildings
[01:00:16.463]to support our efforts.
[01:00:17.972]We should increase our total rolled up budget
[01:00:20.294]of the institute by 100 million dollars.
[01:00:23.394]That sounds like a big goal,
[01:00:25.766]but organically that will happen somewhat on its own.
[01:00:29.904]It will happen somewhat based on the research
[01:00:32.272]growth that we talked about earlier.
[01:00:34.652]It will happen somewhat on the enrollment
[01:00:36.727]growth we talked about earlier,
[01:00:38.511]and it'll happen somewhat on the philanthropy
[01:00:40.833]and public, private partnership arena
[01:00:43.802]that I talked about earlier.
[01:00:45.331]So these things are additive and they add to that base
[01:00:48.453]and I expect we will see that happen as well.
[01:00:53.109]Those allocation of new resources though
[01:00:54.931]are going to be a little different
[01:00:56.568]than they've been in the last five years.
[01:00:58.031]This is my crystal ball.
[01:01:00.620]We've invested in people the last five years.
[01:01:04.247]We've invested largely in people and faculty,
[01:01:07.932]tenure track faculty in the last five years.
[01:01:11.937]The next five years we're going to need
[01:01:13.736]to invest heavily in our staff.
[01:01:16.417]We're going to need to assure
[01:01:17.200]that we have our staff optimized
[01:01:20.300]to meet the needs that are out there for us long term.
[01:01:23.666]We've just begun to look at that to be real honest.
[01:01:28.222]We haven't studied that at the level
[01:01:29.631]that we need to, unit by unit,
[01:01:31.917]to know what our staff needs need to be moving forward.
[01:01:35.068]And we're gonna have to figure out a way
[01:01:36.821]to invest more in graduate students.
[01:01:40.106]Invest more in the needs to support graduate students
[01:01:43.338]than the traditional model of going out
[01:01:45.254]and finding external dollars before you bring a student.
[01:01:49.757]We've got to have some level of base support
[01:01:52.555]that is greater around what we do
[01:01:54.851]than just relying on all of it to be external
[01:01:57.905]to support those increased numbers
[01:01:59.449]of graduate students that are there,
[01:02:01.073]both on the research side and on the teaching side as well.
[01:02:05.531]We will continue to have added infrastructure growth.
[01:02:07.703]I've already mentioned some of that to you,
[01:02:09.211]what's out there ahead of us in the next five years
[01:02:12.207]to get that to where it needs to be overall.
[01:02:14.911]And I think I've mentioned to you in the past
[01:02:16.526]that there are additional gifts that we expect
[01:02:18.290]to be coming to the institute.
[01:02:20.252]Some of which may occur in this five year period
[01:02:23.003]that will add infrastructure to us as well,
[01:02:26.289]and add capacity for us out across the state.
[01:02:31.581]We can't just talk a global engagement walk,
[01:02:34.471]we also have to fund a global engagement walk.
[01:02:39.189]'Cause this doesn't come free.
[01:02:41.876]And so in order to do the kinds of things
[01:02:44.400]that I laid out to you on the global engagement side,
[01:02:46.617]there's going to need to be some dedicated resources
[01:02:49.403]that come out of that growth, in budget, if you will,
[01:02:52.816]that will help to fund some of those efforts.
[01:02:56.218]I mentioned staff.
[01:02:58.443]You've heard me talk about in the last couple
[01:03:00.097]of All Hands meetings, the Inspire program
[01:03:02.697]and the HR Management program
[01:03:04.856]that our staff in business and personnel in finance
[01:03:07.538]have put together and are launching
[01:03:09.837]the next phase of that as annual evaluations,
[01:03:12.790]to change the annual evaluation process, if you will,
[01:03:16.470]for our staff and to make that a part
[01:03:19.242]of our culture as we move forward.
[01:03:21.162]So they're in the process of doing that.
[01:03:24.375]And I'd look forward to seeing that happen.
[01:03:27.776]Now I'm gonna make a couple of closing comments here.
[01:03:32.564]One of the things that you have to be
[01:03:33.773]real careful of in any organization
[01:03:36.227]is to understand how you got where you are,
[01:03:40.859]what the leaders that came before you did
[01:03:43.703]and how that happened.
[01:03:46.083]And we've been very successful
[01:03:47.302]to have some really great leaders at this institution.
[01:03:50.807]Here's a map of East Campus in the late 1800s.
[01:03:54.538]There's your master plan,
[01:03:55.889]the most recent one of East Campus,
[01:03:58.234]for the years out ahead.
[01:04:00.928]So at the campus level we've had some very good leadership.
[01:04:04.167]We have to think about sustaining that leadership.
[01:04:06.988]We have to think about who those people
[01:04:08.694]are going to be in the future.
[01:04:10.087]And how we develop those people in the future.
[01:04:12.750]And thinking about where they're going to be.
[01:04:14.892]In the next five years we're going to see
[01:04:16.342]some change in leadership, undoubtedly.
[01:04:19.152]I can't tell you what all of that will be.
[01:04:21.880]I can't tell you who those people will be.
[01:04:23.981]I know who a couple of 'em are going to be,
[01:04:25.641]just because of their plans
[01:04:27.998]and where they are themselves,
[01:04:30.319]but there's a succession chain here
[01:04:32.421]that we need to think very carefully about
[01:04:34.998]and have the right leaders in place,
[01:04:36.995]all the way down into the centers
[01:04:38.539]and the institutes and the departments,
[01:04:40.837]long term for us to be successful.
[01:04:43.531]So we need to pay attention to that as we move forward.
[01:04:47.269]So we can continue that building to happen,
[01:04:50.530]to build on what we have laid out before us.
[01:04:54.835]And I'm gonna close with this slide.
[01:04:58.076]Some of you will recognize this sculpture.
[01:05:00.983]It's called The Thinker, for obvious reasons.
[01:05:04.420]It's been copied all over the world.
[01:05:05.941]You see it in lots of different places,
[01:05:08.842]in plazas in the world.
[01:05:12.446]There's some big thinking we have to do, too.
[01:05:14.460]And we have to ask ourselves the questions
[01:05:15.935]as we keep going forward, it's really,
[01:05:19.211]see if I can phrase it this way for you.
[01:05:20.736]It's really easy to get locked into your step.
[01:05:24.590]Everybody know what I mean by that?
[01:05:26.266]You get your head down, you get locked into your step,
[01:05:28.007]and you just march down the road,
[01:05:30.289]and you hope that everything's
[01:05:31.546]going to stay right in that road.
[01:05:33.624]And it's easy to put the blinders on
[01:05:36.503]and not see what's on the sides of the road.
[01:05:39.874]And we can't do that.
[01:05:41.673]We have to continue thinking about
[01:05:43.960]the world that's changing around us.
[01:05:46.073]We have to continue thinking about
[01:05:47.594]how the plans we have fit or don't fit.
[01:05:52.202]And so there's things like,
[01:05:53.550]are we in all of the areas that we need to be?
[01:05:55.871]Focus is important, but are we
[01:05:57.706]in all of the areas we need to be in?
[01:06:01.723]Should we be doing more outside
[01:06:04.036]of mainstream in conventional agriculture?
[01:06:06.636]It's a valid question.
[01:06:08.726]Should we be doing more in local food production?
[01:06:11.528]Should we doing more in the environmental sciences?
[01:06:15.312]Those are valid questions that we need
[01:06:17.112]to continue asking ourselves as we go down this road.
[01:06:20.733]And so we got to keep our thinking cap on, if you will,
[01:06:23.926]and not get locked into thinking
[01:06:26.131]it just will be exactly this way as we move forward.
[01:06:30.984]One of the things that has,
[01:06:32.763]this is a really controversial one,
[01:06:34.305]especially when I get ready to talk
[01:06:35.552]to the Ag Builders of Nebraska on Wednesday,
[01:06:38.826]but one of the things that has puzzled me
[01:06:41.148]for a long time is this acronym IANR.
[01:06:46.186]And I feel very deeply about that acronym.
[01:06:49.174]I think you all know that.
[01:06:50.490]But that acronym is not a very inclusive one.
[01:06:55.308]If you think about what that acronym spells,
[01:06:59.484]it spells the Institute of Ag and Natural Resources.
[01:07:04.963]It does not talk about human sciences.
[01:07:08.562]It does not talk about environmental sciences,
[01:07:11.581]directly at least.
[01:07:14.607]That's a big thought.
[01:07:15.253]I sit and scratch my head all the time.
[01:07:17.142]I would sit on a plane like I did the other day
[01:07:18.741]and I'll try to come up with another acronym
[01:07:22.444]that hopefully will form some word.
[01:07:25.531]But you know, those are things that
[01:07:27.145]we need to keep our thinking cap on about.
[01:07:30.695]Does our name reflect who we are?
[01:07:32.598]Our name is very precious to a lot of people, including me.
[01:07:36.707]It's very precious to a lot of people,
[01:07:38.394]but that's a valid question we need
[01:07:40.739]to put in our thinking cap
[01:07:41.819]and scratch our head a little bit about.
[01:07:43.560]We need to scratch our head a little bit
[01:07:44.814]about over the next five years,
[01:07:46.881]of you know we have one college academically,
[01:07:50.479]the College of Ag Sciences and Natural Resources.
[01:07:53.462]And we have a partner college in
[01:07:55.494]research and graduate education and extension
[01:07:57.874]in the College of Education and Human Sciences.
[01:08:01.113]And we have it's now a partnership here
[01:08:03.031]in this particular way and another partnership here
[01:08:05.840]in this 'nother particular way,
[01:08:08.035]with maybe a college of arts and sciences,
[01:08:10.245]or maybe a college of engineering,
[01:08:12.368]or you fill in the blank, you get the idea.
[01:08:15.062]Kind of more of one-on-one smaller partnerships.
[01:08:19.287]But is that really the right way
[01:08:22.450]to think about moving every area forward?
[01:08:26.182]I've scratched my head and thought about,
[01:08:27.603]should we have a College of Environmental Sciences
[01:08:29.298]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln?
[01:08:33.628]It's a valid question.
[01:08:35.837]It's often raised to me,
[01:08:37.033]my colleagues in the school of natural resources.
[01:08:39.214]And some of 'em are grinning,
[01:08:40.619]looking at me when I say that,
[01:08:41.838]but it's often raised as a question.
[01:08:44.717]I don't know the answer to that
[01:08:46.052]perfectly today where I sit,
[01:08:48.072]but we need to continue thinking
[01:08:49.535]about those kinds of questions
[01:08:51.636]and whether we're structured right,
[01:08:54.113]whether we're going down the right road.
[01:08:55.952]So that's the meaning of the The Thinker here,
[01:08:58.691]is that we can't not continue to scratch our heads.
[01:09:02.151]We can't just think the number is already decided
[01:09:04.647]or the goal is already decided
[01:09:06.586]and we've got that locked in
[01:09:08.106]and we can't continue thinking about
[01:09:10.487]what we need to bring to the table.
[01:09:14.042]With that, I'll close with where I started,
[01:09:19.084]that the goal that we started out with in 2011,
[01:09:22.758]11 All Hands meetings ago,
[01:09:25.358]may not have been stated exactly this way,
[01:09:28.864]but that's the goal.
[01:09:31.284]Is to be the very best public university
[01:09:33.216]that we can possibly be in the world
[01:09:35.641]in serving the needs of food, agriculture,
[01:09:39.833]natural resources, environment,
[01:09:41.992]and rural and human security.
[01:09:45.196]So those are big words.
[01:09:47.099]And it's a big mission.
[01:09:48.273]And I think we've accomplished a lot in getting there.
[01:09:50.919]I look forward to the next five years
[01:09:52.579]and what we're going to see accomplished as we move forward.
[01:09:56.051]And I'll just close with saying,
[01:09:58.360]what will they say, whoever is sitting in the room,
[01:10:02.575]probably won't be me,
[01:10:04.956]but what will they say in 2021
[01:10:08.215]about where we got to in IANR?
[01:10:11.818]Five years from now what will they say
[01:10:13.989]in that All Hands meeting?
[01:10:15.607]I think it's gonna be a pretty cool story.
[01:10:18.810]So I'll close with that and see if there
[01:10:21.159]are questions that you might have
[01:10:23.400]or dialogue we might want to have.
[01:10:26.418]I almost made it, Jill you won.
[01:10:28.647](audience laughs and applauds)
[01:10:37.066]So I know we can take questions online
[01:10:38.923]and Jill's following that online,
[01:10:41.688]here in the audience as well,
[01:10:43.107]so any question you'd like to ask
[01:10:46.400]or comment you'd like to make,
[01:10:47.967]or feedback you'd like to provide.
[01:10:57.625]Oh, come on, surely.
[01:10:59.645]Yep, Paul.
[01:11:00.765]I applaud the idea of pursuit
[01:11:03.447]of more graduate student support.
[01:11:08.811]We build on our reputations,
[01:11:11.989]well many of us, on what our grad students
[01:11:14.207]have done, they've lifted us up.
[01:11:16.424]And to make that really,
[01:11:18.328]it will be an important component
[01:11:19.964]of the big picture you've just described.
[01:11:23.869]Paul Reed's comments,
[01:11:24.786]some of you may not have heard the first part of it,
[01:11:26.991]was around the graduate student plank
[01:11:29.097]that I talked about and the importance of that,
[01:11:32.602]building that in the future.
[01:11:34.672]And I don't want you to,
[01:11:36.182]I don't want to over simplify that.
[01:11:38.081]It's easy to say we just need more money.
[01:11:40.857]And we need to figure out a way
[01:11:41.964]to support graduate students,
[01:11:44.959]and we need to have more central resources
[01:11:46.700]to put into that pool to support graduate students.
[01:11:50.104]It's not a simple solution.
[01:11:51.766]It's not one answer to that.
[01:11:53.995]External funds are important.
[01:11:55.133]I didn't mean to say they weren't earlier.
[01:11:57.864]They are a big part of that.
[01:11:59.933]But there are all kinds of different external funds.
[01:12:03.113]And we're seeing those external funds
[01:12:04.959]diversify more at the moment
[01:12:07.351]than we've seen them diversify in the past.
[01:12:09.875]Where they're coming from,
[01:12:11.221]what they're interested in supporting because
[01:12:13.403]these challenges are changing that are out there.
[01:12:17.501]It's not just USDA anymore.
[01:12:21.016]It's much broader than that at the federal level.
[01:12:23.123]It's much broader than that at the industry level.
[01:12:25.166]It's much broader than that at the private level.
[01:12:28.125]And then we do have to figure out something
[01:12:29.984]at the University of Nebraska about central.
[01:12:33.443]We do have to figure out how we put
[01:12:34.713]more of our central resources into those pools
[01:12:38.010]to seed and support some of those areas as well.
[01:12:41.063]So far we've done it mostly with private money.
[01:12:44.441]So where you've seen graduate student growth happen.
[01:12:48.462]I'll use the plant sciences as an example.
[01:12:51.344]Private industry support with foundation support
[01:12:53.724]that's allowed us to support graduate students
[01:12:55.605]that we weren't able to support before.
[01:12:58.123]So it's been private money.
[01:12:59.645]We've got to figure out how we use
[01:13:00.980]some of our additional funds, you know public monies,
[01:13:04.440]to go into that as well.
[01:13:05.694]That was my point at the end about allocating
[01:13:08.502]those new resources as they do become available.
[01:13:12.264]Where are those directionally?
[01:13:15.047]We'll need to make those hard decisions as we move forward.
[01:13:20.882]Yep, Mike.
[01:13:24.541]How do you coordinate
[01:13:25.454]the infrastructure and resources
[01:13:28.855]that are needed to support the growth?
[01:13:31.536]I'm talking offices, laboratories,
[01:13:34.973]research and teaching classroom space,
[01:13:37.991]and student living quarters.
[01:13:40.151]Yep.
[01:13:42.500]I don't mean to put the fear into you,
[01:13:46.053]but I spend a lot of time in meetings now
[01:13:48.409]thinking about next fall, at the campus level,
[01:13:53.587]and really good news, the really good news
[01:13:56.162]is we are significantly up in admits,
[01:13:59.703]we are significantly up in deposits.
[01:14:02.546]And if all tracks according to what we expect it to,
[01:14:06.687]based on where we are this time this year,
[01:14:09.939]we'll be up four to 500 freshman students next fall.
[01:14:15.271]Campus wide.
[01:14:17.003]Now, there's a lot of time between now and April,
[01:14:19.678]but nonetheless, we're gonna be up
[01:14:21.872]in our enrollment next fall in a significant way.
[01:14:26.016]We have a problem with that because
[01:14:29.258]dormitory wise and student housing wise,
[01:14:31.430]we have a capacity issue there.
[01:14:33.775]So Cather and Pound, right?
[01:14:35.435]We've talked about Cather and Pound
[01:14:36.677]are gonna be demolished for the last number of x years.
[01:14:40.032]There's now a new dining facility being built
[01:14:42.098]north of the new dormitories there on 17th Street
[01:14:45.116]that will replace the Cather Pound dining facility.
[01:14:47.950]The idea was those would come down in 2017.
[01:14:52.048]We may not be able to do that.
[01:14:55.639]We may actually need those facilities,
[01:14:58.244]which is a really good problem to have.
[01:15:00.520]But that's one example, Mike,
[01:15:02.203]about how we've got to think out ahead of this capacity.
[01:15:06.081]Right now we're thinking about
[01:15:07.683]instructional needs for fall, of next fall,
[01:15:10.863]of where we see this increased growth
[01:15:12.837]in freshman students coming to,
[01:15:15.321]and how are going to fund those new instructional needs?
[01:15:19.094]I will say it, I've said it publicly,
[01:15:21.776]I've said it to my boss,
[01:15:23.657]we've got to think differently about
[01:15:25.322]the revenue model on tuition
[01:15:26.726]at the University of Nebraska.
[01:15:29.129]We do.
[01:15:30.188]We've got to think about that differently.
[01:15:31.883]Now whether my next boss
[01:15:32.999]will figure that out or not, I don't know.
[01:15:35.611]But we've got to think differently about that
[01:15:37.994]because more of those funds
[01:15:39.364]have got to be put back into the instructional base,
[01:15:42.649]in the growth piece at least,
[01:15:45.632]where we grow that student population.
[01:15:47.630]So there's a lot of big thinking there.
[01:15:50.184]We've been able to,
[01:15:52.830]I guess fortunately manage our growth in,
[01:15:57.010]now I'm talking about IANR specifically,
[01:15:59.691]over the last five years because of Innovation Campus,
[01:16:02.907]to be very candid about it.
[01:16:05.750]The opportunity to move food science.
[01:16:08.488]That wasn't the reason we did it,
[01:16:09.614]we didn't move food science because
[01:16:11.007]we needed to free up East Campus.
[01:16:13.909]We moved them there because
[01:16:15.156]the reasons we wanted them there in partnerships,
[01:16:18.000]but that result saved us
[01:16:22.296]on capacity on the campus.
[01:16:26.092]In the short term.
[01:16:28.682]We're actually bumped up
[01:16:29.723]right against the lemon, if you will,
[01:16:32.359]when we finish this hiring process.
[01:16:34.762]We're building a 382 student dormitory.
[01:16:38.324]I thought a lot over the weekend
[01:16:40.715]about whether that's enough.
[01:16:45.004]That's a little bit hard to imagine.
[01:16:47.296]We worked really hard to actually get one,
[01:16:50.212]and get this new dormitory.
[01:16:51.988]Didn't think we would.
[01:16:54.333]Right, Steve?
[01:16:55.103]You tell me that you thought,
[01:16:57.019]you know you'd (stammers).
[01:16:59.004]I won't tell 'em what you said
[01:17:00.281]you'd do if the dormitory happened.
[01:17:02.347](audience laughs)
[01:17:03.411]But you know it's hard to believe
[01:17:05.453]that there's a crane building that dormitory
[01:17:07.240]and we got to be thinking about maybe is that enough.
[01:17:11.037]Do we have those sort of resources?
[01:17:13.911]With that said, it has to be in relation
[01:17:15.321]to all the building that's going on in Lincoln.
[01:17:18.567]It's not a simple question.
[01:17:20.970]There's a lot of building off the campus as well.
[01:17:25.536]Just some thoughts.
[01:17:27.027]Yeah, Jim.
[01:17:27.576]In regards to the increase
[01:17:29.782]in graduate enrollment,
[01:17:31.999]you're probably, I'm sure you're aware
[01:17:34.356]that there's this concern nationally
[01:17:37.385]about are we training too many PhDs,
[01:17:40.984]at least PhDs to go off and become academics,
[01:17:44.560]where that market's obviously,
[01:17:47.079]cannot accommodate all these.
[01:17:49.115]And so there is thought about maybe
[01:17:51.541]we should train people a little bit differently
[01:17:55.344]so they have other options.
[01:17:57.292]I don't know whether that plays
[01:17:58.997]into your thoughts at all--
[01:18:00.255]Well, I got this problem with double hats,
[01:18:03.394]so I'm gonna focus on IANR here for this audience.
[01:18:08.337]I don't see that as a big issue on the IANR side
[01:18:13.706]'cause on the IANR side I think there is a need
[01:18:16.231]for pulling forward those people
[01:18:18.634]with master's and PhD degrees,
[01:18:21.293]that is academic and non-academic.
[01:18:24.799]There's a big pull there for those
[01:18:26.718]kinds of people and their training.
[01:18:29.656]At a more general level, like you point out,
[01:18:32.725]at a more general level in the debate
[01:18:34.536]about higher ed and graduate education
[01:18:37.322]and number of doctoral candidates that are coming out,
[01:18:40.515]there are certainly areas that are big concerns there.
[01:18:46.795]We might touch a couple of those,
[01:18:48.081]but I don't think that's the core of where we are.
[01:18:50.844]We're more in a deficit area, that's my personal belief,
[01:18:54.559]than we are in a surplus area for any time to come.
[01:18:59.017]That becomes a problem when you think about it
[01:19:00.705]at the aggregate campus level though.
[01:19:03.874]How you prioritize and strategically think about
[01:19:06.405]where that graduate student growth needs to be
[01:19:09.214]and how you do that.
[01:19:11.153]Does that make sense, Jim?
[01:19:13.591]Yeah, you had another thought I can tell.
[01:19:15.500]Well, I mean I think it's a matter
[01:19:18.032]of possibly exposing students to other options
[01:19:22.349]as they get their PhD.
[01:19:23.975]I think that's part--
[01:19:25.298]Right, right.
[01:19:26.331]The circumstance we tend not to do,
[01:19:28.402]at least some of us do I think.
[01:19:30.004]Right.
[01:19:30.956]Right, we think at it, you're training
[01:19:33.015]the replacement of the academy, so to speak.
[01:19:39.678]Other comments, Jill you didn't have anything online?
[01:19:43.740]Okay, well thank you very, very much.
[01:19:45.556]You've been attentive as always.
[01:19:48.230]I got it down to one hour and 15 minutes.
[01:19:51.839]Spring I'll get it down to one hour.
[01:19:54.138]Thank you very much.
[01:19:55.119](audience applauds)

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