Countdown to Kickoff interview – Minnesota

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05/01/2017 Added

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Discussion of preparing students for graduate school, pre-professional advising and programs, Alumni Masters Week, fall 2016 Nebraska Lecture (Kwame Dawes), and the Sheldon Art Museum's Digital Archive.

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[00:00:02.314]Welcome back.
[00:00:03.147]Countdown to Kickoff here on the Huskers Sports Network.
[00:00:04.653]We're headed to a 6:36 kick tonight
[00:00:06.818]between the Huskers and the Golden Gophers of Minnesota.
[00:00:09.575]Delighted to be joined
[00:00:10.408]by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor.
[00:00:12.949]Ronnie Green, great to see you.
[00:00:14.145]Another beautiful week weather-wise around Lincoln.
[00:00:16.543]And so often we think about students going off to college,
[00:00:19.689]we think about how that will prepare them
[00:00:21.596]for, ultimately, a career.
[00:00:23.600]For many of the students,
[00:00:24.676]it's another step beyond just the four years at UNL.
[00:00:27.725]Let's talk about prepping folks for graduate school.
[00:00:30.466]Well Greg, you know we talk a lot
[00:00:33.068]about how many students we have.
[00:00:35.025]And we've talked a lot this season
[00:00:36.876]about our enrollment being up at the university
[00:00:39.548]and how excited we are about that.
[00:00:40.852]But there's the other end of that, right?
[00:00:42.124]About how many we graduate,
[00:00:44.630]how many we prepare to go into their professional life.
[00:00:47.353]And so we invest a lot of effort in student success
[00:00:51.483]and assuring that our students will be successful
[00:00:53.723]and graduate with an important UNL degree.
[00:00:57.250]One of the things we're really proud of,
[00:00:59.664]an area that we have seen a recent highlight on
[00:01:02.363]is our students in the pre-health professions area.
[00:01:05.188]So think about pre-medicine, pre-pharmacy, pre-nursing,
[00:01:09.942]the areas of the health professions.
[00:01:13.128]And we excel there.
[00:01:14.972]So if you look at our pre-professional advising program
[00:01:18.406]that we have, it's very successful
[00:01:21.016]in that our undergraduates at Nebraska
[00:01:23.990]really surpass the national average
[00:01:26.180]for early admittance into med schools, for example.
[00:01:31.462]In the last four years, we've had an average at 66%
[00:01:36.747]of our pre-med students gaining early admission
[00:01:40.407]into the medical schools.
[00:01:43.202]The national average is about 50.
[00:01:45.213]So we're very proud of that
[00:01:47.494]and proud of our students being successful.
[00:01:49.432]A lot of those, not all of them, but a lot of them
[00:01:51.813]going to the University of Nebraska Medical Center
[00:01:54.022]and our very own University of Nebraska students.
[00:01:56.929]So we're attracting those very talented students.
[00:01:59.695]We're providing them with really valuable
[00:02:01.568]pre-med, pre-health education.
[00:02:05.188]And then they're being very successful getting into
[00:02:07.378]these very hard-to-get-into professional schools.
[00:02:10.615]So very proud of that.
[00:02:12.112]Speaking of having success after graduation,
[00:02:14.953]this past week was Masters Week.
[00:02:16.550]Tell us more about Masters Week.
[00:02:18.626]Well, the Nebraska Alumni Association
[00:02:21.359]every year invites distinguished alumni
[00:02:24.422]back from our non-academic colleges.
[00:02:26.435]And we call it Alumni Masters Week,
[00:02:29.158]where they come and they spend the best part of the week
[00:02:31.952]on campus with us in the colleges
[00:02:34.883]they're an alma mater from.
[00:02:36.136]So we have people in arts and sciences and in education
[00:02:40.088]and business, engineering, and ag, and journalism, law,
[00:02:44.361]across the board, fine and performing arts,
[00:02:46.535]where they come back
[00:02:47.682]and they actually interact with our students.
[00:02:49.342]They go and they teach classes,
[00:02:51.014]they participate in activities
[00:02:52.655]with our students through the week,
[00:02:54.739]bringing their careers and their professional experience
[00:02:58.078]into the classroom with our students.
[00:03:01.316]And then it's culminated every year
[00:03:02.923]in a Big Medallion Dinner, we call it.
[00:03:05.609]It was held last night
[00:03:07.397]for our current crop of alumni masters.
[00:03:10.156]Every year I hear them say the same thing.
[00:03:12.246]They did last night.
[00:03:13.495]They talk about how invigorating it is to be back on campus,
[00:03:16.931]and how invigorating it is to interact with our students,
[00:03:19.904]how impressed they are with our students,
[00:03:21.820]how optimistic they are about the future
[00:03:24.874]based on those students.
[00:03:26.648]And this year's group did the same thing last night.
[00:03:28.819]So very, very proud of them.
[00:03:31.478]A tradition that's been going on for more than 50 years
[00:03:34.354]here at the university.
[00:03:35.409]Celebrated that 50th year last year
[00:03:37.705]of the Alumni Masters Program.
[00:03:40.226]We have addressed this in the past,
[00:03:42.466]but I wanted to bring it up again,
[00:03:43.638]about on-campus speakers that you have.
[00:03:46.194]And I know this past week you had the Fall Nebraska Lecture.
[00:03:49.341]Tell us about all that.
[00:03:50.708]Well, the Nebraska Lecture's considered
[00:03:52.001]one of the biggest honors of our faculty
[00:03:54.883]who are selected to give the Nebraska Lecture,
[00:03:57.232]one in the fall.
[00:03:58.123]And one in the spring's kind of considered
[00:03:59.822]the Chancellor's Lecture, if you will.
[00:04:02.982]And the Nebraska Fall Lecture was this past week.
[00:04:07.178]On Thursday, we had Professor Kwame Dawes
[00:04:09.798]from our English Department
[00:04:11.824]as this year's Nebraska Lecturer.
[00:04:14.361]He's the editor of our Prairie Schooner,
[00:04:17.303]a literary journal well known around the world.
[00:04:20.452]And he also has come to our campus several years ago
[00:04:24.086]as a leading international African poeticist.
[00:04:27.329]So he's considered, around the world,
[00:04:30.128]one of the top people in that field.
[00:04:32.802]So he brought that to the lecture podium, if you will,
[00:04:37.026]to talk about the African Poetry Book Fund
[00:04:41.465]and the work that they're doing there
[00:04:43.103]and the scholarship and creative activity
[00:04:45.082]that he and his group are contributing
[00:04:47.593]through our literary arts and in the English Department.
[00:04:52.343]We also have this thing of having a lot of creative activity
[00:04:56.224]around the arts themselves, right?
[00:04:59.153]So the fine arts.
[00:05:01.188]We're very proud of the fact
[00:05:02.570]that we have one of the leading collections
[00:05:04.502]of American contemporary art in the U.S. and in the world
[00:05:09.079]in our Sheldon Gallery here.
[00:05:11.841]It's just a block from downtown Lincoln,
[00:05:13.890]right on the edge of our city campus on R Street,
[00:05:16.372]driving right by the Lied Center for the Performing Arts.
[00:05:20.357]We also are really proud of the fact
[00:05:22.183]that we are currently in the process of completing
[00:05:25.715]a complete digital archive of that collection in the Sheldon
[00:05:30.500]so that they can be reviewable online.
[00:05:32.355]They can go there currently and see that collection
[00:05:36.336]of our paintings, of our photographs, of our sculptures
[00:05:39.359]that make up that Sheldon collection
[00:05:42.164]that's so revered around the world.
[00:05:43.750]So it's kind of a cost-effective way
[00:05:45.525]to bring that to the public,
[00:05:47.919]to bring it to the state,
[00:05:49.134]to bring it as part of our land-grant mission
[00:05:51.105]that we have to extend our reach out
[00:05:53.937]across Nebraska and the world
[00:05:55.698]and certainly doing that through the Sheldon.
[00:05:59.499]They can go and see that,
[00:06:00.799]SheldonArtMuseum.org, dot O-R-G,
[00:06:04.695]to be able to access those materials
[00:06:06.810]and learn more about that very famous museum
[00:06:09.595]that we have at UNL.
[00:06:11.010]Wonderful.
[00:06:11.843]Well, we appreciate the updates.
[00:06:12.676]Great to be back in Lincoln
[00:06:13.509]after a couple of road games for us.
[00:06:15.387]And I also saw you caught a little basketball this week.
[00:06:17.746]We're getting to that time of year, aren't we?
[00:06:18.956]Get back, go inside.
[00:06:19.947]Oh, we are.
[00:06:20.780]We're kind of in that transition zone
[00:06:22.875]where we've got a little bit of everything going on, right?
[00:06:24.558]Tell me about it.
[00:06:25.391]So we've got the volleyball continually going on.
[00:06:27.830]And we've got soccer that we have had in town this week.
[00:06:30.662]And we've got basketball starting up.
[00:06:32.610]So it's a pretty exciting time of year for us.
[00:06:35.370]Well, enjoy the week.
[00:06:36.203]Go Big Red.

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