-: Hi, thank you, Ben.
Delighted to be joined now
by University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chancellor Ronnie Green,
is Oscar's,
Last weekend the university
had its big commencement ceremony,
I know that's one of your favorite times of the year,
and it was quite an event.
What can you tell us about this year's graduation events?
-: Well, you know that my favorite,
absolute favorite thing in the year
is when we graduate students from the university.
Close is when students start,
but the most exciting is when they graduate,
and you see the whole world out in front of them.
Couldn't be more proud at this point,
and our state's land-grant University
and what we're doing to prepare that workforce
out there ahead of us.
And so the graduation's a special moment,
there's just nowhere around it.
As someone who was the first in my family
to attain a college degree,
or to have that opportunity to receive a college degree,
it's just a special moment for me
every time I see that happen.
So we've just come off of graduating 3100,
in our graduating class this spring,
so we were great to see,
it was great to see their families around commencement,
and to celebrate that achievement.
We're gonna continue to need more talent in this state.
And the graduates that we're producing,
that come to us from across Nebraska,
come to us from outside the state of Nebraska,
around the country and internationally,
they come here looking for a big 10 education,
they get a very distinctive high-quality education here,
they make connections here
that will last a lifetime for them.
And that's part of the reason
that we see our university growing,
is the increased perception and awareness
of the quality of that education
that they're able to receive here,
and in turn, our ability to help grow the state,
through those graduates of the university as well.
-: I'm sure a lot of the folks in our audience heard this,
but you had a high-profile speaker
to talk to the undergraduates at the ceremony,
from the internet social media world.
And this speaker, with Nebraska ties,
that even made it better.
-: Yeah, it was kind of a cool deal,
because I like to read a lot up on news now
and follow the world on Twitter.
And our speaker was one of the co-founders of Twitter
when Evan Williams came,
and was part of our commencement ceremony,
delivered the commencement address,
received an honorary doctorate degree from the university.
Evan's one of the 100 most influential people in the world,
as Time Magazine's list here recently.
He's kind of a cool deal.
He got his honorary doctorate degree,
grew up in Clarks, Nebraska, Northeast Nebraska.
And we had a graduate from Clarks, Nebraska,
receive her Bachelor of Arts degree,
and the Lincoln is part of the commencement ceremony,
so that was kind of a special moment there as well.
And in fact, the commencement address that Evan gave,
talked to graduates
from more than 250 locales around the state of Nebraska,
42 different states represented
in our graduates in this class,
52 countries around the world.
So this global reaching land-grant university here
that we're so proud to be part of,
is having impact all over the world.
-: It's a moment in the ceremony they will all remember
for the rest of their lives.
Congratulations on another successful school year,
and I look forward to seeing you again down the road.
-: And go Big Red.
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