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Ronnie Green and guest Mike Boehm discuss the Growing Nebraska summit held in Lincoln in November. The event was an opportunity to bring Nebraskans together with university faculty, staff and leaders to talk about ways to move Nebraska forward.

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[00:00:00.206](slow, funky music)
[00:00:02.760]Welcome back, countdown to kickoff here
[00:00:03.985]on the Huskers Sports Network,
[00:00:05.097]and as we do each and every week during our pre-game,
[00:00:06.922]a chance to sit down with University
[00:00:08.216]of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:11.446]I cannot believe this is the final game of the season.
[00:00:13.498]It's just flown by to me. I think they always do that.
[00:00:16.509]So, that's amazing and by the way, happy Thanksgiving.
[00:00:19.209]Hope ya got a little turkey in ya.
[00:00:20.288]Happy Thanksgiving to you, Greg,
[00:00:21.637]and all of our fans in Husker Nation.
[00:00:24.619]Ya know, the year has gone really, really fast
[00:00:27.086]and we've had a lot of things, as we always do,
[00:00:30.726]going on at the people's university here at UNL
[00:00:34.326]through the fall, ya know.
[00:00:36.613]And we've got so much happening in our research program,
[00:00:39.789]our teaching program.
[00:00:41.796]Ya know, we have brought on, as you know,
[00:00:45.222]a new leadership this past year.
[00:00:47.032]We've talked about that several times throughout the year,
[00:00:50.506]about our new vice-chancellors that have joined us, ya know.
[00:00:54.823]And I used to have
[00:00:56.199]this greatest-job-in-the-world kind of thing
[00:00:57.892]that was called the vice-chancellor of the Institute
[00:01:00.730]of Ag and Natural Resources,
[00:01:02.449]and get to lead that great enterprise,
[00:01:04.364]that is so important to this state and to this university
[00:01:07.684]and is a world leader in itself.
[00:01:10.748]Ya know, Coach Cook, ya know he talks about, he says
[00:01:13.886]about coaching, he wants to put so much time
[00:01:15.523]into his energy and his work.
[00:01:17.682]He wants it to be a place that people really care about.
[00:01:22.029]Well, this guy here, that you're gonna get to hear from
[00:01:24.646]today, he may not be a native Nebraskan,
[00:01:28.357]but he's come and joined this team,
[00:01:30.881]is leading our Institute of Ag and Natural Resources.
[00:01:34.238]Couldn't be more happy to have Mike Boehm
[00:01:36.010]here with us today.
[00:01:37.054]It's always fun to have a guest with you
[00:01:38.677]on this segment, and Vice-Chancellor and System
[00:01:40.806]Vice-President for the Institute
[00:01:42.124]of Ag and Natural Resources.
[00:01:43.693]Mike, great to have you with us.
[00:01:44.990]I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
[00:01:46.498]Ah, yeah, absolutely.
[00:01:48.385]I love this time of the year.
[00:01:49.749]It's a chance to reflect and be thankful.
[00:01:53.049]I couldn't be more thankful to be here, as Ronnie said,
[00:01:56.036]what an opportunity, and it does seem like this year
[00:01:58.947]has just flown.
[00:02:00.269]You're a salesman, sailor, not a salesman.
[00:02:02.782](men laughing)
[00:02:03.665]You still have your boat?
[00:02:04.673](Greg and Mike cross-talking)
[00:02:05.683]I still have my boat in the water
[00:02:07.450]and yesterday was chance to get it out one last time,
[00:02:11.121]but I think my neighbors think I'm crazy, Greg, absolutely.
[00:02:14.275]Not at all.
[00:02:15.203]Well, it's great to have you here with us today.
[00:02:16.612]You started 2017, Mike, and also, University's Chief
[00:02:21.296]Academic Officer Donde Plowman did Nebraskans
[00:02:23.480]with more than a dozen community visits.
[00:02:25.200]She went around this state earlier this month.
[00:02:28.043]The university offered to host, by inviting Nebraskans
[00:02:31.404]to come here to Lincoln to explore critical issues
[00:02:33.724]in the state.
[00:02:34.557]What can you tell us about this effort?
[00:02:36.251]Yeah absolutely. So, I had been around.
[00:02:39.221]I had been to 80 counties.
[00:02:40.761]When I interviewed, Ronnie was in the audience
[00:02:43.607]and I was standing on the stage and said,
[00:02:46.236]I'm gonna get to every single county in my first year.
[00:02:49.809]And he looked and started laughing and chuckling,
[00:02:52.534]so, the clock is ticking.
[00:02:54.613]I have a little over a month to hit those last 13.
[00:02:57.576]So, this was a little bit of an inverted visit, I guess.
[00:03:02.915]We invited as many people as we could get to Lincoln
[00:03:07.584]to something we called The Growing Nebraska Summit.
[00:03:10.358]This was a first time, I think,
[00:03:12.655]that we've tried anything like this.
[00:03:15.037]In February, while the snow was still on the ground,
[00:03:17.910]I asked my team to find the largest venue they could, Greg,
[00:03:21.216]to bring together the best minds Nebraska had,
[00:03:24.626]to really come together and think about the critical issues
[00:03:27.514]that face Nebraska that we need to be paying attention to,
[00:03:31.671]as the public, land-grant, flagship university
[00:03:34.582]to really move the needle.
[00:03:36.031]And I'm happy to say that, I think they thought I was crazy
[00:03:39.437]at the time, as the calendar months went on,
[00:03:43.375]they were wondering, hey, is this really happening?
[00:03:45.670]But in the end, we attracted 441 Nebraskans.
[00:03:51.523]And those 441 folks came from 53 different counties,
[00:03:55.851]from 75 different towns across Nebraska.
[00:03:59.210]And what this was gave us a chance to showcase
[00:04:02.252]some of the work that our faculty are engaged in
[00:04:06.023]and some of the things our students are working on.
[00:04:08.692]We focused in four areas: creating a better quality of life,
[00:04:12.948]educating tomorrow's learners through school and university
[00:04:16.103]and community partnerships,
[00:04:18.282]the third area was igniting a passion
[00:04:20.289]for creative solutions, and the last segment of the day
[00:04:23.449]was really focused on feeding a growing world,
[00:04:27.189]really starting here at home
[00:04:28.901]and thinking about food security and how we raise food
[00:04:31.630]and do that in a sustainable manner.
[00:04:34.432]We had just a fantastic time, but as I said
[00:04:36.768]prior to the event, this wasn't a come and be talked at
[00:04:39.834]kind of a session.
[00:04:41.463]We spent as much time in groups, around tables,
[00:04:45.890]round tables chatting with each other and it was just
[00:04:50.313]an amazing, amazing day.
[00:04:52.735]And after we worked everybody pretty hard,
[00:04:55.531]we ended the day having Dairy Store ice cream.
[00:04:57.859]Oh boy.
[00:04:58.692]So, what a great ending.
[00:05:00.253]Although with the pumpkin pie on board right now,
[00:05:03.016]Dairy ice cream seems like a stretch.
[00:05:05.800]But it was just an awesome day, and ya know, little things
[00:05:09.153]like our nametags, it was little fun things.
[00:05:12.557]The nametags basically said, hi, I'm Mike Boehm,
[00:05:16.290]I'm a Nebraskan from, and then people had the chance
[00:05:19.747]to fill in the blank and so it was a chance for us really
[00:05:23.291]to come together at this reflective time of the year,
[00:05:26.848]as Nebraskans first and foremost,
[00:05:29.241]to think about moving Nebraska forward.
[00:05:31.821]Putting on something that is a big undertaking
[00:05:34.556]to do it, and then you go through it, and then at night,
[00:05:37.148]you can sit back and reflect on it.
[00:05:39.345]What did you take away from this,
[00:05:41.073]now that you've experienced this?
[00:05:42.990]Yeah, that's first of all, thanks to everybody
[00:05:44.905]who had a hand in pulling this off because right,
[00:05:47.407]it was my crazy idea.
[00:05:48.858]Without the amazing women and men of the IANR,
[00:05:51.994]this wouldn't have happened,
[00:05:53.262]and without our colleagues and our partners.
[00:05:57.009]I wanted to definitely say, of the 441, 2/3 of the folks
[00:06:00.796]were from the university, but a third of the participants
[00:06:03.603]had no affiliation directly with the university,
[00:06:05.952]so, that was pretty amazing, and it couldn't have
[00:06:08.697]happened without the citizenry getting engaged.
[00:06:11.937]So, we have, first, if people are interested,
[00:06:14.758]they can go and watch presentations.
[00:06:16.859]Just Google, IANR Growing Nebraska Summit,
[00:06:20.348]and the talks are there.
[00:06:22.409]They're very much like TED Talks, so they're quick
[00:06:25.162]and they're light-witted and very light but impactful.
[00:06:31.477]So, we've got those types of data.
[00:06:33.533]We also asked a lot of questions.
[00:06:35.917]We've used a lot of technology.
[00:06:37.341]We took polls, real, interactive polls.
[00:06:40.459]So, we've collected all of this data
[00:06:42.275]and what we're using this now is to really ground truth,
[00:06:46.267]that we're on the right path.
[00:06:47.719]I think we are, but now we're actually using this
[00:06:50.668]to refine our strategic visioning document,
[00:06:54.706]to ensure that as the Institute goes forward,
[00:06:57.411]that we're on the right path and we're very excited
[00:07:00.831]as the university will be celebrating its 150th birthday
[00:07:04.996]next year, we at the university,
[00:07:08.716]through Ronnie's leadership and Donde's partnership
[00:07:11.154]with me and leadership, we are really working
[00:07:14.522]on not only celebrating our 150th birthday,
[00:07:17.580]but really thinking about the vision going forward.
[00:07:20.138]Fantastic.
[00:07:21.029]And Ronnie, just a wonderful outreach
[00:07:22.801]to the state to get input about what's going on out there
[00:07:26.039]and again, as we're getting ready to celebrate
[00:07:28.137]a big anniversary, good to get this feedback, isn't it?
[00:07:30.375]Oh, absolutely. I mean, we're 149 years counting
[00:07:34.179]on 150, and we're looking out to what this next 150
[00:07:38.106]is going to look like for us in meeting our mission
[00:07:41.086]as the people's university.
[00:07:42.556]So, great Thanksgiving. Hope we have a great game today.
[00:07:45.584]Welcome to the Hawkeyes.
[00:07:47.455]Couldn't be happier to have leadership
[00:07:49.376]like we have from Mike.
[00:07:50.967]And happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
[00:07:52.841]Great. Mike Boehm, great to see you as well.
[00:07:54.447]Have a great rest of your weekend.
[00:07:55.847]Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, and go Big Red.

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