Football interview - Colorado

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09/10/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about Nebraska athletics' tradition of being on the cutting edge. Green also talks about the innovative Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, which is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its naming this fall.

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[00:00:00.857](upbeat hip-hop music)
[00:00:02.550]Welcome back Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:00:04.060]Time for our weekly chat with the chancellor
[00:00:05.960]of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:08.078]I thought Scott Frost put it the best over this week.
[00:00:10.340]He said, "well, we got all dressed up last week
[00:00:11.977]"and nowhere to go."
[00:00:13.230]It was disappointing but man, what a,
[00:00:15.400]you had to feel the energy.
[00:00:16.878]Oh what an environment, right?
[00:00:19.460]I think everybody felt it,
[00:00:21.060]leading up to the day certainly,
[00:00:23.543]over these last number of months.
[00:00:26.300]And then when you were in that stadium you couldn't help
[00:00:29.290]but feel the energy and the excitement
[00:00:31.550]about the start of the season that you know,
[00:00:33.912]will start this weekend.
[00:00:36.050]We're looking forward to a,
[00:00:37.240]it was a great day with mother nature playing a hand.
[00:00:41.300]Today Colorado, long time rival of Nebraska.
[00:00:43.350]You spent some time at CSU,
[00:00:44.790]so I'm sure that was a rivalry for CSU too.
[00:00:46.660]Yeah, a little bit.
[00:00:49.750]Didn't do so well over in my alma mater last weekend
[00:00:52.243]but, yeah absolutely.
[00:00:54.570]And we actually lived in Colorado for 10 years
[00:00:57.160]and got to attend all the Husker games
[00:00:59.800]when they were out in Boulder so.
[00:01:03.300]Well welcome to the Buffaloes.
[00:01:04.833]That's right.
[00:01:05.666]Well, the University of Nebraska chancellor's
[00:01:07.330]had a long roster of athletic departments,
[00:01:10.850]kind of the cutting edge of a lot of different things.
[00:01:13.710]Seems like, even more so this year,
[00:01:15.410]people are talking about Nebraska being
[00:01:16.750]on the cutting edge of some fun things.
[00:01:18.230]Do you get a sense of that?
[00:01:19.590]Oh absolutely, you know,
[00:01:20.530]big part of what we do is innovation.
[00:01:22.360]It's what a university is all about.
[00:01:25.290]And it's true for a athletic department as well
[00:01:28.450]as what we do across the entire university.
[00:01:31.330]Nebraska athletics, it's a critical part
[00:01:34.100]of helping our student athletes be as competitive
[00:01:36.610]as they can possibly be, whether that's
[00:01:38.510]in terms of facilities, whether it's in infrastructure,
[00:01:41.190]whether it's in the support that they receive.
[00:01:44.210]Coaches and staff and their efforts are continually
[00:01:46.606]innovating around our student athletes,
[00:01:49.760]including with technology as well that we apply.
[00:01:53.510]We're seeing a lot of renewed emphasis in that this year,
[00:01:57.570]with the hiring of Dave Ellis
[00:01:59.260]to run our Sports Nutrition Program
[00:02:01.140]for our student athletes across all sports.
[00:02:03.230]Very excited about him being added
[00:02:04.986]to our team and to our staff.
[00:02:07.511]Renewal in strength and conditioning,
[00:02:10.410]and our efforts there that
[00:02:11.776]we're already seeing the benefit from.
[00:02:15.240]Even down to the way that
[00:02:16.820]our football practices are being scheduled.
[00:02:18.920]I know there's been a lot of talk about that.
[00:02:21.040]Moving to morning practices that Coach Frost
[00:02:23.860]and his team are working on so,
[00:02:25.216]constantly kind of innovating,
[00:02:27.370]looking for ways for improvement in athletics,
[00:02:30.700]along with what we do in all of our research programs.
[00:02:34.340]And areas like water and food security,
[00:02:36.880]early childhood education and development,
[00:02:39.910]better understanding things like in nanosciences
[00:02:43.100]and application of research work.
[00:02:45.570]It's innovating everything from medicine
[00:02:47.990]down to modernization of life in general.
[00:02:52.120]So absolutely innovation is about what we do.
[00:02:55.420]Yeah people think of research when they think
[00:02:57.330]of innovation, but Nebraska's been
[00:02:59.040]pretty innovative in it's approach to
[00:03:00.720]a new academic program and teaching
[00:03:02.740]and preparing students for the future.
[00:03:04.840]Can you give me a example of that?
[00:03:06.610]Well, we were kind of innovators early on if you will.
[00:03:11.920]We just are celebrating this weekend,
[00:03:14.240]the 10th anniversary of the Raikes School
[00:03:16.530]of Computer Science and Management.
[00:03:18.620]A real gem of the University,
[00:03:22.020]that innovates in that it is an education program,
[00:03:26.570]cohort based, for very exceptional students,
[00:03:30.530]that brings together business, the management side,
[00:03:34.520]with computer science.
[00:03:36.400]Very unique nationally in doing that.
[00:03:39.410]It tracks very high achieving students
[00:03:41.630]to the University of Nebraska from all over the country.
[00:03:45.550]And they have a cohort based program
[00:03:48.780]where there are 35 students roughly per class.
[00:03:52.790]The Raikes School is very highly selective.
[00:03:56.679]Just to give you some idea,
[00:03:58.690]almost all of the Raikes school students
[00:04:00.780]have either a 35 or 36 near perfect ACT score.
[00:04:06.120]And things that we would see coming out of that effort
[00:04:09.170]are like Hudl, that we're now well familiar with.
[00:04:12.520]The very successful business that
[00:04:15.150]three Raikes school graduates founded,
[00:04:18.145]a number of years ago and has been so successful.
[00:04:21.630]So big celebration, just Thursday night.
[00:04:24.950]The 10th anniversary of the Raikes School.
[00:04:27.930]A very innovative approach
[00:04:29.870]in computer science and management.
[00:04:31.840]Nebraska chancellor Ronnie Green
[00:04:33.210]here on Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:04:34.320]You mention the name Hudl, that's pretty well known.
[00:04:36.490]What a great addition it's been to the community
[00:04:38.840]of Lincoln and it's been such a great program
[00:04:41.180]that was born out of the University.
[00:04:42.690]What are some facts about the Raikes School
[00:04:44.800]that maybe some Nebraskans are not familiar with?
[00:04:47.530]Well, as I mentioned, you know
[00:04:49.110]it's cohort based, so we have 35 to 40 students
[00:04:52.300]per each of our four classes.
[00:04:53.890]They actually live together in the Kauffman Center,
[00:04:57.810]on campus, in that cohort kind of learning model.
[00:05:03.723]A few key kind of success statistics.
[00:05:06.630]The students who enter the Raikes program
[00:05:09.380]have consistently been in the top 5% of their class.
[00:05:13.251]We usually average about 10 national merit finalists
[00:05:16.860]per class in the Raikes program.
[00:05:19.490]Total of 362 graduates over those 10 years.
[00:05:23.450]We're working coast to coast in the U.S.
[00:05:26.470]As well as in Nebraska here,
[00:05:28.350]as well as internationally around the world.
[00:05:31.740]At the end of their program,
[00:05:33.810]in their latter year of their program,
[00:05:36.140]they work in what's called design studio,
[00:05:38.370]where they work on contracted projects
[00:05:41.312]that are brought to the Raikes School as designed elements
[00:05:45.410]that they work together in groups and present.
[00:05:48.656]242 of those have been developed over those 10 years
[00:05:52.800]where real software applications are developed
[00:05:56.140]out of those design projects.
[00:05:57.710]More than 170 real world solutions have been developed
[00:06:01.330]for 70 Nebraska based organizations.
[00:06:04.020]We can't thank Jeff and Tricia Raikes enough.
[00:06:07.406]The Raikes School, named after the Raikes family.
[00:06:12.570]Jeff, a former executive of Microsoft,
[00:06:15.290]and former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
[00:06:19.240]with us today, for the game, and excited
[00:06:22.380]to recognize the 10th anniversary of
[00:06:24.570]this very successful element of the University.
[00:06:27.370]Oh fantastic, always great to have them back
[00:06:29.240]in Lincoln as well.
[00:06:30.320]Well enjoy today, let's get this season underway with a win.
[00:06:33.360]Absolutely, go big red.
[00:06:35.920]Matt Cody, we'll be back with you,
[00:06:37.113]with a big ten blitz that's coming up next.

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