Chancellor Ronnie Green delivers the 2016 State of the University Address
The State of the University Address is a speech given at the outset of the academic year to celebrate the achievements of the past and to set expectations and aspirations for the upcoming year.
2017 State of the University Address – Chancellor Ronnie Green
“This mission has never been more important in our 149-year history than today – in all three mission areas. Higher education has never been more needed for career success, nor research and innovation to better understand and improve the human and natural environmental condition. And I would dare to wager that there have been few times over the past 15 decades where understanding the benefits of higher education and the academe’ for the general public – i.e. translating our value – has been more in demand than today.”
2016 State of the University Address – Chancellor Ronnie Green
“It’s a real privilege that we have, as we settle in to the 2016-17 year for us here, to take a breath, to step back, to assess, to take stock of the progress of our university and, this year in particular, I would say perhaps equally importantly, to look out to the future of our great university.”
One of the biggest issues facing us today is how we’ll feed the ever increasing population of the earth. In this talk, Ronnie Green discusses how he believes this can happen.
Ronnie Green discusses the May commencement, which featured the largest graduating class in university history, and specifically the undergraduate ceremony highlighted by an address by Oscar-winning filmmaker and Omaha native Alexander Payne. Ronnie Green also discusses the university's record number of student Fulbright awards and the first-ever Nebraska faculty member to be named a Carnegie Fellow.