[46], In 2008, the state of Nebraska voted to move the Nebraska State Fair from Lincoln, where it had been held since 1950, to Grand Island. As the twentieth century began, the university attempted to balance its identity as both a pragmatic, frontier establishment and an academic, intellectual institution. The University of NebraskaLincoln operates three campuses, which are laid out over a combined 2,815 acres (1,139ha). At the end of each academic year, the outgoing president appoints seven students to form the student court for the upcoming school year. [13], Campus construction began in September 1869 when the cornerstone of University Hall was laid at the corner of 11th and S Streets. Jake Drake was elected Nebraska's student body president on March 2, 2022. [112], Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Jordan Burroughs, Olympic gold medalist wrestler, Krlis Ulmanis, President and Prime Minister of Latvia, John J. Pershing, United States Army general, Public university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, "University of Nebraska" redirects here. He retired to return to teaching at the College of Law in 2016 and Ronnie D. Green was named his successor. NU's ROTC was led by John J. Pershing during his time as a professor of military science and tactics in the 1890s;[26] during World War I, Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Forces and became the only person to hold the rank General of the Armies of the United States during his own lifetime. By 1900 the campus had eleven fraternities and five sororities, and Nebraska established the Intrafraternity Council and Intrasorority Council to govern Greek life on campus.[107]. Other university art galleries include the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, the Kruger Collection, and the student-run MEDICI Gallery in Richards Hall. The nearby Great Plains Art Museum is home to the Christlieb Collection and features American western art and Americana. As much of the land originally allocated to the school was unsuitable for farming, 320 acres to the east of campus was purchased in 1874. Berringer, a Nebraska native, endeared himself to fans when filling in for injured starter Tommie Frazier in 1994. ", "American Universities Group Votes to Expel Nebraska", "Nebraska's Ouster Opens a Painful Debate Within the AAU", "Research universities group ends UNL's membership", "Outgoing UNL chancellor leaves with unmet goal: return Huskers to top", "Nebraska State Constitution Article VII-10", "UNL | Student Involvement | Student Organizations | Resources and Tools", "HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF THE LAND GRANT COLLEGE SYSTEM", "New University of NebraskaLincoln College of Business building to named Howard L. 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Voting members are elected by district to six-year terms; elections are held in even-numbered years. The Cornhuskers have two official mascots, Herbie Husker and Lil' Red. Osborne won another national championship in 1997, his third as a head coach, before retiring and naming longtime assistant Frank Solich his replacement. The new building was initially used to house cadets in the Army Specialized Training Program during World War II before opening for university use in 1945. Will Owen Jones, later the editor of the Nebraska State Journal (now Lincoln Journal Star), taught Nebraska's first journalism class in 1894. Ted Carter was named Nebraska's eighth full-time president on January 1, 2020. What became Nebraska Hall was purchased from the Elgin National Watch Company in 1958 and NU relocated most of its engineering programs there in 1971. Under Fairfield's watch, the University of Nebraska hired its first female faculty member, Ellen Smith (Smith Hall, built on campus in 1967 as a student residence hall, is named in her honor). [b][26] Because of his chemical expertise, Avery was asked to join the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in Washington, D.C., and during his absence the Board of Regents conducted "loyalty trials" against twelve faculty members accused of anti-American sentiment (all were exonerated of criminal activity, though a few were forced to resign for conduct detrimental to the university's reputation). [54][53] In Perlman's sixteen years, Nebraska fired four football head coaches and two athletic directors. It has prominent holdings in nineteenth-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early modernism, and contemporary art. Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history and has won forty-six conference championships, five national championships, and nine other national championships the school does not claim. [25] Ultimately, a statewide vote determined the university would remain in its original location, with funding prioritized for additional buildings on the Farm Campus (now East Campus). It was the university's first major conference transition since joining the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (later the Big Eight) in 1921. [18] Smith's hire highlighted the young university's relatively diverse group of students and faculty; this was done deliberately by the Board of Regents, which hoped to boost the school's enrollment and the city's population through immigration.

[64] Termed Farm Campus (commonly referred to as "The Farm"), it became home to many of Nebraska's agricultural programs. In the 202122 academic year, twenty-one percent of freshman males joined fraternities and twenty-six percent of freshman females joined sororities. It was home to more than just agricultural programs, including the College of Law, College of Dentistry, and Center for Hearing and Speech Disorders. Ronnie D. Green was named Nebraska's twentieth full-time chancellor on April 6, 2016. [111] Among these graduates are three Nobel laureates, four Pulitzer Prize winners, one Turing Award winner, twenty-two Rhodes Scholars, fifteen state governors, and twenty-three College Football Hall of Famers. The university erected a statue of Osborne and Berringer at Memorial Stadium. [13] Among these was University Library (now Architecture Hall), which was built in 1895 and is the oldest building on campus. The University of Nebraska Graduate College is a school-wide program, with the same dean and administration supporting each department. The original University of Nebraska campus was laid out on four city blocks in the northeast corner of the planned downtown Lincoln area, and for fifteen years comprised just one building, the four-story University Hall. Nebraska plays its home games at Memorial Stadium, where it has sold out every game since 1962. Nineteen of these teams participate in the Big Ten, while rifle is a member of the single-sport Patriot Rifle Conference and beach volleyball and bowling compete as independents. In February 2008, the Publications Board recognized The DailyER as an affiliated publication and approved the printing costs of the first three issues of the satirical paper. Many at Nebraska wished to construct an on-campus memorial dedicated to those lost in The Great War. Historically, the organization has inducted new members by tackling them in a secret ceremony. [32] The Board of Regents desperately campaigned to alumni and voters for support in the budget fight and was ultimately able to negotiate a more modest set of cuts for the 1933 and 1934 fiscal years. Despite its similarity in name, The DailyER is not affiliated with The Daily Nebraskan. The first expansion of what became known as City Campus occurred in 1908, when the school acquired land to the west to construct Nebraska Field. ASUN has thirteen committees: the Academic Committee, Appointments Board, Campus and Life Safety Committee, Committee for Fee Allocations, Communications Committee, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Environmental Leadership Program, Environmental Sustainability Committee, Freshmen Campus Leadership Associates, Government Liaison Committee, Green Fund Selection Committee, Student Services Committee, and Technology Fee Committee. The paper now operates mainly online, publishing only a monthly print copy. The median range of SAT scores was 550660 for critical reading and 540660 for math; the median range of ACT composite scores was 2228. [7] Among approximately 300,000 Nebraska alumni are three Nobel laureates, four Pulitzer Prize winners, one Turing Award winner, and twenty-two Rhodes Scholars. It was established in 1871 as the Monthly Hesperian Student and was published every weekday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer until 2017, when students voted to reduce the paper's funding. The university is organized into nine colleges: Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Human Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts, Journalism and Mass Communications, and Law. In 1909 it was separated from the Industrial College as the College of Agriculture. [63] It was one of twenty-five charter members of the Association of American Law Schools and is accredited by the American Bar Association. Nebraska is considered to have "very high research activity" based on the Carnegie Classification. Farm Campus has since become East Campus and is no longer on the outskirts of Lincoln as the area around it has developed, but is still home to most CASNR buildings. [45] Upon the retirement of Bob Devaney as athletic director in 1992, Spanier defied the wishes of Tom Osborne and hired Bill Byrne as Devaney's replacement. [29] The new stadium project was initially conceived as a combination gymnasium-stadium-war museum complex to be called the "Nebraska Soldiers and Sailors Memorial. There are seven traditional residence halls on City Campus: Abel, Harper, Kauffman Academic Residential Center, Sandoz, Schramm, Selleck Quadrangle, and Smith. [64] As enrollment increased following World War II, the university purchased lands owned by the Missouri Pacific Railroad to construct high-rise dormitories. A $63.5-million overhaul of East Stadium added six thousand seats and thirty-eight luxury boxes to Memorial Stadium; the Bob Devaney Sports Center, primarily a basketball venue from its opening in 1976 until 2013, was outfitted for use by Nebraska's volleyball program; and Pinnacle Bank Arena was constructed in downtown Lincoln. By the 1950s, the Municipal University of Omaha (now the University of Nebraska Omaha) was run-down and inadequately funded, threatening the existence of the school entirely. ", "Nebraska Historical Marker: The University of Nebraska", "Chancellor James Hulme Canfield: His Impact on the University of Nebraska", "Impact of World War I on The University of Nebraska-Lincoln", "George W. Norris and the New Deal in Nebraska 1933-1936", "An Era of Difficulty and Troubles: 1932-1933 Cash Strapped Times at a Prairie University", "Army Training Program Bids Farewell to Campus", "Obituary for Reuben G. Gustavson (Aged 81)", "Clifford Hardin, Who Cut Subsidies at Agriculture Dept., Dies at 94", "NET No More: PBS, NPR Stations Rebrand as Nebraska Public Media", "Clifford M. Hardin, University of Nebraska Chancellor, Sees Important Role for Research at Agriculture", "Game of the Century left lifetime of memories", "Ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier released from jail after two months", "EXPLAINER: A guide to Innovation Campus", "A tale of two arenas: What can Norman learn from Lincoln and Louisville? [22] More than 13,000 soldiers received language, medical, or engineering training before the program was shut down in 1944 to allow for the opening of Love Library, which had been used as a barracks. City Campus has two apartment-style halls (The Courtyards and The Village) and three suite-style halls (Eastside Suites, Knoll Residential Center, and University Suites). Nebraska's school of commerce was founded in 1913 and became the College of Business Administration in 1919. Since 1928, City Campus has been the headquarters of the National Society of Pershing Rifles, a military fraternal organization for college-level students. To reflect this, it was renamed East Campus, given its location a mile east of the downtown campus. [81] A significant expansion on the north side of the building was completed in 1972 and became known as Love Library North. The Board of Regents established the School of Agriculture in 1877 as part of the Industrial College, three years after the university was founded. Nebraska won its second consecutive national title the following year, in the process defeating archrival Oklahoma 3531 in what was dubbed "The Game of the Century".[44]. The next year, the nickname was officially adopted by the school. Hardin later said that after the Depression, he "felt the state needed something to rally around."[39]. The college completed the Mechanical Arts Building (later Stout Hall) in 1898, which served as its primary home for nearly eighty years. College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Andrews ambitiously sought funding for expansion; a 1904 investment from John D. Rockefeller led to the construction of The Temple, which still stands on campus. Nebraska opened what was initially a male-only facility, the Selleck Quadrangle, in 1954, and constructed Cather and Pound Halls in 1963 to house a rapidly expanding student body. The $10-million, 30,000-square-foot Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons were opened in 2016 on the first floor of Love Library North.[82][83][84]. [56], The university has nine colleges, combining to offer more than 150 undergraduate majors, twenty pre-professional programs, and one hundred graduate programs. Shortly after the second of these championships, backup quarterback Brook Berringer was killed in a plane crash days before the NFL Draft, where he was projected to be a mid-round pick. [42] Student leaders later praised Soshnik and anti-war professor Paul Olson for maintaining communication and allowing students to "vent their frustrations. Just a few years later it opened Abel and Sandoz Halls, still the largest residency complex on campus. Memorial Stadium was dedicated the following week to honor Nebraskans who served in the American Civil War, the SpanishAmerican War, and World War I. The university has been governed by the Board of Regents since 1871, whose members are elected by district to six-year terms. Fifteen alumni have been selected as Truman Scholars and in 2010 Nebraska was named a Truman Scholarship Honor Institution. The 249-acre (1.01km2) site was turned over to the university, which began construction of Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) in 2012. [33] He resigned in 1938, the same year Nebraska's student union opened on the corner of 14th and R Streets. Allen R. Benton was the first chancellor and Samuel Avery was the longest-tenured. The team won the National Competitive Drills in 1892 and soon changed its name to the "Pershing Rifles" in honor of Pershing. After a 2014 study determined it would cost $22.7 million to bring the facility up to code, and millions more to complete a modern renovation, Cather and Pound Halls were imploded on December 22, 2017. Though Nebraska was the first school in the region to formally organize a school for graduates, Initially, the head of the University of NebraskaLincoln was the "president" and the head of the state-wide system was the "chancellor." The nearby Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is a two-screen theater featuring primarily arthouse, independent, and documentary films. [22] In addition to its football team, several noteworthy campus organizations were founded around this time, including a debate team, the school's first fraternities and sororities, and the Society of Innocents (more commonly known as the Innocents Society). [80] Among 17,775 first-year applicants for the 202122 academic year, fifty-five percent were female and forty-five percent were male. [32] In response to the lack of available state funds throughout the Depression, the University of Nebraska Foundation was established in 1937 to serve as the school's primary fundraising arm. The school also offers programs through the University of Nebraska Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry and College of Nursing, and the Peter Kiewit Institute, which is managed in partnership with the Kiewit Corporation. [57] The department was renamed the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) in 1990. [36], Many new classes and programs were offered throughout the 1940s, most of them in the medical and engineering fields. [20] Canfield worked to make the high school-to-college transition as easy as possible for Nebraskans and traversed the state tirelessly to encourage students from all backgrounds to consider higher education. It is named after the thirteen popes named Innocent and each year inducts thirteen seniors (now male and female) based on academic achievement and leadership qualities. 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In 1970, the College of Engineering at the Lincoln campus absorbed the same department at the Omaha campus, The percentage of students who received an income-based federal, The percentage of students who are a part of the, General of the Armies of the United States, protested American involvement in the Vietnam War, national championship-winning football team, Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Chancellor of the University of NebraskaLincoln, NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, List of University of NebraskaLincoln people, "University of Nebraska Administration - History & Mission", "University of Nebraska-Lincoln - US News", "Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup", "Table 20. The university completed several large-scale construction projects throughout the late 1980s. The university's libraries combine to offer nearly four million volumes and are the only set of comprehensive research libraries in Nebraska. The University of NebraskaLincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Board of Regents was established by Nebraska State Constitution Article VII-10, which states "The general government of the University of Nebraska shall be vested in a board of not less than six nor more than eight regents, who shall be elected from and by districts as herein provided and three students of the University of Nebraska[f] who shall serve as nonvoting members. [9] Between its three campus locations (City Campus, East Campus, and Nebraska Innovation Campus) the university has over one hundred classroom buildings and research facilities. The school received a boost when the Second Morrill Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1890, providing annual funds for land-grant research universities to support agricultural departments. Over the next forty years, Devaney and his successor Tom Osborne created one of college football's great dynasties, claiming five national championships between them. East Campus is heavily landscaped, with the grounds functioning as a research mission of the university; they are administered as the UNL Botanical Garden and Arboretum,[67] which handles major plantings at both Cather Garden and Maxwell Arboretum. [64] The university used its last available allotment of original land to construct the Law College Building in 1911. It offers one of eighteen PGA Golf Management degree programs in the United States. Thirty-five representatives are elected by department to serve in the student senate. [70] Bordered by several athletic facilities which are technically a part of City Campus, Innovation Campus serves as a research hub for over forty public and private enterprises. [60] In 2020, Mabel Lee Hall was demolished to clear the site for the construction of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall; upon its completion, scheduled prior to the 202223 academic year, the new building will house CEHS. The abrupt departure of highly successful head coach Ewald O. Stiehm temporarily slowed this momentum, but by the early 1920s, with "the present athletic field as inadequate now as the old one was in 1907," the university began plans to build a new stadium on the site of Nebraska Field. [69] Several historic structures formerly used for the state fair were repurposed and modernized for university use. [38], By the mid-1950s, the University of Nebraska's enrollment surpassed 18,000, nearly triple what it was before the war. It is one of thirty-six United States business schools affiliated with the CFA Institute. University television network NETV (later Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, now Nebraska Public Media) was created in 1954, broadcasting over ninety hours of programming weekly. These terms were swapped in August of 1971, The University of NebraskaLincoln left the, The College of Engineering was established in 1877 as the Industrial College and was renamed in 1909. Among 2,654 transfer applicants for the 202122 academic year, sixty-three percent (1,675) were admitted and twenty-sixpercent (685) enrolled. [e], In 2011, Nebraska was removed as a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of research universities of which it had been a member since 1908. City Campus is home to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, a performing arts venue used primarily for orchestra concerts and theatre performances. [101][102][103] Following Osborne's retirement in 1997, Nebraska cycled through four head coaches before hiring state native Scott Frost in 2017.[104]. In this instance, Cornhuskers was used to refer to Iowa. Clifford M. Hardin was the first president and Ronald Roskens was the longest-tenured. [62] Though The Daily Nebraskan and The DailyER are independent of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, most of the papers' writers are journalism students. The College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) was established in 2003 when the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences was merged with Teachers College. It underwent extensive renovation and expansion in 1958, 1969, and 1999; a further $40-million project approved in 2019 was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[3], Seventy-six percent of UNL's undergraduates were classified as "white, non-Hispanic," 8.3 percent were Hispanic or Latino, 3.6 percent were Asian, 2.8 percent were black or African-American, and less than one percent were American Indian, native Alaskan, native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Nebraska State Journal (now Lincoln Journal Star) writer Cy Sherman began referring to the team as the Cornhuskers in 1899, and the nickname was officially adopted the following year. [40] The facilities for the new network were constructed on Farm Campus, which had grown considerably by the 1960s. [3] The high school grade point average of enrolled freshmen was 3.63. The Nebraska Legislature, faced with the prospect of its most populated city not having a major institute of higher learning of any kind, decided to merge the Municipal University with the larger University of Nebraska to form a state-wide university system and offer the Omaha school additional budget pools to draw from. [110] The paper is published monthly during the fall and spring semesters. [47], Nebraska announced on June 11, 2010 it would end its affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and accept an invitation to join the Big Ten. The college absorbed the engineering department from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1970; though the Omaha campus has its own facilities, its degree programs and funding come from Lincoln.