Welcome. Welcome to the september meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Im david j. Kent on the president of the Lincoln Group of district of columbia. And this is kind of a special night because not only is our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom. We have a video being recorded and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln the fire of genius. So thank you. I know a lot of people like when are coming in and i really appreciate that. Im going to give a talk tonight about about lincoln and the fire and basically look at well, i just let me look at just the the the subtitle because that i think that really describes the book. Its however ham lincolns commitment to science and Technology Helped modernize america. So thats what im going to talk about tonight. And just to give you a little background, im going to talk about, i guess start with the book is really kind of the kind of piece set out in the three different sections. The first is like
We have such programs here in nebraska between our different campuses, between the Community Colleges and our state and the university. We actually have a unique program where we are piloting reverse transfer of credit back to Trinity College is so someone who did not complete their Associates Degree in actually used some of their University Courses for that purpose. The more dialogue there is between institutions the more efficient it is in the more cost is reduced as you point out. Host dr. Linder you said earlier 300 million for research at the university of nebraska lincoln. What is the University Researching and what are the different areas and what is the main focus . Guest obviously there are a variety of areas but being that we are in an agricultural state some of our focuses are on how you properly use Water Resources and how you grow food with less water. We face a population crisis in this world. We will have more and more mouths that need to be fed and they need to be fed t
Well, i think that compensation of football coaches is very high. And each university exists in a marketplace, unfortunately. Having a cap on football coaches salaries would be an interesting national discussion. But its not one i want to participate in. Why not . You sound reluctant. Explain that. I think that the question about capping any professions salary, whether its a coach, entertaining, ceo is a more complex discussion than we could take on this morning. But we do live in a marketplace. If youre trying to attract top tier coaches at any school, youre competing with those coaches for the employment of those coaches with other schools and i think thats whats driven these salaries to a level where they are. Dr. Linder at the university of nebraska lincoln, what is the state of tenured professors . How many do you have . How does the process work . At the university of nebraska lincoln, the tenure density is around 60 . And the process at the university of nebraska lincoln is a fa
Well, i think that compensation of football coaches is very high. And each university exists in a marketplace, unfortunately. Having a cap on football coaches salaries would be an interesting national discussion. But its not one i want to participate in. Why not . You sound reluctant. Explain that. I think that the question about capping any professions salary, whether its a coach, entertaining, ceo is a more complex discussion than we could take on this morning. But we do live in a marketplace. If youre trying to attract top tier coaches at any school, youre competing with those coaches for the employment of those coaches with other schools and i think thats whats driven these salaries to a level where they are. Dr. Linder at the university of nebraska lincoln, what is the state of tenured professors . How many do you have . How does the process work . At the university of nebraska lincoln, the tenure density is around 60 . And the process at the university of nebraska lincoln is a fa
About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, thank you very much greta. Its a pleasure to be with you today and i appreciate the fact that youre doing this service to educate students and the public at large about the importance of Higher Education. The university of nebraska system as four campuses, one of which is the university of nebraska lincoln, which is a big ten school. It has a little over 25,000 students. There are 51,000 students in the entire system. And that actually represents record enrollment for us. And the cost of an educ