Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highest increase in enrollment this year. Were talking with dr. James linder, the interim president , university of nebraska, lincoln, part of cspan bus Big Ten College tour. We kicked that off this week. Monthlong series of interviews here on the washington journal with University President s. On friday the bus will be at the university of iowa and we will talk with the president there, sally mason, on friday. This morning, though, dr. James linder aboard the cspan bus in lincoln, nebraska. Charles i
Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program out to them. So that they can have access to doctoral education and policy studies. Even though i live in a metropolitan area, even though we are located in a metropolitan area, we have to reach out to them. We are held to the same standards, texas is one of the 25 states with performance funding. We are held to the same standards of needing outcomes as other universities like the university of texas at austin that served half as many lowincome students or fewer and we serve over twice as many lat
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