Breaking New President Announced - Dr. Jeff Gold

[nja13]

He's more impressive than our actual chancellor. I think the new one has a short contract. Could see Gold taking over his job in a couple years.

The university president is above the campus chancellors. Gold becoming UNL's chancellor would be a demotion.

 

[HughJanus]

The university president is above the campus chancellors. Gold becoming UNL's chancellor would be a demotion.

Not sure why I always thought it was the other way around

 

[Huskerbuck85]

Wait…I was told Turd left bc they would consider this guy. Now that he’s coming, is Turd back N?

 

[nja13]

Not sure why I always thought it was the other way around

Yeah, the president oversees the whole university system, all four campuses. Each campus has its own chancellor to oversee that campus.

 

[OmahaHusker]

Congrats on not being the douche waffle leaker!

I made that reply from a Village Inn so the waffle part is accurate tbh

 

[huskerj12]

Can't wait for Gold to steady the ship so I can go back to not knowing or caring about any of these big wigs anymore!

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Can't wait for Gold to steady the ship so I can go back to not knowing or caring about any of these big wigs anymore!

 

[Seaofred92]

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

My main takeaway from this article is that I don't have an on3 subscription.

 

[Juro]

My main takeaway from this article is that I don't have an on3 subscription.

Not the worst thing ever.

What’s our AAU potential for those who have it?

 

[Havoc34]

Not the worst thing ever.

What’s our AAU potential for those who have it?

(I actually have no idea)

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Not the worst thing ever.

What’s our AAU potential for those who have it?

He talks about how they lined up reporting of stuff to move us up from 120 to 60 in some metric that matters. Also talked about how this is a decade long process to try to get back in and even then they have to invite you.


My 2 cents is people need to put the AAU out of their mind because it ain't happening in the current environment.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

He talks about how they lined up reporting of stuff to move us up from 120 to 60 in some metric that matters. Also talked about how this is a decade long process to try to get back in and even then they have to invite you.


My 2 cents is people need to put the AAU out of their mind because it ain't happening in the current environment.

Explain this to me like I'm on the TPB and not Reddit.

"Ain't happening in the current environment"

 

[HerbRedman]

Explain this to me like I'm on the TPB and not Reddit.

"Ain't happening in the current environment"

Not to speak for BW but my two cents:



AAU is elitist. The elitist members want to be associated with schools like Yale, Stanford, Northwestern, Rice, etc...

They already don't like that there are your Kansas's and Missouris in there (who are in there bc they were early members like UNL) ....they don't think of Nebraska highly as an academic institution.

New members have to get a 75% vote to be allowed in. What benefit would the members have to allowing in Nebraska? Why should they, in other words? (in their elitist minds, that is)

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Not to speak for BW but my two cents:



AAU is elitist. The elitist members want to be associated with schools like Yale, Stanford, Northwestern, Rice, etc...

They already don't like that there are your Kansas's and Missouris in there (who are in there bc they were early members like UNL) ....they don't think of Nebraska highly as an academic institution.

New members have to get a 75% vote to be allowed in. What benefit would the members have to allowing in Nebraska? Why should they, in other words? (in their elitist minds, that is)

I think it's both the hurdle you mentioned and the vibes around higher education within the state of Nebraska. The bottom line is that you need a fuck ton of money to attract faculty who can then pull in the type of research money that you need to really make some moves and to attract they type of student you need to attract to keep the faculty happy. Nothing about the current environment of higher education funding in Nebraska suggests to me that they're willing to make the financial outlays necessary to really make this play, but I could be wrong

 

[HerbRedman]

I think it's both the hurdle you mentioned and the vibes around higher education within the state of Nebraska. The bottom line is that you need a fuck ton of money to attract faculty who can then pull in the type of research money that you need to really make some moves and to attract they type of student you need to attract to keep the faculty happy. Nothing about the current environment of higher education funding in Nebraska suggests to me that they're willing to make the financial outlays necessary to really make this play, but I could be wrong

Oh I gotcha....yeah the willingness to play ball from within...yep

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Not to speak for BW but my two cents:



AAU is elitist. The elitist members want to be associated with schools like Yale, Stanford, Northwestern, Rice, etc...

They already don't like that there are your Kansas's and Missouris in there (who are in there bc they were early members like UNL) ....they don't think of Nebraska highly as an academic institution.

New members have to get a 75% vote to be allowed in. What benefit would the members have to allowing in Nebraska? Why should they, in other words? (in their elitist minds, that is)

I was aware of the elitist thought process, but wondered if there were other items contributing to current environment.

If the data says otherwise...eventually, that narrative could change. i.e. the combination of campuses pushes our research $$ in the top 50 or better.

I remember reading about 10-15 years ago that if the two campuses combined research dollars NU would be top 25. Not sure if there's truth to that, but I definitely remember the article.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

I think it's both the hurdle you mentioned and the vibes around higher education within the state of Nebraska. The bottom line is that you need a fuck ton of money to attract faculty who can then pull in the type of research money that you need to really make some moves and to attract they type of student you need to attract to keep the faculty happy. Nothing about the current environment of higher education funding in Nebraska suggests to me that they're willing to make the financial outlays necessary to really make this play, but I could be wrong

Now THIS is believable and on display currently.

 

[HerbRedman]

I was aware of the elitist thought process, but wondered if there were other items contributing to current environment.

If the data says otherwise...eventually, that narrative could change. i.e. the combination of campuses pushes our research $$ in the top 50 or better.

I remember reading about 10-15 years ago that if the two campuses combined research dollars NU would be top 25. Not sure if there's truth to that, but I definitely remember the article.

Dean said we're ranked around #60 with everything combined (UNL + UNMC). There are 68 schools in the AAU. So we're still near the bottom even w UNMC's federal research dollars.

I don't think we've released the 2023 federal research dollars yet but I think it's trending around $400m.

For comparison purposes University of Cockeye is around $680m. Places like Pitt are $1.16bn. Minnesota is $1.13bn. Even Utah is $691m. Arizona State got admitted to AAU in 2023 and their research expenditures were $905m that year.

So even w UNMC we would still be in the AAU basement (it's all relative when you have Yale, MIT, Stanford in your club)

To @Baron Winnebago's point....these are federal research dollars that the higher ups at a university have to "play the game" to try to earn. The folks at UNL aren't really in to doing that with the federal government nowadays so these #s will suffer because of it. Something, something, 'woke agenda'...

 

[Mavsker]

Dean said we're ranked around #60 with everything combined (UNL + UNMC). There are 68 schools in the AAU. So we're still near the bottom even w UNMC's federal research dollars.

I don't think we've released the 2023 federal research dollars yet but I think it's trending around $400m.

For comparison purposes University of Cockeye is around $680m. Places like Pitt are $1.16bn. Minnesota is $1.13bn. Even Utah is $691m. Arizona State got admitted to AAU in 2023 and their research expenditures were $905m that year.

So even w UNMC we would still be in the AAU basement (it's all relative when you have Yale, MIT, Stanford in your club)

To @Baron Winnebago's point....these are federal research dollars that the higher ups at a university have to "play the game" to try to earn. The folks at UNL aren't really in to doing that with the federal government nowadays so these #s will suffer because of it. Something, something, 'woke agenda'...

If we're scraping pennies, UNO has $27M and UNK has, uhhh....$4M