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Oct 02, 2014
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In his his 15th State of the University address on Thursday, Chancellor Harvey Perlman delivered touted UNL’s progress and growth and pointed to the College of Engineering as one of UNL's academic priorities for the future.
Perlman, speaking at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, announced a new initiative to increase by 50 the number of tenure-track faculty in key parts of the university, with 17 of those faculty being hired in the College of Engineering.
He also said UNL and the College of Engineering must continue to identify and exploit the unique opportunities they have in Omaha because of the College's relationships with the Peter Kiewit Institute and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Perlman, speaking at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, announced a new initiative to increase by 50 the number of tenure-track faculty in key parts of the university, with 17 of those faculty being hired in the College of Engineering.
He also said UNL and the College of Engineering must continue to identify and exploit the unique opportunities they have in Omaha because of the College's relationships with the Peter Kiewit Institute and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“To build our research agenda, supply the human talent needed to make Nebraska competitive state-wide and compete with our Big Ten colleagues, Nebraska’s flagship campus must have a first tier College of Engineering,” he said. “... This has to be a top priority for the entire campus.”
The prepared text of Chancellor Perlman's State of the University address, as well as his 14 previous State of the University addresses, are available at http://go.unl.edu/stateoftheu.
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