[19] He began an aggressive remodeling and expansion of many university buildings, often overseeing construction himself. [3] Fifty-one percent of the undergraduate population was male and forty-nine percent was female.[3]. Nebraska plays its home games at Memorial Stadium, where it has sold out every game since 1962.
[d][48] Shortly after joining the Big Ten, Nebraska constructed or significantly renovated most of its major athletic facilities. The following year, the United States plunged into the Great Depression and the Great Plains were struck by the Dust Bowl; an agriculture-dependent state, Nebraska was hit hard in the early 1930s as crop prices fell to all-time lows.
[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.
It offers one of eighteen PGA Golf Management degree programs in the United States. The Sheldon Museum of Art is home to more than twelve thousand works of American visual art in all media. Farm Campus was renamed East Campus in 1964 to reflect its development past a purely agricultural development. The school's development was slowed by a mid-1870s grasshopper swarm that devastated the state's economy and caused NU's first chancellor, Allen R. Benton, to resign.
The university erected a statue of Osborne and Berringer at Memorial Stadium. The nearby Great Plains Art Museum is home to the Christlieb Collection and features American western art and Americana. The Industrial College was founded in 1877 and renamed the College of Engineering when the agriculture department was separated two decades later. Administration responded to protests by meeting and negotiating with student leaders, and as a result, no Vietnam War protests at the University of NebraskaLincoln became violent or required a National Guard intervention.
"[12] The school received an initial federal land grant of about 130,000 acres (53,000ha) through the Morrill Act of 1862. 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. It was home to more than just agricultural programs, including the College of Law, College of Dentistry, and Center for Hearing and Speech Disorders. [38] Gustavson was crucial to a number of post-war developments, including the integration of campus dormitories and the planning of the school's medical center (now the University of Nebraska Medical Center). Around this time, University of Chicago dean of agriculture Clifford M. Hardin was selected as Nebraska's twelfth chancellor; at thirty-eight, Hardin was the youngest university president in the country. Because of these fossils and a bronze Columbian mammoth statue in front of the building named Archie, it is popularly known as "Elephant Hall." NU's football team has won forty-six conference championships and claims five national championships, with an additional nine unclaimed. [19] By the time Canfield resigned in July 1895 to return to his native Ohio, enrollment had nearly quadrupled. 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 school operates a Class A FM radio station, KRNU, which broadcasts on 90.3 FM over approximately twenty miles. [13], Campus construction began in September 1869 when the cornerstone of University Hall was laid at the corner of 11th and S Streets. [89][90][91] The name was first applied to Nebraska was in 1899 by Nebraska State Journal writer Cy Sherman.
[7] NU offers additional programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including 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.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers (often abbreviated to Huskers) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of NebraskaLincoln.
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 lack of funding, reduction in salaries, and cancellation of many university events caused a sense of general tension between administration, faculty, and students throughout most of the decade. Twenty-five former Cornhuskers have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. 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. 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.
A school newspaper, Monthly Hesperian Student (later The Hesperian, now The Daily Nebraskan), was quickly established and the University of Nebraska State Museum (now Morrill Hall) opened in University Hall. 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]. [22][50][51] Nebraska ranked near the bottom of many AAU criteria due largely to the university's extensive USDA-funded agricultural research, which was not considered by the AAU because it was not awarded by peer-reviewed grants; and because Nebraska's medical center was a separate institution whose research funding was not under the auspices of the Lincoln campus.
[99] Despite a span of twenty-one conference championships in thirty-three seasons, the Cornhuskers didn't experience major national success until Bob Devaney was hired in 1962.
For the state-wide university system, see.
Sixty-nine percent of NU's students are from Nebraska; the remaining thirty-one percent is made up of students from all forty-nine other states and 114 countries. Roscoe Pound, one of the foremost proponents of legal realism in the United States and later the dean of Harvard Law School, led the department from 1903 to 1907. In this instance, Cornhuskers was used to refer to Iowa.
"[55] Nebraska is one of four states with public university governing boards elected directly by the people. The University of Nebraska Medical Center, located in Omaha, was separated from the Lincoln school and brought under the direction of the new state-wide system.
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.
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. Clifford M. Hardin was the first president and Ronald Roskens was the longest-tenured. It is one of thirty-six United States business schools affiliated with the CFA Institute. Daugherty declined, but suggested Hardin contact Wyoming head coach Bob Devaney. [36], Many new classes and programs were offered throughout the 1940s, most of them in the medical and engineering fields. To reflect this, it was renamed East Campus, given its location a mile east of the downtown campus. College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Hardin was named the first chancellor of the University of Nebraska system in 1968[c] and served for two years before being named United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Richard Nixon.
[22] The eight-million dollar Lied Center for Performing Arts finished construction in 1990. The Board of Regents selected West Virginia University president Chauncey Samuel Boucher to replace Burnett. ASUN governs over four hundred student organizations on campus. The school's first student union, called simply the Student Union (now the Nebraska Union), was constructed in 1938 on the corner of 14th and R Streets. When the United States joined World War I in April 1917, students from Nebraska's extensive Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program were called into service. The college completed the Mechanical Arts Building (later Stout Hall) in 1898, which served as its primary home for nearly eighty years. [34] Nebraska soon joined the Army Specialized Training Program and the campus became disorganized and chaotic as soldiers "studied very casually while in residence" before being deployed overseas.
Nebraska's athletic programs, known as the Cornhuskers, compete in NCAA Division I and are a member of the Big Ten Conference. 
[3] The high school grade point average of enrolled freshmen was 3.63. There are seven traditional residence halls on City Campus: Abel, Harper, Kauffman Academic Residential Center, Sandoz, Schramm, Selleck Quadrangle, and Smith. [80] Among 17,775 first-year applicants for the 202122 academic year, fifty-five percent were female and forty-five percent were male. 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. [3] Undergraduate admission to the school is considered "more selective."[11].
[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. 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. 
In 1909 it was separated from the Industrial College as the College of Agriculture. [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.
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). 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.
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. [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.
[34] At the outset of World War II in Europe, Boucher urged neutrality among students and faculty; even after the United States entered the war, he encouraged the university to "carry on" as normal. Eighty-eight percent (15,701) were admitted and twenty-seven percent (4,736) enrolled. [88] The Lentz Center for Asian Culture is no longer open to the public, though its collection of Asian ceramics, paintings, prints, sculpture, and textiles has been digitized for online viewing. The university established NETV (later Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, now Nebraska Public Media) in 1954 on what was then Farm Campus. ", "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? [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).
East Campus is home to the Massengale Residential Center, which contains both traditional and apartment-style housing, and Love Memorial Hall, an all-female cooperative facility.
Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the University of Nebraska until 1968, when it absorbed the Municipal University of Omaha to form the University of Nebraska system. Nebraska's school of commerce was founded in 1913 and became the College of Business Administration in 1919. Berringer, a Nebraska native, endeared himself to fans when filling in for injured starter Tommie Frazier in 1994.
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. University television network NETV (later Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, now Nebraska Public Media) was created in 1954, broadcasting over ninety hours of programming weekly. [71], Admission to the University of NebraskaLincoln is rated "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report.
[21] Shortly after his departure, NU became the first school west of the Mississippi River to offer graduate courses and established its College of Law and School of Agriculture.[a]. [96] The team is coached by Scott Frost. Though many Greek houses opened in the 1920s, the first university-operated dormitory was not completed until the female-only Raymond Hall (now Neihardt Residential Hall, though it is not in use) was dedicated in 1932. Just a few years later it opened Abel and Sandoz Halls, still the largest residency complex on campus. Initially, only one of the building's four stories housed library collections, but less than twenty years after its opening the entire facility was needed. Spanier was sentenced to two months in prison for his role in the scandal. The chancellor of the University of NebraskaLincoln is appointed by the Board of Regents and reports to the president of the University of Nebraska system. A president and two vice-presidents are elected each academic year by a popular vote of the general student body; the president serves on the Board of Regents as a non-voting member. The Nebraska student government was established in 1919 as the Student Council, and a constitution was adopted four years later. Bill, which offered them free tuition and housing assistance. 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.
The university completed several large-scale construction projects throughout the late 1980s. The university dedicated University Library (now Architecture Hall) on December 10, 1895.
By the 2000s, Cather and Pound Halls were out-of-date and the university began plans to renovate or remove the buildings. 
It is the state's oldest university and the flagship institution of the state-wide system. Since 1928, City Campus has been the headquarters of the National Society of Pershing Rifles, a military fraternal organization for college-level students. 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." [35] However, plummeting enrollment and intense national fervor meant the school could not stay "neutral" for long, and began offering vacant university buildings to the United States Army for training and shelter. [59] With over four thousand undergraduate students, it is NU's second-largest college. Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.
[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. In eleven seasons as head coach, Devaney won two national championships, eight conference titles, and coached twenty-two All-Americans, but perhaps his most lasting achievement was the hiring of Tom Osborne as offensive coordinator in 1969.