UNL increasing investment in ag with 36 new faculty positions

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LINCOLN – The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is strategically increasing its investment in agriculture and natural resources, looking to hire three dozen new faculty after a decade of budget cuts and stagnant hiring.

Ronnie Green, vice chancellor of the university’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), where the faculty will be housed, said the new hires will come in subject areas filling workforce gaps critical to the global challenges of the future, including expanded and more efficient food production and improved water and natural resources management.



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