LINCOLN- The chair of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents said last week that he was not concerned amid the transition of several high-ranking leaders across the NU System. Regent and Chair Tim Clare stated this after University of Nebraska at Kearney Chancellor Doug Kristensen announced he plans to retire at the end of the academic year after 22 years of service.

Clare said that there is always a "next chapter" for the University System, and that NU will find a successful replacement for Kristensen who will move the university forward. "He has been a public servant and not a backbencher guy," said Clare of Kristensen, "I think we as a state, we as a university, are better, in part, because of Doug."

"I'm not concerned about it whatsoever," finished Clare. Kristensen's departure will mark the third high-ranking administrator to leave the University System in just under a year, joining a national trend of higher education administrator's shrinking tenures. NU's "next chapter," as Clare described it, could bring a different lens to NU as regents eye longevity in finding successors.

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