14 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN August 2024 MEMBERSHIP AT THE GRASS ROOTS BEGINS WITH YOU! 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To check your membership status, call (402) 475-2333 “Paul thought it was time for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to refocus and build another generation of entrepreneurs,” Field says. “He wanted the college to produce entrepreneurs who would create employment opportunities for other people. He recognized that the education system had started producing employees for large organizations but thought it should produce more risk takers.” Engler invested in his home state by establishing the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program at UNL through a $20 million gift from the Paul and Virginia Engler Foundation. “There was a genuine transformation in Paul’s life that occurred after the gift to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,” says Chuck Schroeder, former director of the UNL Rural Futures Institute. “There was a new sparkle in his eye and joy in his heart that I’d never seen before. It lifted him to a new height of excitement about the future.” Schroeder served as Nebraska’s director of agriculture, where he met Engler. Over the years, Schroeder and Engler crossed paths while working in the agricultural industry. They intersected during their time at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and again at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Schroeder also mentors students in the Engler Program. Students who graduate from the Engler Program are prepared to be purpose-driven entrepreneurs who focus on building their community and rolling up their sleeves to develop their solutions. Cassie Lapaseotes serves on the advisory committee for the Engler Program. “Paul was a life-long learner and was still building businesses later in life,” Lapaseotes says. “He had a fire in his belly that was contagious to everyone around him, including the students in his program. He wanted to empower students to help them get where they dreamed of being.” The unique program propels students by providing experiential, community-based learning to help them build their enterprises from the ground up. “It’s not a program where you just get a certificate and walk away,” Lapaseotes says. “If you have the entrepreneurial spirit, the Engler Program is a lifelong experience.” Some students walk in without an idea of what they want to do or where they want to go, but the skillset they develop through the Engler Program sets them up for success after graduation. “Some kids don’t even know they have the entrepreneurial spirit, but it clicks for them when they are given these opportunities,” Lapaseotes says. “The program doesn’t teach them that they will be successful with every business idea, but it does teach them how to overcome their failures. That’s very important for business owners to understand.” She says the program goes beyond the enrolled students. “It also allows Nebraska to grow through the potential in the graduates who stay in Nebraska,” Lapaseotes says. “It’s great LEAVING A LEGACY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12
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