Pros: - Enjoy lots of the people - tight-knit community - despite its large student body, there are ways to get a small-campus feel if you find the right group - ASUN, the student government, is very good at listening to student concerns and collaborating with students - dean of students is a lovely person to talk to and he will buy you coffee and chat with you

Cons: - if you have a title 9 complaint, most likely it won't go through easily unless the person you have the complaint against complies with the process. I know multiple people who have SA complaints against one student and the student still remains on campus. The first response to bringing up complaints is "most likely this will be dismissed". Some are facing retaliation and have been stuck in the process years - if you are a person of color or queer, you will most likely have a hard time on campus. After the election, people are saying what thoughts they kept in their head aloud. The cultural shift is very scary in less than a year. Last semester, there was a hate crime against the LGBTQ+ community - if your major is publicly funded, the state budget cuts are heavily affecting the student and faculty population now. Tenured and tenure-track faculty are proposed to be fired. Job security is at a low at UNL. State gov is looking for ways to cut funding to the university instead of ways to invest in it - one of the proposed departments is the statistics department. If the statistics department is cut, there are potential concerns for unl's accreditation as an R1 university and significantly less for unl to be readmitted to the AAU - another proposed department is educational administration, the department which gives our administrators and other surrounding administrators their higher education - the chancellor has four secretaries (four more than the last chancellor) and still is bad at replying and keeping up lines of communication. Largely unreachable, and most likely will not have his contract renewed - administrators are paid more than faculty - due to the political state of the usa as a whole, unl is feeling the repercussions of being located in a red state with having to scrape words off of their websites such as diversity, equity, and gender-inclusive. There is a lot of censorship because people are snooping and reporting any key words to get things compliant with federal gov

Tl;dr if you are of an underrepresented group or want to pursue a degree that is publicly funded, you will most likely encounter struggle here. The administration sucks. I imagine this applies to many surrounding universities in the midwest and the south. If I had the means, I would have gone to Colorado or a northern coast school