The University of Nebraska's flagship campus hopes to require all of its graduates to have some kind of documented internship, research project or study abroad experience by the year 2025.University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green unveiled the change as part of the N 2025 plan in his State of the University address Friday morning."Our students will boldly and nimbly be able to step into the future into successful careers. Our research will have even a greater impact and stature both nationally and internationally," Green said. The plan also calls for increasing student enrollment by 15% to 29,000 in the next five years, improving the four-year graduation rate to 55% and the six-year graduation rate to 72% and making sure at least 88% of first-year students return to campus."We do think it will set us apart as an institution, not only in the Big Ten but nationally," Green said.Green said the experience requirement will enhance the University's ability in workforce development to help ease skilled worker shortage crisis in Nebraska."This plan gets it right. It hits the right notes. It focuses on the right aims. It will stretch us in meaningful and significant ways," Green said. Students said getting experience in your field is crucial to landing a job after you graduate."I'm a business student. So it's kind of an expectation for us to have at least one or two internships by the time we graduate," senior Maddy Sirois said. But she and others are concerned many internship and research projects are very competitive and are unpaid."College is already expensive. I think everybody knows that. And it if you do study abroad, you're going to be living in a whole different place. You might not be working. So definitely the financial piece will probably be more challenging, but that doesn't mean it's not achievable or can't be done," said Elijah Merritt, a freshman business major. Green said he realizes there are many challenges."We are going to need to develop a way to ensure students can work that into their time period with us," Green said. And he said more partnerships with businesses will be needed. "That's going to require us to amp up or ramp up our ability to connect those students to those opportunities," Green said.