Ronald William Roskens ( born December 11 , 1932 ) is an American academic . He was the president of the University of Nebraska System from 1977 to 1989 . Roskens was a member and past National President of Sigma Tau Gamma . He served as Administrator of USAID from 1990-1992 . Ronald W. and Lois G. Roskens Hall , finished in Fall 2011 , located on the campus of University of Nebraska Omaha , is named after the Roskens . Roskens was born to father William Roskens and mother Delores Roskens on a farm near Spencer , Iowa in 1932 . In 1950 , he graduated from Spencer High School . He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1953 , where he received a B.A . He taught for one year at the high school in Milburn , Iowa before going to University of Iowa to receive his M.A. in 1955 . From 1956 to 1959 , Roskens was the Assistant Dean of Men at University of Iowa . In 1959 , he received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and moved to Kent , Ohio where he became the Dean of Men at Kent State University in 1959 . Roskens worked there for the next thirteen years . He was Professor of Educational Administration and Executive Vice President for Administration at the time of the 1970 Kent State shootings
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