The State Board of Higher Education kicked off the new decade with some business as usual, including recommendations from Board committees and regular updates to policies. Board member Kathleen Neset brought forward the Audit Committee recommendations, including a report from the N.D. State Auditor’s office that...
BISMARCK, N.D. – The ND Career Builders Scholarship and Loan Repayment program, instituted by the 2019 North Dakota Legislative Assembly, has been actively awarding scholarships and loan repayment since August 2019. Since its inception, the North Dakota University System has visited with hundreds of representatives...
Event will be March 6 in Fargo In conjunction with Open Education Week, the North Dakota University System will hold an Open Education Resources (OER) Conference, Friday, March 6 at the Holiday Inn in Fargo. The full-day program will include an overview of the OER landscape at...
A recent joint exercise among the North Dakota University System, its 11 public colleges and universities and the North Dakota Department of Health, took a look at how public agencies would respond in the event of measles cases at the campuses. The highly-infectious disease has seen...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The State Board of Higher Education has selected Dr. Andrew Armacost as the 13th president of the University of North Dakota. He will begin his position as soon as possible after contract negotiations are complete. The Board interviewed three finalists at their...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Three finalists have been chosen to interview with the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education for president of the University of North Dakota. The Presidential Search Committee, at their meeting Friday, Nov. 22, has named the following finalists: Dr. Andrew P....
North Dakota University System is sponsoring an Open Educational Resources Conference next spring at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Preliminary Program topics will include: National Landscape of OER in Higher Education Landscape of OER in North Dakota – a panel presentation on campus OER adoption experiences Open...
BISMARCK, N.D. – During a special State Board of Higher Education meeting held via teleconference today, Stephen D. Easton, J.D., was named interim president of Dickinson State University. Easton has a strong personal connection to Dickinson State University. Easton, who graduated summa cum laude from DSU...
“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.” Those words were once spoken by President Theodore Roosevelt, a man who himself was as adaptive as he was iconic. Change remains as...
A large topic of consideration at this week’s State Board of Higher Education meeting revolved around newly-proposed details to incoming presidential contracts. Board member Dan Traynor brought forward the proposed revision to the presidential contract requirement, which would create the possibility of extending the contract from...
