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    June 2, 2014
    LLOYD OMDAHL: Governing higher ed: Here we go again
    In the upcoming November general election, North Dakota voters will consider the Legislature’s proposal to abolish the present Board of Higher Education and replace it with a full-time, three-member commission. This won’t be the first time the state has addressed the...
    opinion / op-ed columnsJune 2, 2014 - 4:30am
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    March 3, 2014
    After loss of state money, UND seeks solutions to Chester Fritz budget
    Everything isn’t as bad as it seems at UND’s Chester Fritz Library, according to university officials. The library’s base budget will remain intact for now, contrary to multiple reports, but the library will definitely lose $300,000 in funds they’ve been privy to for the...
    news / localMarch 3, 2014 - 7:30am
    March 1, 2014
    UND: Enbridge's proposed pipeline threatens prairie research
    What looks like a flat piece of land is actually a treasure trove in the eyes of UND’s grassland ecologist Kathryn Yurkonis. “I saw my first snowy owl this past fall out there,” she said. “It’s a really great precious resource that we have.” Yurkonis was referring...
    news / localMarch 1, 2014 - 11:30pm
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    Ukrainian UND professor sees turmoil as echo of past betrayal
    One might not guess by Vasyl Tkach’s quiet demeanor that his home country is in chaotic political turmoil. Even though he’s been an assistant biology professor who specializes in parasitology at UND for the last 11 years, he grew up in the Ukraine and has close ties with the...
    news / localMarch 1, 2014 - 7:45am
    July 2, 2013
    Email auto purge runs afoul of NDSU's record-keeping policy
    FARGO - A new automatic purge function that North Dakota State University officials say may be to blame for more than 45,000 of President Dean Bresciani's emails being deleted violates the school's own policies for how long records should be kept. All emails sent and received by...
    newsJuly 2, 2013 - 10:50pm
    August 27, 2012
    HIGHER EDUCATION NOTES: UND scientists to study link between obesity, Alzheimer's... and more
    UND scientists to study link between obesity, Alzheimer's UND professors Colin Combs and Mikhail Golovko recently won a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship between Alzheimer's and obesity. They will try to determine whether the link...
    education / local / newsAugust 27, 2012 - 6:30am
    June 3, 2011
    'It's still my University': Veteran UND employee shocked at sudden dismissal
    Alice Hoffert, an associate vice president at UND and a longtime member of the university staff, arrived for a scheduled meeting with new Vice President Lori Reesor on May 18 and was handed a letter. A quick scan brought Hoffert to the action line: "Effective immediately, you have...
    newsJune 3, 2011 - 8:34pm
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    December 18, 2010
    DSU staff gives institution lowest mark in eight years
    DICKINSON, N.D. -- Dickinson State University staff rated the institution the lowest it has in the past eight years in a quality survey released to The Dickinson Press on Thursday. But, 70 percent of respondents reported being satisfied or very satisfied. "All of this information...
    newsDecember 18, 2010 - 10:38pm
    MSUM offers early retirement as part of their budget solution
    MOORHEAD -- Minnesota State University Moorhead is offering faculty another round of early retirement incentives in preparation for an estimated $7.5 million cut in state funding. President Edna Szymanski said some faculty will be replaced with new hires, but some positions will...
    newsDecember 18, 2010 - 10:36pm
    December 11, 2010
    Area colleges hope for cash
    Lake Region State College will have some arm twisting to do in the North Dakota Legislature if officials hope to get $4.85 million to expand and remodel the 40-year-old Erlandson Technical Center to accommodate the Devils Lake school's popular nursing and wind energy technician programs. Meanwhile,...
    newsDecember 11, 2010 - 10:55pm
    August 26, 2010
    March of the monarchs
    CROOKSTON -- Laura Bell hopes that monarch butterflies will be all aflutter Saturday. Bell, lab services coordinator and naturalist at the University of Minnesota-Crookston is tagging butterflies Saturday at the Red River Natural History Area near the UMC campus. Bell tagged butterflies...
    newsAugust 26, 2010 - 9:10pm
    May 8, 2010
    Minnesota journalism teacher asks students to unplug
    MINNEAPOLIS -- A professor at the University of Minnesota asked her students to turn off their iPods, cell phones and laptops and turn on the eight-track players, landlines and typewriters. Last month, Heather LaMarre, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication,...
    newsMay 8, 2010 - 11:03pm
    May 1, 2010
    Voices of American Indian UND students
    Will Crawford, 20, an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, came to UND to study atmospheric science. He hopes to work one day for the National Weather Service. "I had a class in high school," he explains, smiling.
    newsMay 1, 2010 - 8:55pm
    Student Senate urges 'due consideration' of any nickname vote
    UND Student Senate has adopted a resolution urging the State Board of Higher Education to give due consideration to any vote on the matter that may take place at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by Nov.
    newsMay 1, 2010 - 7:18pm
    Reception set for book on UND Native art
    The best way to understand an art collection is to examine it within the context of historical trends of collecting, writes Arthur Jones, chairman of the UND Department of Art and Design in "Storytelling Time: Native North American Art from the Collections at the University of North...
    entertainmentMay 1, 2010 - 7:14pm
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