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University Business
NDSU Looks To Fewer Class With No Tuition Increase
North Dakota State University president Dean Bresciani says the school is looking to have fewer classes next fall as one way to handle the loss of $450,000 it had sought from a small tuition increase. The half percent hike was denied by the State Board o...
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NDSU Spectrum
NDSU recoups denied state funding
NDSU is searching for a way to recoup the dollars needed to maintain current university operations after a 0.5 perecent tuition increase was denied for next year. In February, Fox News KVRR reported that NDSU President Dean Bresciani was disappointed wit...
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Jamestown Sun
Higher Ed Board seeks new members
Dr. Wayne G. Sanstead, chairman of the nominating committee for appointment to the State Board of Higher Education, has announced that the committee is seeking applications from persons interested in serving on the State Board of Higher Education. The va...
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BlogHighEd
The Higher Ed CIO - What is Transformational Leadership
Have you noticed creeping into our language lately? Is ‘transformational’ the term du jour of the leadership lexicon or is there something more to it? It seems given its increasing use that we should have a fairly clear idea as to what is transformationa...
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University Business
Dickinson State Ending System Of Tuition Discounts For Some Foreign, Out-Of-State Students
Dickinson State University is ending tuition discounts for some out-of-state and foreign students. North Dakota's Board of Higher Education approved the plan Friday. It starts this fall. Current Dickinson State students will be exempted from the change f...
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University Business
U Of North Dakota Considers Taking Cars Off University Avenue To Create Pedestrian Mall On Campus
The stretch of University Avenue running through the UND campus could be closed to cars under an idea being studied by the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Metropolitan Planning Organization. The MPO is looking at the feasibility of turning University Avenue...
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Freshnews.com
Blackboard Launches Augmented Reality for Mobile Campus Apps
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to bring the latest in mobile technology to the student experience, Blackboard Inc. announced today the addition of augmented reality (AR) to its leading Blackboard Mobile(TM) Central platform, curren...
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Jamestown Sun
Morton named to higher ed board
BISMARCK (AP) — A Microsoft executive and former North Dakota State University football coach has been named to North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education. Don Morton will join the board July 1. He’ll replace Michael Haugen of Fargo. Haugen is stepping dow...
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Say Anything
Fargo Forum: The State Board Of Higher Ed Would Be Just Fine It If Weren’t For That Meddlesome Legislature
A series of early departures from the State Board of Higher Education is waking a lot of North Dakotans up to the very real problems in the state’s out-of-control university system, and it’s about time. The university system has major problems. Just week...
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FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
AP: Sexual Assault Claims on Campus a ‘Legal Minefield’
This weekend, Justin Pope of the Associated Press came out with a pair of thorough and insightful articles about the "legal minefield" in which universities currently find themselves when it comes to addressing claims of sexual assault on campus. As Pope...
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Say Anything
Board Of Higher Ed Members Make The Case For Ending The Board Of Higher Ed
There are a number of critics of higher education here in North Dakota (myself included) who feel that the State Board of Higher Education is no longer capable of governing the states $1.2 billion university system. There are a growing number of people w...
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The Tennessean
Debate on rape, civil rights goes onto campus
For much of its 40-year history, the federal education gender-equity law known as Title IX has made headlines mostly on the sports pages. But over the past decade or so, Title IX has shifted onto a different patch of contentious terrain: sexual assault o...
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Bangor Daily News
On college campuses, Title IX transforms response to rape — but not without critics
Kristina Ponischil sits on the steps on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, where she works as a researcher. Caleb Warner, a former University of North Dakota student, had his college career was cut short after being falsely accused of...
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Jamestown Sun
Higher ed board member resigns
BISMARCK — A member of North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education said Tuesday he had resigned because he had become weary of what he called a stressful, full-time job. “It got totally time-consuming,” Claus Lembke said. “My life became higher ed. Personal...
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University Business
N.D. Board Mulling Dickinson State Tuition
The president of Dickinson State University is pushing the Board of Higher Education to decide on out-of-state tuition rates for his school. A recent audit says Dickinson State has inconsistent tuition policies for out-of-state and international students...
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