December 2021

NDSU’s Bison Strides receives $100,000 Giving Hearts Day match

North Dakota State University’s Bison Strides is pleased to announce a gift of $100,000 as a Giving Hearts Day match from the John Ballantyne Donor Advised Fund, a component fund of the Fargo Moorhead Area Foundation.

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North Dakota State University’s Bison Strides is pleased to announce a gift of $100,000 as a Giving Hearts Day match from the John Ballantyne Donor Advised Fund, a component fund of the Fargo Moorhead Area Foundation.

Faculty member appointed President Jim Ozbun Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship

Onnolee Nordstrom, assistant professor of management in NDSU’s College of Business, has been selected as the inaugural holder of the President Jim Ozbun Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship.

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Onnolee Nordstrom, assistant professor of management in NDSU’s College of Business, has been selected as the inaugural holder of the President Jim Ozbun Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship.

Margaret and her husband, Hugh Veit ’79, established the Eleanor S. Fitzgerald Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship to support NDSU students earning advanced degrees in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences or the Department of Human Development and Family Science.

Core areas of home economics remain part of current NDSU degree programs such as accounting; apparel, retail merchandising, and design; education; family and consumer science; financial planning; human development and family science; interior design; and nutrition science.

Home economics programs opened doors, particularly for women, to earn college degrees and pursue careers in education, Extension, state and federal government, business and industry, health care, and more. NDAC listed domestic economy as one of its courses in its founding year, 1890.

Established by Dr. Teresa Conner, dean of the NDSU College of Health and Human Sciences, and co-chaired by Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald ’83 and Col. Esther Meyers ’75, the Wisdom Keepers provide support and share their knowledge and expertise with students, faculty, staff, and leadership in the College.

The home management house at NDAC was the first facility built on a college campus specifically for home management practice. In 1954, it was named in honor of Alba Bales, the first female academic dean at NDAC.