September 2026

CHS Foundation Support Enhances ACE Tutoring Space at NDSU

North Dakota State University is completing renovations to its Academic Collegiate Enhancement (ACE) tutoring space thanks to support from the CHS Foundation, creating an updated environment for students seeking academic support and tutoring services.

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North Dakota State University is completing renovations to its Academic Collegiate Enhancement (ACE) tutoring space thanks to support from the CHS Foundation, creating an updated environment for students seeking academic support and tutoring services.

Welcome the Stewarts

Join fellow alumni, students, and friends in welcoming NDSU’s new president and first lady. Share your Bison story and message.

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Join fellow alumni, students, and friends in welcoming NDSU’s new president and first lady. Share your Bison story and message.

In Search of a Homeland

A new museum exhibit at NDSU gives one of North Dakota’s most essential and least-known stories the home it deserves.

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A new museum exhibit at NDSU gives one of North Dakota’s most essential and least-known stories the home it deserves.

Rooted in Impact

The NDSU Extension Master Gardener program empowers volunteers to lead community-focused horticultural initiatives across the state.

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The NDSU Extension Master Gardener program empowers volunteers to lead community-focused horticultural initiatives across the state.

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.