October 10, 2019 at 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CDT
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For nearly 130 years, North Dakota State University has served the people of North Dakota and the region as a land-grant university. Throughout the years, it adapted to meet the needs of students and prepared them to face the challenges of our ever-changing region and beyond.
On Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, NDSU entered a new chapter full of possibilities for this place and the people here. NDSU President Dean L. Bresciani unveiled a vision for the future at the public launch of In Our Hands: The Campaign for North Dakota State University, the largest comprehensive campaign in the school’s history.
At this special event filled with lights, music, and fanfare, we celebrated NDSU’s past, heard stories from students, faculty, university leaders, alumni, and benefactors who know the value of an NDSU education.
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.