January 26, 2021 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm UTC-6
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For generations, women of NDSU have led the way in their industries as creators, educators, and trailblazers by taking risks and impacting their communities. Many of these women are now paying it forward to enhance the lives of NDSU students today.
Hear stories from two of them during NDSU’s Women in Philanthropy virtual event: Virginia Clark Johnson, NDSU Trustee and former Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Education at NDSU, and Brandi Niemeier ’11, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Get expert financial and wealth management advice from Stacey Ackerman ’94, NDSU Trustee and managing director at Abbot Downing.
Becky Ruthenbeck, director of gift planning at the NDSU Foundation, leads the discussion about the positive changes women are making at NDSU through philanthropy.
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.