Staff Members

Janna Swanson

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2018

As an executive assistant, Janna performs a range of administrative, clerical, and technical duties along with project and meeting management for the vice president of finance and operations and the vice president of information services at the Foundation. Janna helps plan and organize the day-to-day operations of their offices, which requires management of multiple, rapidly changing priorities.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2018

As an executive assistant, Janna performs a range of administrative, clerical, and technical duties along with project and meeting management for the vice president of finance and operations and the vice president of information services at the Foundation. Janna helps plan and organize the day-to-day operations of their offices, which requires management of multiple, rapidly changing priorities.

Alex Brock

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2023

As a prospect research manager, Alex conducts in-depth, comprehensive prospect research in support of development efforts to achieve fundraising priorities.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2023

As a prospect research manager, Alex conducts in-depth, comprehensive prospect research in support of development efforts to achieve fundraising priorities.

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.