Staff Members

Sara Wald

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2015

Sara, who has worked for NDSU since 2002, currently serves as a senior director of trustee relations and interim vice president of alumni & donor connections. She ensures the needs of NDSU’s friends and supporters are being met and addressed.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2015

Sara, who has worked for NDSU since 2002, currently serves as a senior director of trustee relations and interim vice president of alumni & donor connections. She ensures the needs of NDSU’s friends and supporters are being met and addressed.

Kari Sayler

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2016

As senior executive manager, Kari provides day-to-day leadership, system, and administrative support to the President/CEO of the Foundation. She also helps foster an open, transparent environment of governance and fiduciary responsibility by providing administrative support to the Foundation’s Executive Governing Board, Nominating and Governance Committee, State and Local Relations Committee, and Compensation Committee.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2016

As senior executive manager, Kari provides day-to-day leadership, system, and administrative support to the President/CEO of the Foundation. She also helps foster an open, transparent environment of governance and fiduciary responsibility by providing administrative support to the Foundation’s Executive Governing Board, Nominating and Governance Committee, State and Local Relations Committee, and Compensation Committee.

Monique Anderson

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2016

As senior vice president of principal gifts, Monique provides strategy and oversight of principal gifts, presidential engagement, and campaign planning. Principal gifts partners with campus leaders, Foundation team members, and philanthropists who want to make a transformative investment in the mission and vision of North Dakota State University.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2016

As senior vice president of principal gifts, Monique provides strategy and oversight of principal gifts, presidential engagement, and campaign planning. Principal gifts partners with campus leaders, Foundation team members, and philanthropists who want to make a transformative investment in the mission and vision of North Dakota State University.

John Glover

NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2015, 1998-2002

As the NDSU Foundation president/CEO, John provides vision, leadership, strategy, and program direction of the Foundation’s goals and mission in support of NDSU.

John is a native of Rapid City, South Dakota, and has more than 23 years of higher education philanthropy experience. Before coming to NDSU, John served in numerous roles of progressive responsibility with the Iowa State University Foundation in Ames, Iowa, for 13 years.

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NDSU Foundation Team Member since 2015, 1998-2002

As the NDSU Foundation president/CEO, John provides vision, leadership, strategy, and program direction of the Foundation’s goals and mission in support of NDSU.

John is a native of Rapid City, South Dakota, and has more than 23 years of higher education philanthropy experience. Before coming to NDSU, John served in numerous roles of progressive responsibility with the Iowa State University Foundation in Ames, Iowa, for 13 years.

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.