2025 Edition I

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Stories

The Great Equalizer

Through NDSU’s Bison Strides program, participants and their families are experiencing the benefits of equine-assisted services.

Welcome Letter

Kaylee Weigel '23, '24 shares how the leadership of NDSU President Dave Cook and Dr. Kate Cook inspires her.

In Good Hands

NDSU President Dave Cook’s thoughtful leadership is strengthening both NDSU and North Dakota.

Where Prairie Meets Possibility

An expansive effort is underway at NDSU: educating students equipped to meet the state’s workforce needs.

Prescribing Hope

At NDSU, Alyssa Hodges ’21, ’23, ’26 discovered a community ready to support her in ways she hadn’t expected.

The Seven-Minute Struggle

Strategy, willpower, and mental resilience are skills Bison wrestlers are practicing on the mat and off.

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 cochaired 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.