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ND higher education board revises tuition plan

The state Board of Higher Education has revised a tuition rate plan that had been in place only a few weeks.

By Associated Press , May 23, 2013

Dickinson teachers, school board at impasse

For the first time since the 1970s, the Dickinson Public School Board and the Dickinson Education Association have come to an impasse in contract negotiations.

By Forum News Service , May 22, 2013

N.D. AG looking into possible second open meeting violation by higher ed board

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is investigating a possible second violation of open meeting laws by the State Board of Higher Education after hearing accounts of a March 6 dinner meeting that contradict what he was told by a North Dakota University System official.

By Ryan Johnson, Forum News Service , April 23, 2013

Senate pushes ahead to dismantle State Board of Higher Education

After a third attempt, Senate lawmakers successfully passed a resolution proposing a constitutional change to remove the State Board of Higher Education and replace it with a full-time three-member committee.

By TJ Jerke, Forum News Service , April 22, 2013

AG says higher ed board violated open meeting law

North Dakota’s State Board of Higher Education violated open meeting laws during a dinner meeting earlier this year, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Thursday.

By Ryan Johnson, Forum News Service , April 18, 2013

Pharmacy board seeks applicants

The 2009 Legislature authorized the addition of a consumer member to the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy. This position, created in 2009, has never been filled.

October 04, 2011

Legislative restraint is important in fiscal mess

With fiscal affairs amuck, North Dakota higher education is experiencing its third major scandal since statehood. A recent audit indicated that big dollars may have been spent without authority at the state’s two largest universities. In 1937, Governor William Langer, acting through his Board of Administration, arbitrarily fired the president and four deans at NDSU. The action so enraged the alumni that they initiated a constitutional amendment to create an independent board of higher education to “control and administer” the state’s institutions. It was adopted in the June 1938 primary.

By Lloyd Omdahl, columnist , May 24, 2010

N.D. audit: Board looks to expand audit of office overseeing investments, pensions

A committee of North Dakota’s State Investment Board decided Thursday to revise the scope of the audit ordered after the state investment director’s suicide last month. The revised specifications now call for a performance audit based on standards recommended by state auditors, said Rebecca Dorwart, chairwoman of the board’s audit committee.

By By Patrick Springer, Forum Communications Co. , May 21, 2010

Letter to the editor: School Board’s policy on allowing use of facility right

It seems to me that the complaints by a few citizens against the Jamestown Public School District for allowing an educational Worldview Weekend Seminar to be held in a school facility are immature and unjustified. People with a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and a loving desire to serve our creator would not object to a Christian religious meeting held in any public facility. But, if I understand everything correctly, no student could attend without a permission note from the parents, so I think the school policy is fair and just to protect non-Christian parents from exposing their son or daughter to a philosophy that they think is not good for them to hear.

By Bob Tatum , May 07, 2010

Jensen appointed to board of directors

James Jensen, Valley City, N.D., was among those recently appointed to the board of directors for Hospice of the Red River Valley for 2010-2011.

April 20, 2010

School Board discusses rental of buildings

The Jamestown Public School Board will consider a change in its rental of buildings policy after a religiously affiliated conference recently rented the Jamestown High School theater during school hours. Some parents disagreed such a program should be allowed at the school at all or at least while classes were in session. One addressed the board at its regular meeting Monday.

April 20, 2010

West Fargo School Board handed Muzzle Award

The West Fargo School Board has been named a Muzzle Award recipient by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The award, which is handed out for what the Jefferson Center sees as “egregious or ridiculous affronts to the First Amendment right of free speech,” went to the West Fargo School Board for its handling of a matter involving high school English teacher Jeremy Murphy, who last year lost his role as advisor to the high school newspaper.

By Forum Communications Co. report , April 14, 2010

Weed Board to meet Wednesday

The Stutsman County Weed Board will meet at 7 a.m. Wednesday in the Stutsman County Courthouse’s Whitney Room, 511 Second Ave. S.E.

April 12, 2010

School Board agrees to sell bonds from two district projects

The Jamestown Public School Board approved a financing option intended to save taxpayers about $2.8 million at its regular meeting Monday. The board approved selling bonds from the Jamestown High School and Middle School projects. The plan knocks off four years of payments, said Myron Knutson, who advises schools on bond issues and indebtedness. The district will pay off the bonds by 2017 rather than 2021, saving a $100,000 homeowner about $96 a year for each of the four years.

March 16, 2010

N.D. higher ed board plans incentive program

Future budget proposals for North Dakota’s university system will include financial incentives for colleges that meet new achievement benchmarks being drawn up by the Board of Higher Education, two members said Tuesday. Richie Smith, the board’s president, and Jon Backes, its vice president, told the Legislature’s interim higher education committee that the program’s standards will be developed during the next two years for the system’s 11 public colleges.

By By Dale Wetzel, The Associated Press , March 03, 2010