NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSI TY | Letter from the President Letter from the President N ORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY is increasingly recognized for providing high-quality, affordable, and personalized educational experiences and support through both traditional and Hy-Flex delivery options. Our amazing students continue to impress. Since 2013, 55 of 58 (95 percent) Northern Honors students’ abstracts submitted to the National Collegiate Honors Conference have been accepted. That includes multiple first and second place finishes. In addition to mentoring students’ research and creative activity, faculty recently won a South Dakota EPSCoR grant to fund an expansion of the Nora Staael Evert Human Performance Lab. Faculty also partnered with the Aberdeen Development Corporation and the Center on Rural Innovation to receive $1.5 million in federal grants, matching dollars and additional grants to support local entrepreneurship and innovation. You can learn more about these achievements in this issue. Our students, faculty, campus and community are reaping the benefits of ever stronger collaborations between Northern and the Northern State University Foundation. Foundation and donor support has enabled us to roll out an aggressive new WolfPACT unleashed scholarship model, and has funded leading edge facilities. The success of GiveNDay (April 6-7, 2022) has also provided an unprecedented scope of programmatic support. Currently, campus is completing its first comprehensive strategic enrollment management plan. Northern’s No. 1 priority is to build a growth strategy that expands student access, success and educational attainment to increase students’ socioeconomic mobility while serving the public good. Once created and approved, the plan will guide decision-making and establish priorities for all of campus. Bottom line, we want more students to receive a Northern education and experience life in Aberdeen, S.D., and to remain in the region and state to enhance workforce and economic development. Your continued patronage is vital to transforming students’ lives and growth across our region. On behalf of all at Northern, thank you for your support. We wish you a happy holiday season, and Go Wolves! Dr. Neal Schnoor NSU President NORTHERN TODAY 3 FALL 2022
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