First full day on job for David Cook, North Dakota State University’s new president

FARGO (KFGO) – North Dakota State College’s fifteenth president, David Prepare dinner spent his first day on his new job Tuesday. He mentioned he’s “tremendous excited” to be on campus and spent a lot of the day in conferences along with his cupboard, system workplace personnel, board committees, and NDSU College Senate management.

“In all probability right here from day one all through the summer time it’s going to be a whole lot of listening getting on the market and listening to what folks should say with area days. I’m going to criss-cross throughout the state for 2 weeks with area days, listening to what all people throughout the state is searching for within the new president,” Prepare dinner mentioned.

Prepare dinner realizes the significance of the impression the college has on the group. He needs to handle sloping scholar retention charges and proceed to strengthen relationships with native companies with scholar internships that can hopefully result in jobs, and preserve them within the state of North Dakota.

Prepare dinner comes from the College of Kansas the place he was Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Financial Improvement. He was named to the submit by the State Board of Increased Schooling in February, certainly one of three finalists.

Prepare dinner replaces Dean Bresciani, who stepped down after 12 years on the helm of NDSU to develop into a tenured professor in well being sciences and schooling.