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Vanhorn described Mayville State as an institution focused on workforce development and small‑campus, high‑service education. He told the committee the university has improved enrollment in recent years — reporting an 8.2% overall headcount increase from fall 2023 to fall 2024 and an all‑time record FTE this spring — and said the institution had raised private funds and used prior appropriations to start the Old Main renovation.

Vice President Amber Hill provided project status and financial details for Old Main: the institution has completed substantial design and abatement work and received favorable construction bids. She said the construction manager at risk has presented a guaranteed maximum price that is within budget and that demolition and foundation work will accelerate as weather and ground conditions permit. Hill said a legislative inflationary adjustment included in last session’s appropriations helped keep the project on budget.

Mayville requested continued capital funding to complete Old Main (the presentation described a roughly $35 million remaining budget need to finish the project after prior work). The renovation is intended to consolidate student services in a single corridor, improve classroom and life‑safety systems, and address large deferred‑maintenance items: Old Main accounted for about 60% of the campus’s deferred maintenance total prior to the project.

Separately, Mayville asked for $1.3 million to install campus card‑access controls, interior and exterior IP cameras, server capacity and upgraded pedestrian lighting. Hill told the committee the campus currently lacks a seated campus police force and that the access and surveillance work would address repeated life‑safety and security concerns for students and staff. The university said that the Senate engrossment did not include that security appropriation.

Vanhorn also described Mayville’s role helping Dickinson State University during a recent nursing‑program disruption: when Dickinson’s nursing faculty resigned, Mayville agreed to serve as nursing administrator and to supply faculty and administrative capacity to keep students in their programs while Dickinson recruited replacements. Vanhorn said Mayville deployed nursing administrators and faculty \"to help your neighbor, help the students, and keep the train moving.\" He said the arrangement imposed additional workload on Mayville faculty and required temporary reallocation of institutional staffing.

Hill and Vanhorn reviewed Mayville’s financial recovery: after a low Composite Financial Index (CFI) during the allotment period, Mayville’s CFI improved to healthy levels, undesignated reserves were restored to roughly $1.1 million and total designated and undesignated reserves rose to about $6.5 million. The university asked the committee to finish the Old Main funding and consider the security project to support student and campus safety.

Ending: Vanhorn thanked the Legislature and said Mayville will continue to pursue enrollment and workforce programs that place graduates into North Dakota jobs.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Monday, Mar 10, 2025 7:56 AM - 11:55 AM","oneSentenceSummary","Mayville State University officials told the House appropriations committee they need state funds to finish the Old Main renovation and to install card access, cameras and lighting for campus safety, even as the university reported recent enrollment growth and improved financial health.","taxTitle","Appropriations - Education and Environment Division, House of Representatives, Legislative, North Dakota","taxId",28886,"location","North Dakota","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6289957,"UND student government president praises affordability, urges continued behavioral‑health support",1952,5111000,7063000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b&start=5111&end=7063","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b/thumbnail_5111000.jpg","/articles/6289957/North-Dakota/UND-student-government-president-praises-affordability-urges-continued-behavioralhealth-support","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6289957-2d7407714d89f1b0b4bd5414499638b3/orig.mp4?Expires=1770616476&Signature=UfeXm8kWEFJA3qkFFXrsYWVKut41rlXvbxb~xekOiH~oXQxQ9Q68O5UyQlKwny2GU9MWSS5YsydpvwxF~MuGQHLl-6yOxKN0XoONZWvbXt90aesvB3QBZvvkqO8YRqsEJP5PDhXNGCk9lBtRCnB~R6zbkJZipGP-YNIO2yjD5iSOmBzr8D70RIT66KJomvp7RYlpM2bwVZHj9tn9BBW4qJrG6FxV8Pbb8iSkpCbqMmNJy9XgEk0q63uM8Innsc41a4JGiw7oIZ6msqGUDHgCzIm6Ui3i33XJssVyPMxIzc~ATjbS5lCGYDX7EIDPqcDFFs6No-R0gD73kPYt3n-Olw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Connor Ferguson, student body president at the University of North Dakota, told the House Appropriations — Education and Environment Division that UND’s affordability, campus environment and student services are strong draws for students and urged continued investment in behavioral health, research and AI education.

\"I will be graduating with debt far below the national average,\" Ferguson told the committee, describing cost and campus improvements as a key recruitment and retention advantage. He said UND’s campus beautification and personal attention from faculty and staff were important to his decision to enroll and to other students who choose UND over higher‑cost alternatives.

Ferguson thanked the Legislature for behavioral‑health funding provided in the last biennium and said that support has allowed UND to hire clinicians and keep counseling wait times at acceptable levels. He described student‑run peer programs — including the Green Bandana peer‑support initiative and the Green Tag program for faculty and staff — that complement clinical services and help students find care quickly.

On workforce and campus priorities, Ferguson told the committee students support investments that grow research and keep graduates in North Dakota. He expressed student support for challenge‑grant funding and statewide AI investments, saying students and employers will benefit if higher‑education institutions can train people in AI systems and computing infrastructure.

Ending: Ferguson concluded his remarks by asking the committee to weigh student experience, affordability and behavioral health alongside capital and operating decisions for higher education.","Connor Ferguson, University of North Dakota student body president, told the House appropriations committee that affordability and recent state behavioral‑health funding helped him choose UND and urged continued funding for counseling, research and AI education.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6289968,"UND outlines budget pressures to House appropriations committee, warns tuition likely to rise",5236,723000,5959000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b&start=723&end=5959","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b/thumbnail_723000.jpg","/articles/6289968/North-Dakota/UND-outlines-budget-pressures-to-House-appropriations-committee-warns-tuition-likely-to-rise","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6289968-67d9909fb081bfba41637be37576a127/orig.mp4?Expires=1770616476&Signature=WWOKgR8UNv1YMZJQ-setXrUCWsLiUCGmSEZLQgOKn4Zu9eGYgq80w5mNzXtOp0XOsIUzaD5VdYKSRZ2BPVCzHRs7uvLRBFZUNwlMxDSIKxrMDGsZbSL~9vMQSN~lQ-Z~BNdDyEzPysuMe01-pDkZoi2jdMjtvRaj4crkLkIW3oXs1Zr9yvPbBXWX5cDhR1mAZcmM~U96WUOzOEbyF-mUY0ONekdnnNUhpgoTCu4qNY33C08TL1J1FniKUohz9xgAtUvUnlMxYnXdNFINNarSsOaw1lfirB6D4bPnVewTwg432I6xpJNpWoGz2s5lriXrmEoNAB~rpTJBRLKHz44ykg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","University of North Dakota President Andy Armacost told the House Appropriations — Education and Environment Division during a hearing on Senate Bill 2003 that the university has seen enrollment and research gains but still faces major operating cost pressures that the Senate’s current version of the budget does not fully cover.

Armacost said the Senate’s plan leaves the University of North Dakota and its medical school short of the funding needed to cover inflation, salary and benefit increases and other operating costs. \"We would have to increase the UND tuition by just over 5% and the School of Medicine’s tuition by just over 4%,\" Armacost said in testimony to the committee.

The university presented slides showing four categories of operating increases — market equity and merit, benefits/cost to continue, inflation-driven operating costs and other systemwide requests — that together require roughly $60 million in additional resources across UND and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Armacost told the panel that the general fund share in the Senate engrossed bill covers only part of that need and that the remainder would fall to tuition and other local sources.

Armacost reviewed recent university performance and investments as context for the request. He said UND’s fall headcount rose above 15,000 and research expenditures grew from about $110 million to roughly $197 million during a recent four-year period. He also warned the committee that federal proposals to change overhead (indirect cost) rates at agencies such as the National Institutes of Health could reduce UND revenue, saying, \"if they adjusted the overhead rates... it would probably be about a close to a $2,000,000 loss, to the university.\" He said university leaders were monitoring litigation and agency actions in Washington, D.C.

Armacost highlighted state-directed, one-time investments that have gone to UND in recent years: $2.5 million appropriated to the Economic Diversification Research Fund for UND, multi-million-dollar support for nanomaterials and space-related work, and state challenge-grant funding that the university said has leveraged donor giving. He noted the Senate had funded several NDUS initiatives at levels below their requests but singled out an $8 million Senate award to the economic diversification fund and the Senate decision to add a combined $25 million in SIF-designated items across system programs.

On facilities, Armacost reviewed UND’s campus master plan and deferred-maintenance pool, explaining how tuition increases and other dedicated local funds are being saved and used to reduce deferred maintenance over time. He said the institution uses a combination of state tiers funding, extraordinary repair money and an internally managed deferred-maintenance pool funded in part by a portion of tuition increases.

Committee members asked about the mix of on-campus versus online enrollment growth, retention and graduation rates, and the federal research outlook. Armacost told the panel UND’s growth since 2023 has been driven about 60–65% by on-campus enrollment gains and that both retention and graduation rates have improved. He also flagged emerging areas of campus investment — high‑performance computing, artificial intelligence, satellite and nanomaterials research — and said some system and statewide AI initiatives remain unfunded in the Senate version of SB 2003.

The university and committee staff also discussed how increases requested in the bill would flow through the North Dakota University System funding formula and where nursing, workforce innovation and student grant requests appear in Senate language. Armacost and UND finance staff also said they would supply the committee with additional breakouts — for example, scholarship disbursements tied to endowment payouts and program-level details the committee requested.

UND said it could supply the committee with more detailed, itemized data — including a breakdown of scholarship payouts from endowed funds and the requested list of responses for system questions — and emphasized that the enrollment and research gains do not eliminate the need to cover rising operating costs.

Ending: Armacost closed by introducing UND staff who would offer more detail during the remainder of the hearing and by reiterating the university’s willingness to provide follow‑up material the committee requested.","University of North Dakota President Andy Armacost told the House Appropriations — Education and Environment Division during a hearing on Senate Bill 2003 that enrollment and research growth have helped UND but that the Senate bill leaves operational funding gaps; under the Senate proposal UND would likely need a tuition increase of just over 5%.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6289962,"UND medical school seeks health‑professions addition, expansion of simulation and rural training",2252,5948000,8200000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b&start=5948&end=8200","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2531736-272faef1b26d8bffaf82cf94fb09ae8b/thumbnail_5948000.jpg","/articles/6289962/North-Dakota/UND-medical-school-seeks-healthprofessions-addition-expansion-of-simulation-and-rural-training","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6289962-e645ed59273c4dd249f663d3ad077cb3/orig.mp4?Expires=1770616476&Signature=gvbNEcPH8PO95tnyBJCQWxJfm4Uv-FZp4fqer0qLB1PbRCpd~MJeMAtp8VVnhdLqSr-gETUGkFKCZvxCma8YkWxpjCFHfpFlhS5qKdj6shm9wbQd~9M9BfIA92wz-XF3nQTfs~EeGlF-ffg~SRAtzeacHJHF2imD4RKKJscQqwr6f~S161aBq2l0ZA5L7lyyTIRSUy7-8uHMDwoYAGvTHn-fw8dM7VZp3ui4lChN6IhD5ejhIwqvbE~CVS9oDs5EazVTX3gjiX0VxEl7gV7-QgGSW53qGLYD5LChVJ9bY~5IP7q4V0mcnrfWf77LUE4S-lX71M5b~mY35yvRcs7EuA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, vice president for health affairs and dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), told the House Appropriations — Education and Environment Division that rapid growth in the school’s programs and rural workforce needs are driving a request for a health‑professions addition and ongoing support for simulation and mobile training.

\"It takes a long time to grow a doctor,\" Jenkins told the committee, describing the school’s four‑campus footprint, 300 medical students, roughly 180 residents and fellows and more than 1,350 volunteer clinical faculty across the state. She said the SMHS has increased medical students and residents substantially in recent years and that a larger, modern training facility is needed to sustain that growth and expand interprofessional education.

Jenkins said the medical school is seeking $55 million in state funding for a three‑story, roughly 95,000‑square‑foot addition that would bring the College of Nursing and allied health professions into closer proximity with medical education; UND has identified $40 million in local funds and philanthropic commitments to help reach a $95 million project cost. The plan would permit a simulation hospital and more team‑based training for physicians, nurses and allied health students, and she said the proposal includes a timeline for design, demolition and construction stretching through 2029–2030 if funded.

The dean also described Simulation in Motion (SIM) work that brings simulation training into rural communities. Jenkins said SIM has trained more than 30,000 learners and noted recent federal economic development funding totaling about $1.3 million awarded in December 2024. The SMHS asked the committee for annual operating support to staff smaller, mobile simulation units; Jenkins told lawmakers the school requested $1 million per year to staff new van‑based simulation outreach capacity.

Jenkins framed the medical school’s case around workforce statistics: she said about 79% of family medicine physicians practicing in North Dakota are SMHS alumni, and roughly half of all physicians in the state are graduates of UND’s programs. She also described targeted pipeline programs — including scholarship‑backed training that requires post‑graduation service obligations — and noted the school’s high ranking for graduates practicing rural and primary care.

Committee members asked Jenkins about specialty shortages (for example, obstetrics‑gynecology) and how many nursing students the school currently trains; Jenkins said she would follow up with program‑level numbers and noted the school is pursuing multiple strategies — including admissions pipelines, INMED and partnership work with tribal colleges — to increase in‑state matriculation and training.

Ending: Jenkins concluded by thanking the legislature for recent support and urging continued investment in the health professions facility and simulation staffing that she said will expand rural access to care and strengthen workforce capacity across North Dakota.","Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, dean and vice president for health affairs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, told the House appropriations panel that the SMHS needs a new health‑professions addition and additional operating support for mobile simulation to keep pace with expanded class sizes and rural workforce needs.","actionData","errors"]

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