Working in Partnership with UND Leadership

 

Dear Friend: I wanted to make you aware that on Tuesday I will be meeting with UND President-Select Robert Kelley to commemorate his first day as the 11th President of the University of North Dakota.  In early June, I had the opportunity to visit with President-Select Kelley in my Washington office.  At this meeting, President-Select Kelley and I discussed how I could help him in my role as U.S. Senator to keep UND on its path of excellence.  Like President-Select Kelley, I am committed to strong higher education programs in North Dakota. In fact, the University of North Dakota benefited from over $66 million in federal programs in fiscal year 2007, which encompassed student aid, grants, contracts, and other support. This represented 18% of UND's budget that year. More recently, the Congressional Delegation and I secured more than $32 million in funding for specific projects at UND for 2008, including the EERC and the UAV Center of Excellence. I look forward to welcoming President-Select Kelley to his new position, and working with him to support quality higher education in our State.  Sincerely, KENT CONRAD United States Senator You have received this e-mail because you have signed up for Education or Economic Development Issue Updates or have signed up for Issue Updates and may be in the area. If you do not want to receive future updates, you can remove yourself from this mailing list by visiting my Web page at http://conrad.senate.gov/signup.html. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to others who you think would be interested in this information. If this e-mail was forwarded to you and you would like to sign up to receive future updates directly from me, please visit my Web page at http://conrad.senate.gov/signup.html.