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NDSU Downtown Campus Ad Hoc Committee Holds First Meeting Oct. 13

Posted: 2026-10-04 05:17:37   Expiration: 2026-10-16 05:17:37

A new committee will review how students, faculty, and staff experience NDSU's downtown campus and recommend ways to improve it.

Provost Shari Veil appointed the NDSU Downtown Campus Ad Hoc Committee, and the deans nominated its 21 members. The committee will look at the experiences of the campus community that uses Renaissance Hall, Klai Hall, and Richard H. Barry Hall. It holds its first meeting Oct. 13.

Committee members are:

Faculty and Staff

  • Michael Boland, AgCountry Endowed Chair in Agribusiness, Agribusiness and Applied Economics
  • James Clifton, assistant professor of practice, Accounting and Information Systems
  • Susan Curtis, lecturer and collection manager, Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection, Apparel, Retail Merchandising and Design
  • Tatiana Eggum, academic advisor, College of Business
  • Erik Hanson, associate professor, Agribusiness and Applied Economics
  • Amanda Heidt, research printmaker and PEARS Studio coordinator, Visual Arts
  • Fariz Huseynov, chair and professor, Finance, Supply Chain and Transportation
  • Madeline Sharpe, downtown campus librarian, NDSU Libraries
  • Michael Strand, professor and director, School of Design, Architecture and Art
  • Brittany Taplin, assistant professor, Architecture
  • Anna-Maria Visilia, associate professor, Landscape Architecture
  • Elizabeth Worth, graduate programs coordinator, College of Business
  • Kaylyn Woxland, lecturer, Management and Marketing
  • Joshua Zeis, maker space design technician, School of Design, Architecture and Art

Students

  • Conner Budd, architecture
  • Lucia Ferguson, business administration
  • Anna Hauge, agribusiness
  • Alexander Lara Sanchez, accounting
  • Elizabeth Marzahl, landscape architecture
  • Andrew Myrdal, plant science and agricultural economics
  • Emma Rehder, fine arts

-- Academic Affairs: Haley Hamel