Title 15, Education

The state commissioner of higher education shall provide a report to the legislative management on state board of higher education policies regarding communications between board members and board member access to current and historic board information.

The North Dakota university system and the state board of higher education may not deny a member of the governing body access to a record that is closed or confidential, as defined in chapter 44-04, including a meeting record, whether written or recorded, unless otherwise prohibi…

1. In a dormitory or living facility controlled by an institution under the control of the state board of higher education, a restroom or shower room accessible by multiple residents at the same time must be designated for use exclusively for males or exclusively for females. 2. …

An affiliated nonprofit organization that provides support to and is organized and operated for the benefit of an institution under the control of the state board of higher education may deposit money into an institution account in the Bank of North Dakota for the purpose of bene…

Any student organization recognized by an institution under the control of the state board of higher education may deposit money into institution accounts in the Bank of North Dakota to be used for the benefit of students and student organizations or for charitable purposes. An e…

The state commissioner of higher education shall provide an annual report to the legislative management regarding trends in higher education, including state and regional student enrollment, North Dakota university system institution reserves, state and regional tuition rates, st…

The state board of higher education shall provide a disclosure of the financial condition of an institution to the qualified applicants designated as finalists pursuant to section 44-04-18.27 for the position of president of an institution. The disclosure of financial condition m…

The president of an institution under the control of the state board of higher education may adopt policies, procedures, and directives for the institution, with input but no authoritative control from faculty and others through shared governance. The commissioner of higher educa…

1. The state board of higher education may provide award funds to institutions under its control, excluding the university of North Dakota and North Dakota state university, to create or enhance educational programs that address the workforce needs of North Dakota business and in…

1. A student's active participation in a health care sharing ministry, as defined under chapter 50-37, satisfies any requirement that a student enrolled in an institution of higher education maintain health care coverage, except as provided in subsection 2. 2. Notwithstanding sub…

The state university of North Dakota established and located at the city of Grand Forks shall be the university of the state.

The state board of higher education shall provide at the university of North Dakota suitable means for experimentation and practical testing of the mineral and other allied resources of the state in order to demonstrate their fitness for mining and manufacturing industries.

The alumni association of the university of North Dakota, a corporation, with the advice and consent of the state board of higher education, may select a space and plat of ground upon the campus of the university, not exceeding three hundred feet [91.44 meters] in length and one …

The title to the ground selected by the alumni association for an alumni building must remain forever in the state, subject to the purposes specified. The title to the alumni building must remain in the alumni association until it may be relinquished or granted formally to the st…

In any case wherein any person, corporation, or limited liability company shall have made any gift to the university of North Dakota, whether by donation, bequest, devise, or otherwise, upon condition that the university of North Dakota must raise a matching, equivalent, or count…

The state board of higher education is hereby authorized to plat and replat, and after such platting, to sell and convey tracts of land lying within the east thirty-one acres [12.55 hectares] of the north half of the southwest quarter of section five in township one hundred fifty…

A child welfare research bureau is hereby established. The bureau must be administered and funded by and in conjunction with the university of North Dakota. The university shall appoint a director.

The purpose of the child welfare research bureau is to conduct applied research on matters pertaining to the welfare of children and youth in this state. The bureau may render services consistent with its purpose, including: 1. Compilation, analysis, publication, and disseminatio…

1. There is established at the university of North Dakota school of medicine a fetal alcohol syndrome center. 2. The state board of higher education shall appoint a director of the fetal alcohol syndrome program. The director shall prepare an annual report on the status of fetal …

The child evaluation and treatment program at the university of North Dakota medical center shall develop a clinic to provide both initial diagnostic assessment and re-evaluation of children with fetal alcohol syndrome. The diagnostic assessment must include a comprehensive multi…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the dean of the university of North Dakota school of medicine and health sciences may accept and receive gifts, grants, bequests, and donations that are hereby appropriated for use by the university of North Dakota school of medicine a…

The hockey arena constructed on the campus of the university of North Dakota with funds donated by Ralph and Betty Engelstad is officially named the Ralph Engelstad arena.

1. The university of North Dakota college of nursing shall establish and administer a nursing education consortium for the purpose of addressing common concerns in nursing education which produce obstacles in meeting the state's current and future nursing needs, with a focus on t…

1. The state energy research center at the university of North Dakota energy and environmental research center is created to conduct exploratory, transformational, and innovative research that advances future energy opportunities and benefits the state's economy and environment t…

1. The university of North Dakota with the school of medicine and health sciences shall establish the North Dakota center for aerospace medicine under the John D. Odegard school of aerospace sciences. 2. The North Dakota center for aerospace medicine shall: a. Provide mental heal…

1. The university of North Dakota school of law shall employ one full-time staff attorney for the immigration law clinic. The immigration law clinic attorney may not have more than sixty matters open at any one time. 2. Legal services may be provided and legal work may be done re…

The North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science must be located in the city of Fargo in the county of Cass. Wherever the term agricultural college appears in this code, it means the North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science.

Pursuant to section 2 of an Act of Congress of the United States signed August 30, 1890, providing for the further endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, the treasurer of the North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science, Fargo,…

The grants of land accruing to this state by virtue of an Act of Congress donating public lands for the use and support of agricultural colleges, approved February 22, 1889, are accepted with all the conditions and provisions in said Act contained.

The assent of the legislative assembly is hereby given in pursuance of the requirements of section 9 of said Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, to the grant of money therein made and to the establishing of an agricultural experiment station in accordance with section 1 of s…

The legislative assent of the state of North Dakota is hereby given to: 1. The provisions of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations, and for other purposes" approved February 24, 1925. 2. The provisions o…

The agricultural experiment station established in connection with the North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science must be operated under the direction of the state board of higher education for the purpose of conducting experiments in agriculture according t…

The veterinary diagnostic laboratory is located at and is under the supervision and direction of the North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science. The laboratory shall conduct diagnosis of farm and domestic animals and poultry suspected of having diseases and …

There is established an economic feasibility institute to be administered in conjunction with North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science. The university shall appoint a director of the economic feasibility institute.

The purpose of the economic feasibility institute is to initiate, encourage, and enhance the commercial development of both agricultural and nonagricultural products, processes, commodities, and services in North Dakota through the supervision and performance of economic feasibil…

The institute shall render services and exercise powers consistent with its purpose which include, but are not limited to: 1. Providing prefeasibility analyses and reports, including: a. Initial consultations; b. The establishment of levels of funding participation, the level of …

The economic feasibility institute may contract for, accept, and receive grants, gifts, and contributions of money, property, services, or other things of value from individuals, the federal government, limited liability companies, private and public corporations, political subdi…

Materials and data submitted to, or made or received by, the economic feasibility institute, to the extent that the materials or data consist of trade secrets, or commercial, financial, or proprietary information of individuals and entities contracting with the institute or recei…

The North Dakota state university extension service shall appoint regional dairy diagnostic teams consisting of agricultural business management professionals, dairy extension specialists, and dairy industry partners such as nutrition specialists, reproductive specialists, and an…

1. North Dakota state university may establish a beef systems center of excellence in the department of animal and range science. The beef systems center of excellence may: a. Create a model for the development of an integrated meat processing industry; b. Enhance North Dakota st…

The state normal schools established at Valley City in the county of Barnes, at Mayville in the county of Traill, at Minot in the county of Ward, and at Dickinson in the county of Stark, and any other normal schools that may be established by law, are the normal schools of the st…

The school of science must be located at Wahpeton, North Dakota.

The school of forestry must be located at Dakota college, Bottineau, North Dakota.

Nonprofit corporations to be known as institutional holding associations may be formed in the manner, for the purposes, and with the powers, obligations, and limitations prescribed by the applicable provisions of chapter 10-33, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

An institutional holding association has the power: 1. To erect, equip, operate, manage, lease, or sell, as provided in this chapter, dormitories and their necessary equipment and appurtenances to be located upon the campus of the university, of the state university, or of any of…

An institutional holding association is subject to the following limitations and restrictions: 1. Dormitories and their equipment and appurtenances must be erected and installed only according to plans and specifications therefor approved by the state board of higher education an…