GRAND FORKS — UND President Andrew Armacost declared on Tuesday, July 12, the university’s following vice president for finance and operations will be a acquainted face on campus.
Karla Mongeon-Stewart, who is now serving as the affiliate vice president for finance, will turn out to be the next vice president for finance and operations/chief operating officer. She replaces Jed Shivers, who is departing for a similar placement at a university in New York.
Mongeon-Stewart will begin her new duties on a a few-calendar year renewable agreement, helpful July 18.
“I am thrilled to announce that I have appointed Karla Mongeon-Stewart as our new vice president for finance & functions/chief working officer,” Armacost said. “Karla has supplied amazing leadership as our affiliate vice president for finance, overseeing a team of nearly 60 gurus who retain our money engines and budgeting devices working.”
In her new job, Mongeon-Stewart will deliver management for the university’s financial and operational divisions, together with human resources, community protection, amenities, affirmative action/equal prospect employment, information management and the Chester Fritz Auditorium.
“I am so honored to be continuing my specialist journey at UND,” Mongeon-Stewart said. “I have labored with so lots of great colleagues around the past seven several years at UND and beneath Dr. Armacost’s management, I am confident we will proceed the beneficial trajectory.”
A indigenous of Fargo, Mongeon-Stewart graduated from North Dakota Condition University with a diploma in accounting in 1996. She concluded her master’s in small business administration from the University of Mary in Bismarck in 2003.
A accredited public accountant due to the fact 1998, Mongeon-Stewart has worked in an array of economical analyst positions all through her vocation. She entered the realm of higher schooling finance in 2003, investing 4 a long time as the director of finance and controller at Bismarck State College or university. From there, she became spending budget director at NDSU, focusing on alter management and system enhancement. Following, she served as assistant vice president for academic affairs at the College of Texas at Brownsville and then main fiscal officer at Rocky Mountain University in Billings, Montana.
In 2015, Mongeon-Stewart joined UND as associate vice president for finance just after a national lookup.
“In her new job, Karla will showcase her powerful leadership throughout the total organization of finance and functions,” claimed Armacost. “Her condition-huge encounters will be a legitimate asset to UND as we enter the subsequent legislative session. Karla has done visionary do the job in the world of better training, and I seem forward to having her top the division adhering to the departure of Jed Shivers in mid-July.”
Mongeon-Stewart has worked carefully with Shivers in all matters associated to UND’s fiscal scheduling and operations. In addition to aiding UND navigate the pandemic, Mongeon-Stewart and Shivers’ management coincided with a surge in new development, renewal and transformation throughout campus. They also continued to find techniques to fund new building and minimize deferred maintenance fees by general public-non-public partnerships.
Their financial leadership aided manual UND through the 2021 legislative session and subsequent particular session, securing approvals for many superior-effects UND projects, which includes a Merrifield-Twamley renovation, new runway apron for UND Aerospace and a number of place analysis initiatives.
“Jed has been an wonderful mentor and colleague, and has positioned the division and the college on strong ground to confidently navigate the ever-transforming globe of larger education and learning,” mentioned Mongeon-Stewart. “I am so energized to be main a proficient finance and functions crew and to carry on my collaboration with all the divisions of the College for the reward of our learners, workers and college and our point out.”
Shivers also credits Mongeon-Stewart for productive campus-large implementation of the MIRA economical administration model, as very well as her function with differential-tuition administration and advancements to small business procedures at UND. He named Mongeon-Stewart a “highly collaborative particular person in just the (finance) division and throughout the college.”
“I am quite gratified to understand that Karla Mongeon-Stewart will grow to be the following vice president for finance and functions,” Shivers reported. “Her activities at the company level in just three North Dakota colleges and universities as nicely as her tenure working with the provost at a University of Texas program campus supply her with excellent knowledge and know-how. She also has a keen eye for recruiting, retaining and marketing expertise.
“With Karla signing up for President Armacost’s team and functioning intently with Provost Website link and the other vice presidents, UND will continue on its strategic development in training, analysis and support on behalf of the citizens of North Dakota and our area.”