University of North Dakota
The University of North Dakota (UND) is a comprehensive institute of higher learning in Grand Forks, North Dakota. UND is home to the only schools of medicine and law in the state of North Dakota. 2003 enrollment was approximately 13,000 students.
Academics
The school has ten academic divisions:
- John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Business and Public Administration
- College of Education and Human Development
- School of Engineering and Mines
- Graduate School
- School of Law
- School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- College of Nursing
- Division of Continuing Education
Between them, the University has 89 Undergraduate Majors, 62 Undergraduate Minors, 54 Master's programs, 21 Doctoral programs, two Professional programs (Medicine and Law) and a Specialist diploma program in Educational Leadership. The University also has an interdisciplinary program that allows students to obtain a degree in virtually any course of study.
Athletics
UND's athletic teams bear the name of the "Fighting Sioux." The school colors are green and white. The school's original colors were green, white and pink after North Dakota's state flower, the prairie rose.
UND is in NCAA Division II in all sports except hockey; its men's hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and its women's hockey team is a Division I independent. Its sports teams are often nationally competitive in both divisions.
The school's best-known athletic alumnus is former NBA player and coaching great Phil Jackson.
Campus media
The college newspaper is the Dakota Student. UND operates three public radio stations. KUND-FM rebroadcasts North Dakota Public Radio. KFJM-FM broadcasts other public radio programming and no longer has any locally-produced programs. The licence for KUND-AM has been put up for auction by the university as its transmitter blocks proposed expansion at the university.
UND also runs a local cable channel, which operates as an information billboard. Is also shows city council meetings, as well as a weekly student-produced program, Studio One.
On the UND campus Showtime is replaced on the cable lineup by "Residence Life Cinema." The University separately licences movies for showing on this channel.