Messages from the President

View official messages and statements from President Cook and other university leaders. Stay up to date with the latest announcements and communications.

April 2, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Federal Action Update: CDC Cuts to COVID Research Grants
March 6, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Federal Actions Update - 3/6/25
February 28, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Federal Actions Update
February 25, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Federal Actions Webpage Now Available
February 18, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Campus Update on the Recent Dear Colleague Letter
February 11, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Federal Research Funding Update
February 3, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Update on Federal Research Funding Freeze
January 29, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Update on OMB Memorandum: Assessing Potential Impacts and Ongoing Actions
January 28, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Update - OMB memorandum on federal grants/loans/financial assistance programs
January 23, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Spring 2025 VSIP offering for eligible employees
January 13, 2025 • Message from President Cook: Spring 2025 Welcome Message
December 2, 2024 • Message from President Cook: Announcing NDSU's Chief of Staff
August 26, 2024 • Message from President Cook: Student Body President Garrett Kuhn

March 28, 2024 • Message from President Cook: Rescheduled Open Forum on Shared Governance
March 15, 2024 • Message from President Cook: Shared Governance Summit
February 8, 2024 • Message from President Cook: VSIP offering for eligible employees
November 1, 2023 • Message from President Cook: Announcement of Vice President for Communications and Marketing
September 21, 2023 • Message from President Cook: Provost Reorganization Follow up

May 5, 2023 • Message from President Cook: President's Legislative Financial Update Presentation
April 26, 2023 • Message from President Cook: President's Councils and initiatives
March 28, 2023 • Message from President Cook: Creation of Online Programs | Professional Advising | Bison Bridge
February 28, 2023 • Message from President Cook: Transform NDSU college mergers, academic leadership, strategic reduction and investment plans
February 14, 2023 • Message from President Cook: Michigan State University acknowledgement and expression of support - Michigan State community
December 16, 2022 • Message from President Cook: Commencement and weather statement for December 16, 2022
October 25, 2022 • Message from President Cook: Communication regarding NDSU's budget
October 13, 2022 • Message from President Cook: Well-being of the people across our NDSU community is one of our five key focus areas
October 7, 2022 • Message from President Cook: NDSU Provost position and Dean of the College of Engineering announcement
September 7, 2022 • Message from President Cook: Initial steps towards the five key focus areas
September 1, 2022 • Message from President Cook: NDSU supports the repatriation efforts of UND to return all ancestral and sacred artifacts
August 18, 2022 • Message from President Cook: NDSU's review of the University’s financial business processes - Huron Consulting Group
August 16, 2022 • Message from President Cook: COVID-19 campus update
August 15, 2022 • Message from President Cook: President Cook's priorities: five key focus areas to advance NDSU’s success and vision