UND names Karla Mongeon-Stewart as next vice president for finance and operations – Grand Forks Herald

GRAND FORKS — UND President Andrew Armacost declared on Tuesday, July 12, the university’s subsequent vice president for finance and operations will be a common encounter on campus.

Karla Mongeon-Stewart, who is currently serving as the associate vice president for finance, will turn into the subsequent vice president for finance and operations/main operating officer. She replaces Jed Shivers, who is departing for a equivalent place at a college in New York.

Mongeon-Stewart will start off her new duties on a 3-year renewable contract, helpful July 18.

“I am thrilled to announce that I have appointed Karla Mongeon-Stewart as our new vice president for finance & operations/main working officer,” Armacost explained. “Karla has provided remarkable leadership as our affiliate vice president for finance, overseeing a team of just about 60 specialists who preserve our economical engines and budgeting devices working.”

In her new position, Mongeon-Stewart will present leadership for the university’s money and operational divisions, including human means, community basic safety, services, affirmative action/equal opportunity employment, information management and the Chester Fritz Auditorium.

“I am so honored to be continuing my professional journey at UND,” Mongeon-Stewart stated. “I have worked with so many amazing colleagues around the previous seven yrs at UND and less than Dr. Armacost’s management, I am self-assured we will continue the positive trajectory.”

A native of Fargo, Mongeon-Stewart graduated from North Dakota Point out College with a degree in accounting in 1996. She completed her master’s in enterprise administration from the University of Mary in Bismarck in 2003.

A qualified general public accountant considering the fact that 1998, Mongeon-Stewart has worked in an array of money analyst positions through her profession. She entered the realm of increased education finance in 2003, spending 4 several years as the director of finance and controller at Bismarck Condition School. From there, she became finances director at NDSU, concentrating on adjust administration and approach advancement. Upcoming, she served as assistant vice president for educational affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and then main fiscal officer at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

In 2015, Mongeon-Stewart joined UND as associate vice president for finance soon after a nationwide search.

“In her new position, Karla will showcase her strong leadership across the total organization of finance and functions,” explained Armacost. “Her condition-broad encounters will be a genuine asset to UND as we enter the next legislative session. Karla has completed visionary work in the environment of bigger education and learning, and I seem ahead to acquiring her main the division next the departure of Jed Shivers in mid-July.”

Mongeon-Stewart has worked intently with Shivers in all issues connected to UND’s economic setting up and operations. In addition to assisting UND navigate the pandemic, Mongeon-Stewart and Shivers’ leadership coincided with a surge in new design, renewal and transformation across campus. They also ongoing to search for strategies to fund new design and lessen deferred maintenance expenses by way of community-non-public partnerships.

Their monetary management served guidebook UND by way of the 2021 legislative session and subsequent special session, securing approvals for a number of significant-affect UND assignments, which include a Merrifield-Twamley renovation, new runway apron for UND Aerospace and quite a few space exploration initiatives.

“Jed has been an amazing mentor and colleague, and has positioned the division and the university on strong ground to confidently navigate the at any time-transforming globe of higher schooling,” reported Mongeon-Stewart. “I am so thrilled to be top a talented finance and operations staff and to continue my collaboration with all the divisions of the University for the advantage of our students, employees and school and our point out.”

Shivers also credits Mongeon-Stewart for profitable campus-vast implementation of the MIRA monetary administration product, as perfectly as her get the job done with differential-tuition management and advancements to organization processes at UND. He called Mongeon-Stewart a “highly collaborative human being in the (finance) division and throughout the college.”

“I am pretty gratified to learn that Karla Mongeon-Stewart will come to be the following vice president for finance and operations,” Shivers explained. “Her activities at the corporate stage in just a few North Dakota schools and universities as properly as her tenure performing with the provost at a College of Texas system campus give her with superb knowledge and knowledge. She also has a eager eye for recruiting, retaining and marketing talent.

“With Karla becoming a member of President Armacost’s crew and doing the job closely with Provost Url and the other vice presidents, UND will carry on its strategic expansion in teaching, analysis and provider on behalf of the citizens of North Dakota and our area.”