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

GRAND FORKS — UND President Andrew Armacost announced on Tuesday, July 12, the university’s future vice president for finance and functions will be a familiar encounter on campus.

Karla Mongeon-Stewart, who is at the moment serving as the associate vice president for finance, will come to be the subsequent vice president for finance and functions/chief functioning officer. She replaces Jed Shivers, who is departing for a related situation at a college in New York.

Mongeon-Stewart will start off her new duties on a three-yr renewable agreement, effective July 18.

“I am thrilled to announce that I have appointed Karla Mongeon-Stewart as our new vice president for finance & functions/main operating officer,” Armacost said. “Karla has provided remarkable leadership as our affiliate vice president for finance, overseeing a group of just about 60 industry experts who preserve our fiscal engines and budgeting systems running.”

In her new role, Mongeon-Stewart will give leadership for the university’s money and operational divisions, which include human sources, general public safety, amenities, affirmative motion/equal possibility work, documents administration and the Chester Fritz Auditorium.

“I am so honored to be continuing my skilled journey at UND,” Mongeon-Stewart mentioned. “I have worked with so numerous wonderful colleagues about the past seven many years at UND and underneath Dr. Armacost’s leadership, I am confident we will proceed the favourable trajectory.”

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

A accredited public accountant since 1998, Mongeon-Stewart has labored in an array of monetary analyst positions all over her occupation. She entered the realm of increased education and learning finance in 2003, expending four decades as the director of finance and controller at Bismarck Condition School. From there, she turned price range director at NDSU, focusing on modify management and process enhancement. Following, she served as assistant vice president for educational affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and then chief financial officer at Rocky Mountain Higher education in Billings, Montana.

In 2015, Mongeon-Stewart joined UND as associate vice president for finance after a national research.

“In her new function, Karla will showcase her potent management across the complete organization of finance and operations,” said Armacost. “Her state-extensive activities will be a genuine asset to UND as we enter the following legislative session. Karla has performed visionary get the job done in the globe of bigger instruction, and I seem forward to owning her main the division following the departure of Jed Shivers in mid-July.”

Mongeon-Stewart has worked carefully with Shivers in all issues similar to UND’s money setting up and functions. In addition to encouraging UND navigate the pandemic, Mongeon-Stewart and Shivers’ leadership coincided with a surge in new development, renewal and transformation across campus. They also continued to request approaches to fund new construction and decrease deferred routine maintenance fees through general public-personal partnerships.

Their economic management served information UND by means of the 2021 legislative session and subsequent unique session, securing approvals for many superior-effects UND projects, which include a Merrifield-Twamley renovation, new runway apron for UND Aerospace and many house investigation initiatives.

“Jed has been an wonderful mentor and colleague, and has positioned the division and the college on sound floor to confidently navigate the at any time-modifying planet of better education and learning,” said Mongeon-Stewart. “I am so psyched to be main a gifted finance and operations staff and to continue on my collaboration with all the divisions of the University for the benefit of our college students, staff and college and our state.”

Shivers also credits Mongeon-Stewart for successful campus-wide implementation of the MIRA financial management model, as well as her perform with differential-tuition administration and enhancements to company procedures at UND. He named Mongeon-Stewart a “highly collaborative individual inside the (finance) division and across the college.”

“I am really gratified to learn that Karla Mongeon-Stewart will turn into the upcoming vice president for finance and operations,” Shivers explained. “Her ordeals at the company level inside of a few North Dakota faculties and universities as effectively as her tenure functioning with the provost at a College of Texas technique campus supply her with excellent expertise and know-how. She also has a keen eye for recruiting, retaining and advertising and marketing talent.

“With Karla joining President Armacost’s staff and performing intently with Provost Connection and the other vice presidents, UND will carry on its strategic progress in educating, research and assistance on behalf of the citizens of North Dakota and our area.”