03/09/26: Ed Schafer is the former Governor of North Dakota and Secretary of Agriculture, and is filling in for Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views."

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education selected Rick Berg as interim president of NDSU in January. He’s taking over for President David Cook, who served as President of NDSU since 2022, and started at Iowa State University on March 1. 

Rick Berg served 26 years in the North Dakota Legislature, including terms as majority leader and speaker of the House and represented North Dakota in Congress.

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)