Governor Jack Dalrymple has appointed Tim Flakoll to the North Dakota Humanities Council for a three year term as one of the three gubernatorial positions.
Tim Flakoll has served as the provost for Tri-College University since 2006 and as a State Senator since 1998. As a Senator, he has served on the Senate Education committee since 1998 including time as Vice-Chair of the committee. He has served as Chair of the Senate Agriculture committee since 2003 and Chair of the Select Senate Committee on Appointments to the Board of Higher Education and the Interim Natural Resources committee. Flakoll has served for the past four years as Vice-chair of the interim Higher Education committee. Flakoll has held more than 30 offices on boards in North Dakota and the Midwest. Flakoll served as Vice-President and General Manager for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks and worked as a missionary in the Country of Slovakia.
The North Dakota Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The humanities inspire the NDHC’s vision of a thoughtful, respectful, actively engaged society that will be able to meet the challenge of sustaining our democracy across the many divisions of modern society and deal responsibly with the shared challenges we currently face as members of an interdependent world.
The mission of the NDHC is to invest in the people of North Dakota by creating and sustaining humanities programs that provide a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better vision for the future. In 2010, the NDHC hosted the Legacy of Eric Sevareid symposium in Bismarck, North Dakota, which sought to illuminate the vision of one of North Dakota’s most famous native sons by providing a discussion forum for historical and contemporary issues in public policy and news broadcast. Keynote speakers included national news figures Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Nick Clooney, and Bob Edwards.
For more information about the work of the North Dakota Humanities Council, visit the council’s website at www.ndhumanities.org or call the council office at 1-800-338-6543, or contact a council member from your area.
