Tim Flakoll, Provost for Tri-College University and Director of Operations
for NDSU Downtown has been selected to serve as President of NDSU Phi
Kappa Phi. Flakoll is lifetime member of Phi Kappa Pi and an alumnus of
North Dakota State University, Harvard University, University of Oxford and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Founded nationally in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most
selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society in the United States, its
territories and the Philippines. The NDSU chapter is the 10th oldest dating
back to 1913. It is the only Phi Kappa Phi chapter in North Dakota.
Flakoll served in the North Dakota Senate for 18 years. There he chaired
the Education and Agriculture committees for 14 years. He was also
selected President Pro Tempore of the Senate. In the Senate, he authored
a constitutional amendment to require statements of fiscal impact on
initiated measures to improve transparency. He also authored transparency
legislation to identify legislators who make open records requests. He was
chief author of legislation to provide funding for all day kindergarten,
funding for early childhood education, laws for humane treatment of
animals and legacy legislation for new funding formulas for K-12 and higher
education.
His work has been recognized in a number of ways including with the
NDSU Doctor of Service Award, Phi Kappa Phi National Ray Sylvester
Distinguished Service Award, COVS ND Volunteer of the Year Award,
Student Advocate of the Year Award from the ND Student’s Association,
Children’s Champion Award from the ND Assoc. for Education of Young
Children, two-time NDSU Outstanding Organization Advisor of the Year,
and three-time Preferred Professor Award. Flakoll served as VP and
General Manager of the FM RedHawks and during his tenure they were
named “Team of the Decade” by Baseball America.
Flakoll has been active in public service and brings extensive experience to
the position having held more than 45 offices with various community,
regional or national organizations. Currently he is chair of the Northern
Plains Ethics Institute, Vice-chair of the Homeward Animal Shelter, and a
church elder. He has served as the Chair of Fargo’s Downtown Community
Partnership and Chair of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a 12-
state partnership with more than 4.2 million college students. Flakoll
chaired the Council of State Governments MLC representing 11 states, four
Canadian Provinces and 82 million people. He is the immediate past Chair
of the FMWF Chamber’s Public Policy Committee.
Other officers serving NDSU Phi Kappa Phi are: Dean Bresciani - Vice-
president and President-elect, Linda Fricker - Secretary, Dennis Cooley -
Treasurer, Terence Jackson - Member at Large, Jeremy Jackson –
Immediate Past President, and Elizbeth Crawford Jackson, Publicity and
Promotion.
