Valley City State University (None)

Valley City State University, in partnership with North Dakota Indian Education Association (NDIEA), North Dakota Education Association-Library Media Association (NDEA-LMA), and the North Dakota Teacher Center (NDTC), will develop and institutionalize Project Nexus, a new graduate curriculum in library and information technologies. North Dakota has been without a master’s level library media degree program since the mid-1970s. Project Nexus will create an online, comprehensive graduate program in Library and Information Technologies to meet national standards for school media certification; recruit 15 graduate students per year from underserved, rural populations; provide tuition assistance to support disadvantaged applicants; and successfully implement a continuing graduate library education program at Valley City State.