NDSU Receives $3.6 Million

An NDSU alum is helping paint a brighter picture for art students by giving one of the largest endowments in the university’s history.

President Dean Bresciani started speaking to faculty about new opportunities for students with the gift of art worth 3.6 million dollars.

NDSU alum Jim Falck was a student in the 1990s and passed away in 2013 at 84 years old.

The money will go towards scholarships for visual art students, funding for program and faculty development and international programs.

Students say they are grateful to be able to focus less on money and more on school.

“For there to be less financial stress just open up so much more time and so much more like even brain power just to be creative and focus on your craft and becoming an artists and just the future,” said Jim Falck Scholarship Recipient Carolyn Hausladen.

Falck spent his career as a painter an architect before getting his art degree at 62 years old.