Your donation helps us to give region a voice while teaching the next generation of publishers.
Student Impact
Students who successfully complete the Certificate in Publishing (CiP) learn the history, business, and practice of small press and university press publishing. Signature activities of the program include learning how to letterpress print a chapbook of poetry on 19th century equipment and touring the state-of-the-art printing site Friesens, one the largest book printers in North America. Pictured here is CiP graduate Luke Hauge, running the machine to saddle stitch our chapbooks. The students in the Practicum in Publishing work in teams of two to four people to take a manuscript–acquired through our blind peer review process–from its early form to a published book, including project management, copyediting, and producing copy and metadata for marketing, publicity, and distribution. Students have gone on to fabulous internships, like Brian Keidel, who interned with Copper Canyon Press in Washington state, and to various publishing careers in marketing, contracts, digital conversion, and project management. Taylor Blumer, for example, landed a fantastic position with South Dakota State Society Press as Marketing Director and Associate Editor. Grace Stang, one of our most recent graduates, now works as Production Services Coordinator for the Forum Communications Company. The CiP courses may be taken at the undergraduate and graduate student levels. They are also offered for nonmatriculating students.
Author Impact
Often authors come to us as emerging writers. Dr. Denise Lajimodiere was a successful poet–and now serves as North Dakota Poet Laureate–but her scholarly work was not gaining the traction it deserved. She and Editor in Chief Dr. Suzzanne Kelley reviewed Denise’s research and manuscript, and together they re-envisioned its format while staying true to Denise’s persistent aim to keep the voices of her oral interviewees front and center. The result was her award-winning debut work of scholarship, Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors. Among many awards and modes of recognition, Stringing Rosaries was one of three finalists for the prestigious Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize in 2020. The attention Denise’s work received put her in the spotlight for journalists nationally and internationally, leading to speaking engagements and testimony, furthering the hard work of making the public at large aware of the boarding school crisis and inducing politicians and activists to support the healing of intergenerational trauma.
“Your donation helps us to continue to give region a voice while teaching the next generation of publishers.”
―Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher and Assoc. Professor of Practice, NDSU Press
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If you are interested in making an endowment or leaving NDSU Press in your estate, please contact Megan Bartholomay, Director of Development for NDSU Press at the NDSU Foundation.
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