Hamid Shirvani, right, the then newly hired chancellor of North Dakota’s university system, speaks on March 13 to Robert Vallie, the student representative on North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education, in the student union of Bismarck State College in Bismarck shortly after the board voted 5-3 to hire Shirvani as chancellor. The chancellor is the chief administrative officer of North Dakota’s 11 public colleges. Shirvani replaced William Goetz.
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