{"id":43755,"date":"2025-08-19T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=43755"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:07:39","slug":"video-happy-new-year-from-the-armacosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2025\/08\/video-happy-new-year-from-the-armacosts\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: &#8216;Happy New Year&#8217; from the Armacosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew and Kathy Armacost ring in new academic year with well wishes and invites for UND community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Armacost(s) Message: 2025 Welcome and an Invitation\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1109734352?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UND\u2019s president and first lady wish everyone a \u201cHappy New Year\u201d as the new academic year is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1109734352\">his first video address of the \u201cnew year,\u201d<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Andrew Armacost is joined by his wife, Kathy, to invite the campus community to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.und.edu\/event\/presidents-state-of-the-university-address-6346?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=University+of+North+Dakota\">State of the University Address<\/a><\/strong>, which will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21, in the Memorial Union ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>At the State of the University Address, the president and fellow University administrators will share what\u2019s to come in the new academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Armacost remarks that in just a few days, campus will be teeming with people \u2014 perhaps amounting to a record headcount of students at UND.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy invites faculty, staff and UND Foundation employees to come to University House for a picnic following the State of the University Address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.und.edu\/event\/picnic-with-the-prez-2219?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=University+of+North+Dakota\"><strong>\u201cPicnic with the Prez\u201d will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/strong><\/a> on the front lawn of the president\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: <em>RSVPs for the picnic were requested by Friday, Aug. 15, but all faculty, staff and UND Foundation staff are welcome to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On order for the picnic are good weather, burgers, brats and tours of University House, Kathy says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew and Kathy Armacost ring in new academic year with well wishes and invites for UND community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":43756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-und"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO: &#039;Happy New Year&#039; 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