BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Managers in several different fields in North Dakota’s workforce are finding themselves in a tough position. They desperately need workers. The North Dakota University System established a new program to help fill the gap.

With the help of legislators, the NDUS established the Workforce Education Innovation Fund, a program created to give North Dakota’s college campuses the resources to create educational programming that helps grow the state’s workforce.

“We are extremely grateful to the late Representative Cynthia Schreiber-Beck, who really heard the campuses’ need for what we call seed money to start up new and innovative programs,” said Lisa Johnson, vice chancellor of Academic Affairs with the NDUS.

The legislature provided $10 million to the fund during the

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