GRAND FORKS — University of North Dakota President Andrew Armacost said he doesn’t view the soon-to-open Career Impact Academy as competition to taking in prospective students. Rather, he views it as part of the whole ecosystem of ways to learn.

Alternate learning opportunities for people young and old should be celebrated, he said.

“My stance is that all learning is good learning,” Armacost said. “It’s a great thing for the city of Grand Forks. It’s a great thing for the state of North Dakota. It’s not a competitor to us. It’s a great supplementer of great citizenry that we create together.”

UND is working with other institutions of higher learning as a collaborator, instead of as competition to pull together on workforce development in the state, he said. It is also one of the institu

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