GRAND FORKS — Less than a year into her work as dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and vice president for Health Affairs, Marjorie Jenkins and her team are working to get more North Dakotans into the school, as well as more students in general.

Jenkins said her past jobs have prepared her for the tasks at hand.

“I absolutely love this job,” she said. “I really hope it’s my last job, I love it so much. And I think there will always be exciting things that we’ll be doing here.”

The top project is called North Dakota 85, a program SMHS started in hopes of raising the number of North Dakota residents enrolled in the MD (doctor of medicine) and PA (physician assistant) programs to 85%.

The program is in response to members of the Legislature asking

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