Saleem Shaik, assistant professor of agribusiness and applied economics, has been reappointed as an executive council member of the Western Agricultural Economic Association. His three-year term will expire in 2015.

As a member of the council, Shaik will be part of the executive board meetings that deals with the membership, journal details and other association-related issues. The committee will nominate people for awards from their respective universities and they will be part of ad hoc committees to address any problems that may occur.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.