Congratulations to Finance's Jason Reed, whose teams of ND students swept the 2021 Fiscal Policy Challenge, winning first and second places, and tying for third! The winning team included Mendoza and Arts & Letters students Josie Donlon, Michael Flegel, Emma Gran, Bridget Stockrahm and Stephen Vukovits. Jason and economics assistant professor Forrest Spence served as faculty advisers. This is the fourth national championship in five years for Jason and Forrest.

Morgan McCoy is the new director of operations for the Mendoza Graduate Programs (MGP) as of March 1, 2021. As the MGP director of operations, Morgan is responsible for organizing, influencing and executing planning efforts across all Mendoza Graduate Programs and non-degree academic sessions, including orientations, immersions and co-curricular activities. She oversees the MGP operations team that supports academic operations, student onboarding, and events and programming capacities. Some of her immediate objectives include clarifying and improving processes related to how the operations team functions and collaborates with other groups within Mendoza and across campus, as well as improving the processes related to course scheduling, student registration, new-student onboarding and orientation planning. The position reports to the dean.