Nikki Krueger, new communications director at UND, said it can be difficult picking what goes into an issue of UND Today, which publishes once a week in the summer and twice weekly during the academic year. Some of her duties include working with UND Today, media relations and open-records requests. ADVERTISEMENTIn a letter to the marketing and communications team, Dodds said Dennis’ retirement letter sparked him to re-evaluate the associate director role. Stepping into the assistant vice president position, Dodds said he was challenged to create more capacity for strategic, divisionwide communications work, but his other duties made that difficult. Before being the UND communications director, Krueger was the communications director for the EERC, which underwent a reduction in force in May due to delays in research and project funding.