Larry C. Skogen

A native of Hettinger, N.D., Larry C. Skogen, Ph. D., holds degrees from Dickinson State University (B.S. in secondary education), University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg (M.A. in history), and Arizona State University, Tempe (Ph.D. in history).

Retired from a career in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Skogen has been involved in education as a high school teacher and as a college faculty member and administrator in a variety of military and civilian institutions, including the United States Air Force Academy and the New Mexico Military Institute. In 2007 the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education appointed him as the sixth CEO of Bismarck State College (BSC). In 2013 he was selected as the interim chancellor of the North Dakota University System and returned to BSC as president in 2015. He retired from that position and became president emeritus in 2020.

He is author of Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1996, and in 2024 the University of Nebraska Press published his To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904. A second volume to this work covering the years 1905-1909 is forthcoming.

Working with his brother, Gary E. Skogen, he wrote Not All Heroes: An Unapologetic Memoir of the Vietnam War, 1971-1972, published by The Dakota Institute in 2013.