Jon McTaggart, president and CEO of American Public Media Group, will be the 33rd recipient of Bemidji State University’s Distinguished Minnesotan Award.<\/p>\n
First presented by Bemidji State in 1981, the Distinguished Minnesotan Award acknowledges the contributions of current or former residents of the state who have performed exemplary service to the people of Minnesota or the United States.<\/p>\n
The Distinguished Minnesotan award was presented annually from 1981-2009, and was not awarded in 2010 or 2012. The honoree traditionally gives Bemidji State’s commencement address. The university’s 96th Commencement ceremony will be held May 8 at the Sanford Center in Bemidji.<\/p>\n
For more information on Bemidji State University’s commencement ceremony, visithttp:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n About Jon McTaggart<\/strong> McTaggart has been deeply involved in the growth of the group since 1983, beginning as an MPR station manager in Bemidji. He has since served in multiple capacities, including general manager, vice president of business development, senior vice president for new media, senior vice president of content and media and chief operating officer. In addition to his roles at American Public Media, McTaggart has led strategic planning, communications, fundraising and business development as executive director of a hospital foundation in Reading, Pa., and advancement and external relations as vice president of a liberal arts university in Riverside, Calif.<\/p>\n He is a member of the Second Harvest Heartland board and has previously served as a board member for the BSU Foundation and National Public Radio.<\/p>\n He and his wife Debra live in Maplewood, Minnesota, and have two daughters and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n McTaggart earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and journalism from Bemidji State and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Kutztown University.<\/p>\n Contact<\/strong> Links<\/strong> Recipients of Bemidji State University’s Distinguished Minnesotan award<\/strong><\/p>\n 1981 Sigurd Olson, naturalist and author Jon McTaggart, president and CEO of American Public Media Group, will be the 33rd recipient of Bemidji State University\u2019s Distinguished Minnesotan Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":20509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,953,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-mybsu","category-news","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20514,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions\/20514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJon McTaggart is chief executive officer of American Public Media Group, the parent company of Minnesota Public Radio, American Public Media and The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles and Classical South Florida in Miami.<\/p>\n
\n• Maryhelen Chadwick, communications and marketing specialist, BSU Alumni and Foundation; (218) 755-2122, mchadwick@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\n• McTaggart’s official bio at Minnesota Public Radio:http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/about\/people\/mpr_people_display.php?aut_id=30245<\/i><\/a>
\n• McTaggart on Twitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jonmctaggart<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n
\n1982 Karl Kassulke, athlete and handicap advocate
\n1983 Janet Dearholt Esty, businesswoman and entrepreneur
\n1984 Frederick F. Manfred, author
\n1985 Dr. John Najarian, transplant surgeon
\n1986 Dr. Harlan Cleveland, political scientist
\n1987 Muriel Buck Humphrey Brown, advocate for the disadvantaged
\n1988 Elmer L. Andersen, businessman and former governor
\n1989 Curtis L. Carlson, businessman and philanthropist
\n1990 William S. Marvin, businessman and community leader
\n1991 Meridel LeSueur, writer and social activist
\n1992 Veda Ponikvar, newspaper publisher
\n1993 Nellie Stone Johnson, political and social activist
\n1994 Cheryl Dickson, leader in humanities programming
\n1995 William H. Kling, innovator in public radio
\n1996 Jerry Willet, businessman and former state senator
\n1997 Ann Bancroft, explorer of the North Pole and South Pole
\n1998 Bob Bergland, congressman and former U.S. secretary of agriculture
\n1999 Coya Knutson, congresswoman
\n2000 Jon Hassler, author and educator
\n2001 Libby Larsen, composer
\n2002 Rosalie Wahl, Minnesota Supreme Court justice
\n2003 Edgar Heteen, entrepreneur and snowmobile pioneer
\n2004 Herb Brooks, men’s ice hockey coach
\n2005 Gerald Vizenor, author and educator
\n2006 Kathleen Blatz, chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
\n2007 Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator & Shiela Wellstone, advocate against domestic abuse
\n2008 Dr. Alex Cirillo, Jr., vice president for community affairs, 3M
\n2009 Don Shelby, television anchor
\n2010 [no award given]
\n2011 Susan Marvin, president of Marvin Windows & Doors
\n2012 [no award given]
\n2013 Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, senior military assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense
\n2014 Trudy Rautio, Carlson Companies CEO
\n2015 Jon McTaggart, president & CEO, American Public Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"