In all his years at Northern, Chancellor Greg Kegel has never been more optimistic about the campus and its future.

Kegel is an institution at his campus, Montana State University-Northern. He’s been there 48 years. He started as a student, kept his loyalties to Northern when he was a teacher at Havre High School for six years, and then came back to Northern as a teacher and administrator and eventually as chancellor.

As he sat at the desk in his Cowan Hall office last week during an interview with the Herald, Kegel reflected on the current state of affairs at Northern.