Bemidji student earns East Tennessee State University dean's list honor

Aiden Larson of Bemidji earned a place on East Tennessee State University’s spring 2026 dean’s list after completing at least 12 credits and posting a 3.5 grade point average. The Johnson City, Tennessee university said the honor also requires no grade below B- in any course.

ETSU said more than 4,250 students were named to the spring 2026 dean’s list, putting Larson’s recognition inside a broad campuswide achievement list rather than a small departmental award. For Bemidji and the rest of Beltrami County, it is another local name in a public record of college success that reaches well beyond northwest Minnesota.

The same local roundup also pointed to North Dakota State University in Fargo, where additional students from the area recently graduated. NDSU said about 1,475 students were expected to participate in spring 2026 commencement ceremonies, and 2,107 students were eligible for spring graduation. Those numbers show how hometown students from Bemidji move through a regional higher-education pipeline that stretches into North Dakota and back into Minnesota communities.

Bemidji State University offered a similar window into that pipeline, saying 604 students earned dean’s list honors for spring 2026. The university also said its Office of Communications and Marketing typically notifies the honoree’s hometown newspaper within six weeks after the end of a semester, a practice that helps push student names back into local circulation after they appear on campus records.

Together, the three institutions give Bemidji readers a clear picture of where students are landing right now: on dean’s lists, in commencement programs and in hometown newspaper notices that mark academic progress one semester at a time.