Former NSCS executive director dies

 Krause was a native of Petersburg, Nebraska, earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wayne State College and a doctorate from the University of Nebraska. 

During his career in higher education, Krause was an education professor and provost at the University of South Dakota-Springfield. He also had the latter position at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion for five years.

Krause was the deputy commissioner for academic affairs for the Montana State System for three years in the 1980s and commissioner of higher education for Montana State Board of Regents for Higher Education from 1985 to 1990.

He was the head of the Nebraska State College System from 1991 through the end of 1999, when he retired from the position.

For about three months beginning in November 1996, Krause also was acting president at Chadron State College while Dr. Sam Rankin took a professional development leave. The previous May, Krause was the Chadron State commencement speaker.

Krause was called out of retirement twice in the early 2000s. He initially served as interim president of Mount Marty College at Yankton, South Dakota, and then was interim commissioner of higher education in Montana.