Andrew Armacost is the 13th and current president of the University of North Dakota, and a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

His master's thesis focused on optimizing the scheduling and sequencing of railroad yards and transportation networks, and was advised by Professor (and later Chancellor) Cynthia Barnhart.

After completing his master's degree, he served as an instructor in the Department of Management at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from July 1995 to August 1997.

[3] In 2018, Brigadier General Armacost announced that he would retire effective August 1, 2019, having served a total of 19 years of his 30-year USAF career at the Air Force Academy.

[7] In September 2021, Former UND Police Chief Eric Plummer said that Armacost fired one of the two administrators that he believed discriminated against him because of his political convictions.