BOTTINEAU (AP) - Minot State University-Bottineau is preparing for Aug. 1, when the school will officially be known as Dakota College at Bottineau.

Lawmakers and the state Board of Higher Education earlier this year approved the name change to help give the school more of an identity. It still will be affiliated with Minot State.

Bottineau Dean Ken Grosz says signs on campus, in Bottineau and along state Highway 5 east and west of town are being changed to reflect the change in name.

People at the college also are working on the campus Web site to change all references to MSU-Bottineau to Dakota College at Bottineau. The school also is sponsoring a logo contest.

The two-year college was founded in 1906 as North Dakota's state school of forestry.