Governor Kristi Noem got back from her Maryland fundraiser in time to celebrate Dakota State University’s further subsumation into the military-industrial complex:
DSU’s press release on the new Army Cyber Command Educational Partnership Agreement doesn’t make clear what specific actions DSU and the Army will be taking together to keep America safe from Russian, Chinese, and Antifa hackers and whoever else is out to get us:
This agreement will “promote joint research, collaboration, educational programs, and professional projects for both parties’ mutual advantage,” said the document, by forging a cooperative relationship to further the educational, research, and service missions. This is the first partnership of its kind for ARCYBER because it encompasses all five of its mission objectives, to operate, defend, attack, influence, and inform.
…As this relationship progresses throughout the five-year agreement, Dakota State and ArmyCyber will develop a deeper understanding of each other’s needs and capabilities, said DSU President José-Marie Griffiths. Through this awareness, students will be able to see cyber career paths they may not be aware of, such as civilian roles available with the military. They may also be on the front lines with jobs that haven’t been created yet [Dakota State University, press release, 2023.06.19].
KELO-TV reports DSU students may get involved in top-secret research. Just remember, young cyber warriors—don’t get too busy to organize your classified files, and don’t take those documents to your summer golf home!
But kudos to DSU for figuring out that one sure way to keep a South Dakota public university running is to hitch its mission to one arm of the big federal government whose funding is entirely insulated from budget cuts. Now DSU can turn to the Legislature and tell them it would be downright unpatriotic not to fund their programs.
Somebody quick call the hotline! This is obviously an attempt by the government to indoctrinate young minds through the public school system.
Phil, it’s ok to indoctrinate kids for war and destruction. That’s not woke. It’s caveman, but not woke.
Just noodling around yesterday for where he has money stashed an interested party learned Mike Rounds has an interest in the Best Western in Madison as well as in several other hospitality properties.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/10/25/rounds-belongs-to-private-investment-club-that-owns-10-midwestern-hotels-disclosure-shows/
There’re kids at DSU learning stuff. Stuff few of us know. It’s the military’s job to catalog those student’s names, files, and general attitudes.
DSU s a perfect place to train military and CIA operatives. Students are not exposed to the realities of the world, to conflicting philosophies, and are much less likely to have formed any firm political philosophy…the empty slate.
Well said, Arlo. Another place like that is Utah. There are a myriad of LDS members working for the IRS and other security clearance jobs for the feds. LDS members are, as you said, not exposed to the realities of the world, to conflicting philosophies, and are much less likely to have formed any firm political philosophy…the empty slate.
I’m not a fan of the bloated military budget, but this seems like this a far better and more forward- looking expenditure of military appropriations than the Ellsworth AFB, which should be shuttered. We do need bright, young minds to work in this field. China and Russia have them, and they seem to be ahead of us.
What Donald said. (from my weekly China newsletter)
“More than a third of the Communist party’s 205-member Central Committee now have a background in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to a report by MacroPolo, the think-tank of the Paulson Institute in Chicago. That is a 35 per cent increase from the previous committee appointed five years before.” – Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian for Axios China
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-china-79d4f4e6-5a96-4dd1-8e99-e9ad3a22ef7e.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioschina&stream=china
Mr. Pay, if we play our cards right, we may be able to latch unto those Russian minds who have left loser Russia for a better place to market their knowledge skills. If we were to continue to play our cards right, maybe we could fund public schools to bring out more of our bright stars to let them shine. Gwaad, who am I kidding? there’s no immediate profit for Mike and John in that.
Hey, USD Springfield is a prison today, right?
Presentation took a bullet for Northern and BHSU is a neo-marxist enclave with a place called the Trump Conference Room. Is South Dakota a great state or what?
And friend of the blog and Enriched Fellow who sold out to The Man, my good friend Greyhound Bill has an alma-mater that is also a prison. Higher education, unless you are controlled by the woke Regents, is not a good place to be today.
Only the tip of the earmarks that South Dakota has accepted over the decades. Someone really should catalogue all of them and assess just what came of them in the longer term. (And academics are the worst people to do so as they know how to churn out reams of meaningless paper littered with “accomplishments” that effectively go nowhere. Just ask me.)
Contributory to student education? Yes to the unfortunate state that education has become in too many cases. Because China does iso so must we? Equally unfortunate.
On advice of counsel my statement above naming Mike Rounds as an investor in a Madison motel is hereby retracted.
It’s at best termed “technical training” and not “education.”