Given its current preformance, I have trouble enthusing about anything the South Dakota Legislature proposes. The first amendment on our 2016 ballot, Amendment R, is…
Tag: Board of Regents
Last fall, the Board of Regents considered pushing for alcohol sales on campus. Only SDSU expressed great enthusiasm; the other campuses’ reactions ranged from cautious interest…
Black Hills State University may be ditching its fine arts and humanities requirement for all students, but it is giving the art majors a boost. At…
The South Dakota Board of Regents heard a bad-news/good-news report on student debt at their meeting this week in Spearfish. The bad news: Average per-student debt has climbed…
Item 5-S on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda this afternoon makes me think someone at Black Hills State University has been sitting too close to…
Keeping DSU green comes at a price. Last month, Dakota State University President José-Marie Griffiths announced that the university would build its new IT building on…
Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
The Board of Regents heard a proposal this week from South Dakota State University to charge every student a food facility fee. Let’s call it the…
AAN’s Katherine Grandstrand* notices among the agenda items for the Board of Regents meeting here in Aberdeen today a discussion of proposed legislation for 2016.…