In more Legislative fluffery, Representative Hugh Bartels offers House Bill 1083, 55 sections of find-and-replace to change the official name of our four public vo-tech…
Tag: higher education
If you think I like to poke the bear, check in with Senator Ryan Maher (R-28/Isabel), who plans to propose a bill to consolidate administration…
Speaking of Northern and its need to boost revenues, NSU President Timothy Downs is recommending offering more summer classes: In Aberdeen, Northern is looking at…
For refreshing reminder of why we really want more people to seek higher education, let’s turn to the President’s Commission on Higher Education—President Harry S…
I like engineering. I like the School of Mines. I like that South Dakota has a top-flight engineering school where really smart people learn to…
Fewer people are going to public university in South Dakota. According to the Board of Regents, all six of our public campi have fewer students…
Are young Americans finally ready to fulfill our hopes for civic engagement and take elections seriously? A new report from the Tufts Institute for Democracy…
Trinity College political science Professor Isaac Kamola explains that outrage over liberal academics is mostly manufactured by well-coordinated attacks groups funded by “a small handful…
Board of Regents president Kevin Schieffer has made clear that, contrary to the contrived whinings of certain Republican legislators and their out-of-state influencers, there is…
Prepared before Cattlemen’s chief Steve Ollerich’s anti-trans rant and apology was this Best Colleges report on Campus Pride’s rating of South Dakota State University’s LGBTQ-friendliness:…