The Student Federation, representing elected student governments from all of South Dakota's public universities, is seeing some success for the bills for which it lobbied during Higher Education Days last week. Senate Bill 91, funding for the Regental needs-based scholarship,…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard offers a little good news for a minority of South Dakota college students but bad news for all Regental students. In the small good news, Governor Daugaard is willing to spend $1.274 million to increase the Opportunity…
Why is South Dakota beating Minnesota on freshman import-export ratio? One logical explanation is price. According to the FY2014 Accountability Report to the Council on Higher Education Policy Goals, Performance, and Accountability that the Board of Regents will discuss at…
At next week's meeting on the School of Mines campus, South Dakota's Regents will discuss allowing our six public universities to fund scholarships with tuition remission and late-payment fees. The information sheet accompanying that agenda item itemizes the current sources…
In our continuing treatment of students as commodities, let's look at South Dakota's import-export ratio for college freshmen. According to a report on the Board of Regents' agenda next week, we're actually in the black: South Dakota may be shifting…
Bob Mercer does us the favor of pointing out the individuals nominated to dig up good candidates to run Dakota State University. The folks recruited from outside the Regental system demonstrate the South Dakota view that the primary purpose of…
EB-5 czar Joop Bollen's response to the Government Operations and Audit Committee's inquiry into his activities on behalf of the State of South Dakota is rich with innuendo, insult, and absurdity. The greatest absurdity packed into his literary fabrication is…
Bob Mercer agrees that the EB-5 scandal is far from over. Next Thursday the Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee meets to discuss what went wrong in then-Governor, now Senator-Elect Mike Rounds's EB-5 visa investment program. GOAC chairman Senator Larry…