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HB 1020: Pay $65K for Board of Regents Indian Outreach Coordinator

The Board of Regents has delivered one plank of its American Indian outreach initiative to the Legislature. House Bill 1020 would authorize the Regents to hire a new full-time Indian education and outreach coordinator for its central office. A task…

NSU President Says Bollen Walked Off with State’s EB-5 Files

Northern State University has been raising some challenges to accessing records relating to the state's EB-5 program, which operated on the NSU campus under the banner of the South Dakota International Business Institute until the end of 2009. But in…

Regents Work on Boosting American Indian Enrollment in Universities

Want to know why South Dakota needs to do more to help American Indian students get into our public universities? Consider this table (click to enlarge) on the percentages of Native students from the high schools with the most Native…

Board of Regents Ran SDIBI/EB-5 on Fire-and-Forget Mode

A fellow researcher asked the South Dakota Board of Regents for documents relating to the creation of the South Dakota International Business Institute, the entity that ran South Dakota's suspect EB-5 program as an administrative unit of Northern State University…

Meet Workforce Needs with Good Wages

My Vulcan friend Jim Sheehan reads the December 5 press release from the Board of Regents and finds it illogical: ...[T]he South Dakota Board of Regents... predicts a shortage of home grown college graduates to meet a projected demand from…

SDSU Expects Students to Pay for Football Stadium They Won’t Use

The Board of Regents meets this week in Rapid City to discuss, among other things, approving a $65-million football stadium for South Dakota State University. According to the Regents' agenda packet, two thirds of the construction costs are for enclosed…