Low pay-schmo pay! Teachers love working in South Dakota! So contends Board of Regents chief Jack Warner in today's Sioux Falls paper. Compared to a national five-year new teacher attrition rate of 40% to 50%, almost three quarters of South…
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The South Dakota Board of Regents is struggling with how to deal with ambitious home-schooled students who accelerate through high school and want to start university early. Apparently under current policy, South Dakota's public universities are denying these precocious home-schoolers…
I'm not sure Bob Mercer is fully recovered from his recent stay in the hospital. He declares that Kevin Schieffer, the latest GOP crony appointed to the South Dakota Board of Regents, "brings perhaps the widest experience of the nine…
Mr. Mercer points out an important problem with our system of "university centers," the three facilities created to serve major populations removed from our actual university locations. He notes that to keep these classrooms in Sioux Falls, Pierre, and Rapid…
The South Dakota Board of Regents wants to make it easier to pay in-state tuition... or maybe just reduce its paperwork. House Bill 1012 makes three main changes in determining who qualifies for the lower rate. First, HB 1012 erases…
Well, that's peculiar: after averring repeatedly that interim Dakota State University president David B. Borofsky was not a candidate for the permanent leadership position, the Board of Regents held a special meeting today to give Borofsky the permanent appointment. Let's…
South Dakota high school students as a group consistently post better-than-average standardized test scores. But, like the Governor who appoints them, the members of the South Dakota Board of Regents aren't satisfied with those increasing scores. At their Vermillion meeting…
Last week I mentioned South Dakota's relatively high public university tuition increases. That post prompted a note from a friend in higher education on how one small portion of that money is spent: on the man at the top. According…