South Dakota is making it harder for folks to get a college education. At their meeting in Brookings this week, the Board of Regents will hear a report comparing our state university tuition and fee increases with the increases in…
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The South Dakota Board of Regents rounds out its Wednesday afternoon agenda with discussion of its proposed "performance funding model." In a way, the performance funding model is merit pay... not for individuals, but for entire campuses. The short version:…
The South Dakota Board of Regents boasts that South Dakota has reversed "brain drain." This new Regents' study on net migration of new high school grads finds that while 1,564 of South Dakota's 9,142 2008 HS graduates (17%) went out…
I have some sympathy for Governor Daugaard's argument that more students should consider vocational training instead of a four-year college degree. I've seen a number of students leave high school and go straight to college as it if they were…
The December Board of Regents meeting (beginning tonight in Rapid City with dinner and executive session on personnel matters) includes a panel discussion Thursday afternoon on student debt and financial aid. The panel's agenda summary provides some insight on student…
Mr. Mercer notes (linklessly, alas) on the South Dakota Board of Regents' Academic Freedom Report. This annual report fulfills a non-statutory requirement that the Regents annually detail "the steps that each of our universities is taking to ensure intellectual diversity…
Another crowded tab bar, another call to clear the queue! Here's an education potpourri for your Friday: Save Groton Debate! The Groton High School debate program faces the budget axe. Groton debater Michaela Oleson qualified for Nationals in Student Congress…
I noted last week that my current employer, the South Dakota Board of Regents, is projected to receive $54 million more in federal funding in the coming budget year. Under that headline, one may also note that Governor Rounds's otherwise…