Download or read book South Dakota Board of Regents Fact Book Fiscal Year 2006 written by South Dakota State Board of Regents, Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional occupations will account for more than half the total U.S. job growth in the years to come, and talent is the principal resource that underpins this new economy. Creative individuals who can develop new ideas and new applications of existing knowledge are the entrepreneurs who will ensure future economic well-being. Education is the foundation upon which this community of South Dakota's future citizens will be built. The task ahead will fall largely on public education. The public education system is not just K-12 schools but includes as an integral part the public universities. In South Dakota, the Board of Regents is fortunate to have a strong partnership with the state's elementary and secondary education system. South Dakota's residents must continue to work hand in hand--pre-K-12 and with higher education--to develop a highly-educated workforce. One of the most important ways is to make sure young people strengthen their academic preparation, especially in math and science. This is one of the objectives of the South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship. The scholarship's second objective is to retain this talent in state for their postsecondary education. Higher-achieving young people who stay in South Dakota will offer a talent pool to compete with any in the world. Building a research-oriented faculty is a major change for South Dakota. The more than doubling of federal funding support for grants in recent years indicates the quality of the work that can be done in South Dakota. New Ph.D. programs, targeted research centers, graduate assistantships, and individual faculty research grants all work toward building a more robust research infrastructure for South Dakota. This will ensure that Governor Rounds' 2010 Initiative goal of developing the state as a research and technology leader is met. To gauge progress across the public higher education system, this "Fact Book Fiscal Year 2006" provides the single best source of information and data from the South Dakota Board of Regents. (Contains 56 tables and 21 graphs.).
Download or read book South Dakota Board of Regents Fact Book written by South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public-sector higher education plays a critical role within the larger environment of higher education opportunity. Public universities are not the sole players in meeting necessary state outcomes, but they are by far the largest producers of higher education outcomes in South Dakota. This Fact Book, for Fiscal Year 2007, is the single best source of information and data from the South Dakota Board of Regents. It documents the many efforts under way to achieve the four statewide postsecondary education goals of access, quality, state wealth, and efficiency in the delivery of educational services. This Fact Book provides data on: (1)enrollments, high school preparation, and degrees conferred; (2) expenditures from grants and contracts; (3) tuition fees and student financial aid; (4) financial resources and operating budgets; (5) faculty characteristics and salary; (6) special schools; (7) facilities and equipment; (8) South Dakota opportunities and research infrastructure; (9) minimum admissions requirements; (10) missions of the universities and special schools; (11) and educational attainment and rank among states. The Fact Book also includes a message from the South Dakota Board of Regents, a map of universities and special schools, and Board member biographies.
Download or read book South Dakota Board of Regents Fact Book Fiscal Year 2005 written by South Dakota Board of Regents, Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are demanding, yet exciting, times for public higher education in South Dakota. Challenges are many-how best to deliver educational services in view of demographic shifts in South Dakota's population base, limited state resources, and far-reaching economic changes both nationally and internationally. The South Dakota Board of Regents is actively engaged in far-reaching discussions with policymakers and the public. The regents' 2003 report, "Opportunities for South Dakota," initially put focus to these discussions. Then in 2004, Gov. Mike Rounds launched his 2010 Education Initiative, a series of specific goals and action plans intended to improve the state's education system by the year 2010. The governor's initiative creates the roadmap for the future. In that future, Gov. Rounds sees a South Dakota education system "second to none in America--brimming with opportunity and innovative entrepreneurial thinking." From the regents' statewide conversations about issues and opportunities, four policy goals for the Board of Regents' system became evident: (1) Access--Every qualified South Dakotan shall have access to public postsecondary education; (2) Quality--South Dakota public universities and special schools shall provide a quality educational experience; (3) State Wealth--South Dakota public universities shall engage in activities designed to enhance the state's long-term economy; and (4) Efficiencies--South Dakota public universities and special schools shall continue to seek means for improving efficiency in the delivery of educational services. To gauge the progress, this "Fact Book Fiscal Year 2005 provides the single best source of information and data from the South Dakota Board of Regents' system. (Contains 51 tables and 18 graphs.).
Download or read book Policy and Performance in American Higher Education written by Richard Richardson Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy and Performance in American Higher Education presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy. Public institutions of higher learning are called upon by state governments to provide educational access and opportunity for students. Paradoxically, the education policies enacted by state legislatures are often complex and costly to implement, which can ultimately detract from that mission. Richard Richardson, Jr., and Mario Martinez evaluate the higher education systems of five states to explain how these policies are developed and how they affect the performance of individual institutions. The authors compare the higher education systems of New Mexico, California, South Dakota, New York, and New Jersey and describe the difficulty of enforcing state policies amid increasing demands for greater efficiency and accountability. In the process they identify the "rules in use"—rules that are central to the coherence and performance of higher education systems—that administrators apply to meet organizational goals within the constraints of changing, sometimes conflicting federal and state policies. Incorporating rich data from seven years of observations, interviews, and research, Richardson and Martinez offer a clear comparative framework for understanding state higher education.
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Download or read book Report of the South Dakota Board of Regents System Retention Task Force written by South Dakota Board of Regents. System Retention Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Dakota Board of Regents written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the South Dakota Board of Regents, the Pierre-based constitutional governing board for the six state universities. Lists and links to home pages for South Dakota's state universities. Profiles the members of the Board and includes a staff directory, meeting schedules and agendas, publications, and summaries of the Board's priority issues. Provides access to state government, higher education, K-12, and state economic development resources on the WWW.
Download or read book South Dakota Board of Regents written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic importance of higher education, Regental policies and South Dakota data and accountability.
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Download or read book Agreement Between South Dakota Board of Regents and Council of Higher Education an Affiliate of the South Dakota Education Association and the National Education Association written by South Dakota Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Financial Aid for the Disabled and Their Families 2004 2006 written by Gail A. Schlachter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of dollars in financial aid have been set aside for America's largest minority: the 49 million Americans with disabilities and members of their families. In fact, more money is available today than ever before. FINANCIAL AID FOR THE DISABLED AND THEIR FAMILIES is the only publication that can put information about these funds at your finger tips. More than 1,100 funding opportunities are described in detail here. This funding is open to applicants at any level for study, research, training, travel, career development, emergencies, assistive technology, specially-adapted housing, and many other purposes. This directory was chosen as one of the best reference books of the year by Library Journal.
Download or read book Mismatch written by Richard Sander and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
