Funding Inequities in Regents System

[LakeJack]

http://www.aberdeennews.com/news/aan...,7216126.story

2012 base funding levels per full time student

DSU - $11,112
SDSM&T - $10,789
NSU - $10,259
USD - $9,387
SDSU - $8,038
BHSU - $7,255

[Prairiehaas]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

Doesn't this really point to efficiency, or perhaps lack therof, in use of public funds? Perhaps the State of SD would do well to consider an increase in funding at BH, State and the U and a corresponding decrease at the three smaller schools. And no increase in tuition.

[goon]

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Shouldn't they all be the same no matter the school? Also I thought the bor was changing funding so schools receive more money according to enrollment. Or I thought there was talk about that.

[SturgisJeff]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

remember they are politicians so anything they do will not be done with common sense or logic.

[Prairiehaas]

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Sadly true.

[LakeJack]

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[Nidaros]

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I guess you have to be crunching numbers for the BOR to really understand whats going on here. I don't except, SDSU is underfunded but not as much as BHSU, Go JOEBOO22.

[goon]

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How about each school gets to keep the amount of tuition paid for each student it has? wouldnt that be the most fair way to do funding? your funding would be directly tied to the number of students.

[Prairiehaas]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

Programs could still be moved around to prop up the schools with lower enrollments. Thus increasing attendance and monies coming in to the schools. That might help explain the location of international business program and distance education offices to name a couple (no favor done to our friends along the Missouri).

The universities are seen as engines of economic development and rightly so. But, shouldn't the economic development be largely due to utilizing the output of the universities and less focused on the input of state monies and tuition paid by parents and students?

[filbert]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

DSU delenda est.

It's simply madness for a state the size of South Dakota to try to maintain two baccalaureate institutions which are less than forty miles by road from each other, especially when one of those is the state's largest university--which is also second to the last in per-student funding while the other takes up the most per-student resources of any institution in the system.

But it's also madness (i.e. political suicide) to consider closing Dakota State. It's too much a part of the Madison community. You don't want to kill Madison like Governor Janklow killed Springfield by closing Southern (as it was when my dad attended--USD-S when Janklow's axe fell).

DSU has been re-missioned before. Maybe it's time to consider doing it again.

What I would do straightaway is administratively merge DSU with SDSU. This has immediate (albeit modest) budget benefits--lowering overhead by merging DSU's and SDSU's administrative structures. Basically, you simply make DSU another College within SDSU's administrative structure.

Then over a course of say eight to ten years, transform DSU into the Regent's system's one designated residential two-year institution, with the specific mission of preparing students for the Regent's four-year institutions. DSU's four-year programs would gradually migrate to Brookings and to Sioux Falls. DSU's entrance requirements would be relaxed relative to any of the other BOR institutions, and its purpose would be nothing less than teaching students how to learn in the college environment.

The goal would be to increase the total enrollment of DSU, giving more South Dakotans access to the kind of higher education they could actually use to advance themselves in this increasingly technological world.

Parenthetically, you might also find a way to use DSU as a feeder/prep school for SDSU and USD's D-I athletic programs. Make DSU nationally competitive in junior college athletics.

That's what I'd do if I was King of the World.

[EQguy]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

This plan makes sense and even provides vision. In other words it has no chance of ever being close to implemented

[Hammersmith]

Re: Funding Inequities in Regents System

DSU delenda est.

It's simply madness for a state the size of South Dakota to try to maintain two baccalaureate institutions which are less than forty miles by road from each other, especially when one of those is the state's largest university--which is also second to the last in per-student funding while the other takes up the most per-student resources of any institution in the system.

But it's also madness (i.e. political suicide) to consider closing Dakota State. It's too much a part of the Madison community. You don't want to kill Madison like Governor Janklow killed Springfield by closing Southern (as it was when my dad attended--USD-S when Janklow's axe fell).

DSU has been re-missioned before. Maybe it's time to consider doing it again.

What I would do straightaway is administratively merge DSU with SDSU. This has immediate (albeit modest) budget benefits--lowering overhead by merging DSU's and SDSU's administrative structures. Basically, you simply make DSU another College within SDSU's administrative structure.

Then over a course of say eight to ten years, transform DSU into the Regent's system's one designated residential two-year institution, with the specific mission of preparing students for the Regent's four-year institutions. DSU's four-year programs would gradually migrate to Brookings and to Sioux Falls. DSU's entrance requirements would be relaxed relative to any of the other BOR institutions, and its purpose would be nothing less than teaching students how to learn in the college environment.

The goal would be to increase the total enrollment of DSU, giving more South Dakotans access to the kind of higher education they could actually use to advance themselves in this increasingly technological world.

Parenthetically, you might also find a way to use DSU as a feeder/prep school for SDSU and USD's D-I athletic programs. Make DSU nationally competitive in junior college athletics.

That's what I'd do if I was King of the World.

We think alike. That's almost exactly what I've been thinking for two of our ND colleges. Valley City State(4yr - 60mi from Fargo) and either Dickinson State(4yr) or Bismarck State(2yr tech - trying to become 4yr). Do you think SD would like to take a couple 4yr schools off our hands? We only have 6, with 2 more trying to make the jump.

[el_presidente]

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The Argus Leader is doing a live interview/chat with the Board of Regents at 2:00. I hope lots of SDSU Fans log on and ask polite yet necessary questions!

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2...nclick_check=1