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SD Public Universities Hoping to Avoid Enrollment “Cliff”

SD Public Universities Hoping to Avoid Enrollment “Cliff”

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Higher education officials in neighboring states are warning of a possible cliff in higher education enrollments in the next decade.

South Dakota may avoid that. Board of Regents Executive Director Paul Beran says their projections show enrollment holding fairly steady over the next few years…

Beran says that is why the see the proposed “Dakotas Promise” scholarship as a critical issue…..

Beran says they are losing potential students due to the lack of a needs based scholarship…

Total enrollment at the six universities has fallen by about two thousand students from 2010 through 2019 to thirty-four thousand five hundred twenty.

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