South Dakota universities are working on plans to address falling enrollments and provide opportunities to potential students.

USD President Sheila Gestring says they are asking lawmakers to help fund a needs based scholarship program…

Gestring says there is a lot of potential with that type of scholarship…..
The Regents have proposed a fifty – fifty funding match with the state.

Grestring says they are also seeing results with the new program offering instate tuition to out of state students…

Gestring was officially inaugurated last week as the 18th President at USD.