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USD @ Sioux Falls Goes in front of Interim Appropriations Committee

USD @ Sioux Falls Goes in front of Interim Appropriations Committee

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The South Dakota Board of Regents approved changes to their facilities in Sioux Falls, creating USD at Sioux Falls, with a new mission and classes.

Jay Perry, the USD vice president who heads up the Sioux Falls campus was in front of the interim Appropriations Committee of the Legislature. He says they are seeing noticeable progress…..https://on.soundcloud.com/7LnSG

Perry says they have made rapid changes in a short time…https://on.soundcloud.com/9SMFU

Perry says many of their numbers are trending in the right direction…..https://on.soundcloud.com/BMd5W

Perry says they also see a seventeen percent increase in the number of potential students graduating from area high schools over the next few years.

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