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Colleges and universities across South Dakota were facing long-range challenges before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Enrollment was falling, state financial support was dropping, and rising tuition led to high loan burdens for many students and reduced access for some low-income and minority families.
The pandemic has exacerbated those trends and has put higher education in America and South Dakota at a crossroads â presaging a time when fundamental decisions must be made about how higher education is delivered and consumed, how it is paid for, and who is able to attend.
On the health front, university and college leaders across South Dakota are declaring the fall 2020 semester a victory, as in-person classes were held and relatively few students, faculty or staff became infected with the coronavirus.
Covid-19: The mask-wearing US city that bucked the trend
By Jake Horton, Jack Goodman & William Dahlgreen
BBC Reality Check & Data Journalism
Published
image captionThe South Dakota governor is against mask mandates but some cities have introduced their own
President-elect Joe Biden has said one of his first actions in office will be to call on all Americans to wear a mask, or face-covering.
More than half of US states currently have a mask mandate in place to limit the spread of coronavirus, but the issue has become highly controversial.
We ve taken a closer look at one mask-wearing US city, which has diverged from the state-wide policy.