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S D colleges see enrollment declines
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By Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch | 2:39 pm, Dec. 21, 2020 ×
School of Mines student Andrew Ward overcame a COVID-19 infection and a shift to some online classes during his fall semester, but is happy with how things are going on the path to an engineering degree. (Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch)
Colleges and universities across South Dakota were facing long-range financial, logistical and access challenges even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Enrollment was falling, state financial support for public universities was dropping, and rising tuition led to high loan burdens for many students and reduced access to obtaining a degree for some low-income and minority families.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has further lowered the ability of low-income and minority students in South Dakota, including Native Americans, to enroll in college, obtain a degree and gain the lifelong financial and upward mobility benefits that come with higher education.
Education experts in South Dakota and around the country are increasingly worried that the COVID-19 pandemic has further expanded the long-standing educational achievement gap in which higher-income and white students do significantly better on standardized tests and in gaining access to higher education than students from lower-income and minority families.
Katharine Stevens, a researcher with the American Enterprise Institute, called the pandemic âa catastrophe on top of a catastropheâ because learning losses, technology barriers and reduced access to education have been far greater among low-income and minority students at all age levels in America in 2020.
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.
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