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Colleges part 3: Students cross hurdles while learning during a pandemic
As part of its in-depth look at the state of higher education in the state, South Dakota News Watch made contact with students who experienced learning during a pandemic close up.
Here are three of their stories.
Making frugal financial choices
Sydney Becker, 19, is a graduate of Lincoln High
Colleges part 2: Pandemic puts college degree out of reach for more South Dakotans
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
Colleges at a crossroads: Pandemic creates new challenges and highlights historic concerns
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
How one Native American tribe in SD created its own wireless education network
Editor’s note: This article was produced through a partnership between South Dakota News Watch and the Solutions Journalism Network, a national non-profit group that supports rigorous journalism about responses to problems. This is the final segment of a two-part look at the education of Native American children in South
Pandemic brings new challenges to education system on Native American reservations in SD
Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts of a look at the status of Native American education in South Dakota amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2, coming Oct. 7, will examine one school district’s successful efforts to build an online education network.
The COVID-19 pandemic has
Many SD teachers on their own when adding safety barriers in classrooms
South Dakota public school teachers are largely on their own when it comes to building and installing protective barriers for their classrooms that may reduce the spread of the coronavirus among their students and themselves.
With no statewide policy in place, and little or no guidance from individual school districts,
COVID-19 outbreak infects students at Northern State University in Aberdeen
Eight students of Northern State University in Aberdeen and a youth who attended a recent athletic camp on the NSU campus have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a university spokesperson.
The university is working closely with the state Department of Health to undergo contact tracing of those with confirmed