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What
is the South Dakota Board of Regents' system?
The South Dakota Board
of Regents' system is made up of eight institutions, including six
public universities and two schools serving special K-12 populations:
the deaf and the blind/visually impaired.
The first Board of Regents
in present-day South Dakota was created in 1862 for the territorial
university in Vermillion. A second and separate board was named
in 1881 for the College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts at Brookings.
There were separate boards for the state normal schools at Madison,
Spearfish, and Springfield, and the School of Mines in Rapid City.
These boards worked with groups of trustees, one for each institution.
A single board of regents
for all state institutions of higher education was organized by
the 1890 South Dakota Legislature. The present form of constitutional
governance first became effective in 1897.
South
Dakota's Unified System of Higher Education
Institutions
Governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents
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