The State of Public Higher Education - 1998
State Policy Goal 6
Collaboration: The universities will work
collaboratively to carry out their teaching, service, and research missions.
Maximizing the state’s investment in educational
institutions, South Dakota’s public universities have developed numerous academic and
student services partnerships. The following are examples of these partnerships as well as
steps taken to strengthen and maintain the partnerships.
- Developed inter-instructional programs- Majors in
French, German, and physics offered in multi campus partnerships through technology.
- Created an off-campus council- Coordination of classes
increases off-campus educational offerings.
- Established system discipline councils- Coordination of
delivery of similar programs and enhancement of similar programs and enhance the
discipline resource utilization in education, sciences, foreign languages, and business.
- Built six Governor’s Electronic Classrooms-
Cooperation in the design of state of the art classrooms, with funds from the Governor,
now used to share courses among the universities.
- Sioux Falls Center for Public Higher Education- Dakota
State University, South Dakota State University, and the University of South Dakota
collaborate to rotate course delivery to avoid unnecessary duplication or competition and
to ensure efficient and effective allocation of resources.
Through another incentive fund universities are rewarded
for sharing faculty and facilities in their instruction and for enrolling South Dakota
high school students. This is done by transmitting a course from one university to
another, hosting a course from another university on campus, or jointly teaching a course
in Sioux Falls.
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