Board of Regents Policy 1:21

http://www.sdbor.edu/policy/1-Governance/index.htm

1. Educational Attainment

• Continuously improve preparation and align high school standards with college-ready expectations.
• Increase college participation rates.
• Improve completions, i.e. increase retention rates, increase the number of graduates by at least 411 each year, and close achievement gaps.
• Keep our graduates in state.

2. Academic Quality & Performance

• Review academic degree programs for quality, responsiveness, and productivity
• Promote high standards for student learning, quality instruction, and research.
• Encourage student engagement in research and service.
• Create employer feedback mechanisms.
• Expand use of technology to enhance learning.

3. Economic Development & Quality of Life

• Promote growth of research initiatives.
• Expand graduate education.
• Contribute to economic development through technology transfer & incubation of new commercial ventures.
• Contribute to workforce development & quality of life by expanding academic programs to meet our future workforce needs, offering off-campus and online programs, and creating corporate training partnerships.
• Encourage entrepreneurship.

4. Effectiveness & Efficiency

• Monitor and benchmark cost/price per graduate.
• Monitor and benchmark financial indicators.
• Review under-productive programs for improvements, consolidation, or elimination.
• Streamline administrative and academic organizational structures.
• Review facilities and space utilization.
• Keep the system affordable.
• Tuition and fees.
• Required credits to degree
• Need-based and merit aid
• Average debt load

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