MADISON, South Dakota, June 1 (TNSpar) -- Dakota State University issued the following news: The Dakota State University Athletics Department is entering a partnership with BSN SPORTS and NIKE. Through this partnership, BSN SPORTS will serve as the official apparel and equipment provider to the Dakota State University Athletics program while outfitting the university's athletes, coaches, and community members in premier Nike products. "Through this agreement between Dakota State University,   more

MITCHELL, South Dakota, May 31 (TNSper) -- Dakota Wesleyan University issued the following news: Dakota Wesleyan University announced recently that former Director of Residence Life Dustin Wheeler has been named the new Dean of Students. Wheeler has been employed at the university since 2019. Wheeler's career has mostly been spent in education. He taught middle school social studies in Yankton and Mitchell before joining Innovative Systems for four years. In 2019 he was hired as a TRIO student  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 1 (TNSres) -- The South Dakota Department of Education issued the following news release: Information regarding school districts' performance on improving the educational outcomes of students with disabilities is now available online. The Special Education Report is released annually by June 1. The report addresses the federal requirement of special education programs, known as Part B, to report on the performance of each local school district, based on the State Per  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 1 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Governor Kristi Noem and 17 of her fellow Republican governors sent a letter to President Biden and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson opposing the mandated changes to the loan level pricing adjustment (LLPA). You can read the letter here. "In short, the new LLPA framework will inevitably increase mortgage costs for lower-risk individuals and handicap those borrowers with l  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 2 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on June 1, 2023: Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will be deploying at least 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border later this summer. Governor Noem joins a group of 12 other Republican governors who are answering the call from Texas Governor Greg Abbott to help Texas respond to the crisis at the southern border. "The border crisis is growing worse under President Bi  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, June 2 (TNSper) -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Governor Krisi Noem announced that Chris Schilken will be the new Commissioner of the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED). "Freedom-loving folks from all over the country are moving to South Dakota. It's the job of my Office of Economic Development to keep our communities growing so that we are ready to welcome new South Dakotans, while continuing to care for our existing   more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, May 31 (TNSfund) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: Nicholas Butzin, assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Biology and Microbiology, has been awarded a five-year, $1.3 million grant through the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program. The NSF CAREER award, one of NSF's most prestigious awards, supports early-career faculty members "who have the potential to serve as academic role mod  more