South Dakota State University announces $740,000 in fiscal year 2011 budget cuts

BROOKINGS, S.D. — South Dakota State University has identified $739,799 in budget cuts in response to a reduction in state appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011.

The proposed cuts were reviewed today by the South Dakota Board of Regents at its meeting in Vermillion.

About 50 percent of the cuts at South Dakota State will come from administration and about 50 percent from academic programs, as outlined at an April 26 campus-wide meeting.

President David Chicoine, in a campus-wide message Thursday, emphasized to faculty and staff that “everything possible will be done to assure the very best educational experiences continue to be provided for students at our university” as the university manages through the state funding reduction in the upcoming fiscal year.

The cuts reviewed by the regents are in narrative form on the Board of Regents Web site at http://www.sdbor.edu/board/items/BoardMeetingItems.htm . The regents also reviewed $300,000 in cuts within the Agricultural Experiment Station and $200,000 in cuts within the Cooperative Extension Service, both statewide programs administered by the university.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1881, South Dakota State University is the state’s Morrill Act land-grant institution as well as its largest, most comprehensive school of higher education. SDSU confers degrees from seven different colleges representing more than 200 majors, minors and options. The institution also offers 23 master’s degree programs and 12 Ph.D. programs.

The work of the university is carried out on a residential campus in Brookings, at sites in Sioux Falls, Pierre and Rapid City, and through Cooperative Extension offices and Agricultural Experiment Station research sites across the state.

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