This is on top of the ten percent increase that occurred last fall. It has been exerting efforts to attract non-traditional students in its service area, as part of its regional mission. Since they are part-time they generate fewer credit hours, so the FTE calculation may actually decrease. Since Dakota State has more full-time students, generating more credit hours, its FTE calculation has increased. In summer 2000 DSU offered a distance technology academy, which was attended by far fewer elementary and secondary education personnel than the academies aimed at classroom teachers.
Objectives vary among students.
The public university system is here to assist people to meet those objectives, whether they are high school students in Aberdeen or classroom teachers in Bowdle. As they move through our system they affect our enrollment numbers differently. The important thing is that South Dakotans are seeking education. Headcount and FTE enrollment for the universities is provided below.