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BY CAPITAL JOURNAL STAFF NEWS@CAPJOURNAL.COM The Capital Journal was one of five Wick Communications newspapers to earn a top honor in a recent editorial awards contest. The Capital Journal earned a first-place award in the feature/ sports category for its coverage of former Gov. Bill Janklow the day after his passing. In the months leading up to Janklow’s passing, Justin Joiner, Capital Journal assistant managing editor, interviewed Janklow’s friends, colleagues and others to paint a picture of a man who loomed large in the state. The story ran the day after Janklow’s death. Contest judges high- lighted the piece for its unique take on the cov- erage. The piece used verbatim interviews rather than a mix of quota- tions and paraphrasing. It made for a more personal look at Janklow’s life. The Capital Journal also earned a third- place award for cover- age following a spring blizzard earlier this year and an honorable mention for its cover- age of the motivations and lives of immi- grants who have made South Dakota home in recent years. These awards come after the newspaper earlier this year won four first-place awards and 11 awards total during the South Dakota Newspaper Association’s 131st convention and scored eight first-place wins, 15 awards total, in the 2013 Great Plains Associated Press News and Photo Contest. There were five categories in the Wick contest, including enterprise, breaking news, best feature or sports story, edito- rial comment and community pride. Judges awarded first, sec- ond, third and honorable men- tion prizes. Eighteen newspa- pers submitted entries, which were judged by Wick Editorial Director Clay Lambert and Wick Group Manager David Lewis. For more information on the contest and other winners, visit wickawards.wordpress.com. The voice of central South Dakota since 1881 Monday, August 12, 2013 www.capjournal.com Volume 132, Issue No. 157 75¢ C NO MOTOR One more biker heading east A3 KIDS VENTURE Hundreds of kids and adults turned out for the second annual event Saturday A2 Area News A2-A3 Opinion A4 Region A5 Comics A6 Entertainment A7 Sports B1-B2 Classifieds B3-B6 To reach us, call 224-7301 or e-mail us at [email protected] Twitter.com/capitaljournal Facebook.com/capitaljournal BY BOB MERCER STATE CAPITOL BUREAU Enrollments at South Dakota’s public universities rose in recent years because more people took off-campus courses, while the numbers of students physically attend- ing classes declined system- wide in 2011 and again in 2012, according to a new report pre- pared for the state Board of Regents. The regents, who govern the state’s higher education sys- tem, plan to discuss the enroll- ment trends Wednesday and Thursday when they meet in Sioux Falls for their annual planning retreat. The report was prepared by the regents’ central office. It is the first deep look at the numbers behind the record enroll- ments that have been reported for the system in recent years. The data show a 42 percent increase since 2007 in stu- dents seeking degrees via off- campus courses and a 44 per- cent gain in other students who took off-campus cours- es without specific degrees as their targets. Off-campus courses can be on- line or at another location such as the university centers in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Pierre. During the same six-year period, on- campus enrollments in total went up just 2 percent. The only significant gain in on-campus stu- dents came at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, which climbed more than 16 percent to 2,365 students in 2012. The 2012 enrollments at three campuses – Black Hills State 2,445; Northern State 1,894; and South Dakota State 9,777 – were at the lowest since 2009. The University of South Dakota at 6,116 last year was below where it stood in 2007, while Dakota State 1,277 was up slightly. Meanwhile off-campus courses intensified in popular- ity each of the six years in the analysis, reaching records in 2012 of 6,474 degree-seeking students and 6,081 non-degree seeking. Jack Warner, the regents’ executive director, said the off- campus growth is a mixture of adults who don’t or can’t make the trips to traditional cam- puses and students who are on campuses but take on-line courses so they don’t have to go to classes at specific times. “What this means is there are implications for how we invest our resources,” Warner said in an interview Friday. On one hand are traditional considerations such as resi- dence halls, dining facilities and other student amenities on campuses. On the other hand are tech- nology issues such as suf- ficient bandwidth to handle streaming video and large data batches, computing power, State universities face enrollment challenges Online classes soar and student-mix shifts “What this means is there are implications for how we invest our resources,” Jack Warner, the regents’ executive director See COLLEGE, A8 Justin Joiner BY ALLISON JARRELL ALLISON.JARRELL@CAPJOURNAL.COM This school year, the Capital University Center will not only be offering new classes and degree options, but also additional ways to help pay for them. The university center, located in Pierre, serves students in central South Dakota as part of the sys- tem governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents. Students can earn degrees from institutes such as Northern State University, South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota. Director Ron Woodburn refers to the center as central South Dakota’s “portal into the higher education system.” “We’re out here in the middle where people still need education,” said academic program coordinator Laura Hayden-Moreland. “People can continue their education even if they happen to move around.” Fall classes begin on Aug. 26, and the newest class to be added to the roster is American Sign Language, taught by Nancy Schlichenmayer, a Northern State University instructor. Hayden-Moreland said this is the first time the center has been able to offer a face-to-face sign language course, and she hopes there is interest in the community to learn about it. “It’s a great opportunity, but we’re not sure who our audience is yet,” she said. Come spring time, the center will also offer degree completion courses through the University of South Dakota, as well as hybrid courses consist- ing of face-to-face class time and online instruc- tion. “Online classes expand your ability to study things that we aren’t able to offer here,” Woodburn said. “Students have a lot of flexibility with online classes, and if they are disciplined and dedicated to it, online classes are a really good option.” And to help more students afford their class offerings, the center now offers state employee reduced tuition, approved by the Board of Regents For more information For more information on the Capital University Center, visit cucpierre.org/ or call 605-773-2160. Capital University Center offers new financial, academic opportunities Forget your two-stroke and your four-stroke engines. Scott Mestrezat has done the math and figures his engine – that’s Mestrezat himself with a paddle in his hands – will need about a million strokes to travel from the Missouri River headwaters in Montana to the place where the Big Muddy enters the Mississippi. With a waterproof video camera mounted sometimes on his paddle, sometimes at the front end of his board, the Michigan native is travel- ing down the Missouri River on a stand-up paddleboard and document- ing his journey with video and still photographs. “I’m making a documentary about it,” he said. “I’ve been very interested in photography for the last cou- ple of years, so this was a great chance to shoot a lot of photos.” Mestrezat, who began his journey to St. Louis at Three Forks, Mont., overnighted in Pierre on Saturday and continued his jour- ney from the Oahe Downstream area on Sunday. It was day 64 of what he estimates will be a 2,300-mile jour- ney. He’s hoping to finish in about 100 days; and he hopes the worst may be already behind him. “Oahe was just brutal,” said Mestrezat. “It’s a long lake. It was probably the most difficult part of the trip, actually. The last 150 miles of Oahe is just kind of a blur.” Mestrezat, 27, has been living in Chicago for the past few years, first paddled a stand-up paddleboard on Capital Journal earns award for Janklow coverage Paddleboarder makes his way from Montana to Missouri See CUC, A8 DIFFERENT STROKES BY LANCE NIXON LANCE.NIXON@CAPJOURNAL.COM Above: Scott Mes- trezat packs about 80 pounds of gear on his stand-up paddle- board. Left: A waterproof video camera that clips to his paddle or to the front of the board helps Scott Mestrezat document his journey down the Missouri River. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal) Want more? Find out more about Scott Mestrezat’s Missouri River adventure at www. MissouriRiverSUP. com or find him on Facebook by searching for Missouri River SUP adventure. 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BY CAPITAL JOURNAL [email protected]
The Capital Journal was one of five Wick Communications newspapers to earn a top honor in a recent editorial awards contest.
The Capital Journal earned a first-place award in the feature/sports category for its coverage of former Gov. Bill Janklow the day after his passing. In the months leading up to Janklow’s
passing, Justin Joiner, Capital Journal assistant managing editor, interviewed Janklow’s friends, colleagues and others to paint a picture of a man who loomed large in the state. The story ran the day after Janklow’s death.
Contest judges high-lighted the piece for its unique take on the cov-erage. The piece used verbatim interviews
rather than a mix of quota-tions and paraphrasing. It made for a more personal look
at Janklow’s life.The Capital Journal
also earned a third-place award for cover-age following a spring blizzard earlier this year and an honorable mention for its cover-age of the motivations and lives of immi-grants who have made
South Dakota home in recent years.
These awards come after the newspaper earlier this year won four first-place awards and 11 awards total during the South Dakota Newspaper Association’s 131st convention and scored eight first-place wins, 15 awards total, in the 2013 Great Plains Associated Press News and Photo Contest.
There were five categories in the Wick contest, including
enterprise, breaking news, best feature or sports story, edito-rial comment and community pride. Judges awarded first, sec-ond, third and honorable men-tion prizes. Eighteen newspa-pers submitted entries, which were judged by Wick Editorial Director Clay Lambert and Wick Group Manager David Lewis.
For more information on the contest and other winners, visit wickawards.wordpress.com.
The voice of central South Dakota since 1881
Monday, August 12, 2013 www.capjournal.com Volume 132, Issue No. 157 75¢C
NO MOTOROne more biker heading east A3
KIDS VENTUREHundreds of kids and adults
turned out for the second annual event Saturday A2
Area News A2-A3 Opinion A4 Region A5 Comics A6 Entertainment A7 Sports B1-B2 Classi� eds B3-B6
To reach us, call 224-7301 or e-mail us at [email protected] Twitter.com/capitaljournalFacebook.com/capitaljournal
BY BOB MERCERSTATE CAPITOL BUREAU
Enrollments at South Dakota’s public universities rose in recent years because more people took off-campus courses, while the numbers of students physically attend-ing classes declined system-wide in 2011 and again in 2012, according to a new report pre-pared for the state Board of Regents.
The regents, who govern the state’s higher education sys-tem, plan to discuss the enroll-
ment trends Wednesday and Thursday when they meet in Sioux Falls for their annual planning retreat.
The report was prepared by the regents’ central office. It is the first deep look at the numbers behind the record enroll-ments that have been reported for the system in recent years.
The data show a 42 percent increase since 2007 in stu-dents seeking degrees via off-campus courses and a 44 per-cent gain in other students
who took off-campus cours-es without specific degrees as their targets. Off-campus
courses can be on-line or at another location such as the university centers in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Pierre.
During the same six-year period, on-campus enrollments in total went up just 2 percent. The only significant gain in on-campus stu-dents came at South Dakota School of
Mines and Technology, which climbed more than 16 percent to 2,365 students in 2012.
The 2012 enrollments at three campuses – Black Hills State 2,445; Northern State 1,894; and South Dakota State 9,777 – were at the lowest since 2009. The University of South Dakota at 6,116 last year was below where it stood in 2007, while Dakota State 1,277 was up slightly.
Meanwhile off-campus courses intensified in popular-ity each of the six years in the analysis, reaching records in 2012 of 6,474 degree-seeking students and 6,081 non-degree seeking.
Jack Warner, the regents’ executive director, said the off-campus growth is a mixture of adults who don’t or can’t make
the trips to traditional cam-puses and students who are on campuses but take on-line courses so they don’t have to go to classes at specific times.
“What this means is there are implications for how we invest our resources,” Warner said in an interview Friday.
On one hand are traditional considerations such as resi-dence halls, dining facilities and other student amenities on campuses.
On the other hand are tech-nology issues such as suf-ficient bandwidth to handle streaming video and large data batches, computing power,
State universities face enrollment challengesOnline classes soar and student-mix shifts
“What this means is there are implications for how we invest our resources,”
Jack Warner, the regents’ executive
director
See COLLEGE, A8
Justin Joiner
BY ALLISON [email protected]
This school year, the Capital University Center will not only be offering new classes and degree options, but also additional ways to help pay for them.
The university center, located in Pierre, serves students in central South Dakota as part of the sys-tem governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents. Students can earn degrees from institutes such as Northern State University, South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota.
Director Ron Woodburn refers to the center as central South Dakota’s “portal into the higher education system.”
“We’re out here in the middle where people still need education,” said academic program coordinator Laura Hayden-Moreland. “People can continue their education even if they happen to move around.”
Fall classes begin on Aug. 26, and the newest class to be added to the roster is American Sign Language, taught by Nancy Schlichenmayer, a Northern State University instructor.
Hayden-Moreland said this is the first time the center has been able to offer a face-to-face sign language course, and she hopes there is interest in the community to learn about it.
“It’s a great opportunity, but we’re not sure who our audience is yet,” she said.
Come spring time, the center will also offer degree completion courses through the University of South Dakota, as well as hybrid courses consist-ing of face-to-face class time and online instruc-tion.
“Online classes expand your ability to study things that we aren’t able to offer here,” Woodburn said. “Students have a lot of flexibility with online classes, and if they are disciplined and dedicated to it, online classes are a really good option.”
And to help more students afford their class offerings, the center now offers state employee reduced tuition, approved by the Board of Regents
For more informationFor more information on the Capital University Center, visit cucpierre.org/ or call 605-773-2160.
Capital University Center o� ers new fi nancial, academic opportunitiesForget your two-stroke and your
four-stroke engines.Scott Mestrezat has done the
math and figures his engine – that’s Mestrezat himself with a paddle in his hands – will need about a million strokes to travel from the Missouri River headwaters in Montana to the place where the Big Muddy enters the Mississippi.
With a waterproof video camera mounted sometimes on his paddle, sometimes at the front end of his board, the Michigan native is travel-ing down the Missouri River on a stand-up paddleboard and document-ing his journey with video and still photographs.
“I’m making a documentary about it,” he said. “I’ve been very interested in photography for the last cou-ple of years, so this was a great chance to shoot a lot of photos.”
M e s t r e z a t , who began his journey to St. Louis at Three Forks, Mont., overnighted in Pierre on Saturday and continued his jour-ney from the Oahe Downstream area on Sunday. It was day 64 of what he estimates will be a 2,300-mile jour-ney.
He’s hoping to finish in about 100 days; and he hopes the worst may be already behind him.
“Oahe was just brutal,” said Mestrezat. “It’s a long lake. It was probably the most difficult part of the trip, actually. The last 150 miles of Oahe is just kind of a blur.”
Mestrezat, 27, has been living in Chicago for the past few years, first paddled a stand-up paddleboard on
Capital Journal earns award for Janklow coverage
Paddleboarder makes his way from Montana to Missouri
See CUC, A8
DIFFERENT STROKES
BY LANCE [email protected]
Above: Scott Mes-trezat packs about 80 pounds of gear on his stand-up paddle-board.
Left: A waterproof video camera that clips to his paddle or to the front of the board helps Scott Mestrezat document his journey down the Missouri River. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal)
Want more?Find out more about Scott Mestrezat’s Missouri River adventure at www.MissouriRiverSUP.com or � nd him on Facebook by searching for Missouri River SUP adventure.
See PADDLEBOARD, A8
