Recently, many European countries have increased access to higher education. Dr. Card wanted to see first-hand how those changes have been implemented, and her experiences may prove useful to higher education in the United States, and specifically South Dakota.
It's been going smoothly. It's been taking longer than we thought it would because there are so many good ideas. It's a real challenge to decide which of those ideas we can move forward with during the next five years.
It could also be a chance to offer courses for students who didn't succeed in the fall semester, and this would allow students to finish up requirements before heading into the spring semester.
We'd have to determine what this means with student housing, with food services and that type of thing. We sort of take a break from that over Christmas.
It's a center to ultimately improve student learning through better teaching.
We might have to start small and develop more courses as interest grows.
