Scholarship targets South Dakota “brain drain”

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – After enrollment at South Dakota’s six public universities dropped in the course of the COVID pandemic, the South Dakota Freedom Scholarship was put collectively to encourage college students of all financial backgrounds to dwell, work, and research in South Dakota after commencement.

Whereas it’s thought-about a public scholarship there’s a facet that deems it a non-public scholarship as nicely.

“The rationale why it’s a non-public pupil mortgage is that if you happen to don’t observe together with the necessities then you definately do must pay it again … and so that’s the pupil mortgage side of what all of that is,” stated Freedom Scholarship coordinator Elli Haerter.

In keeping with Haerter, over a thousand college students have already accomplished the paperwork to obtain the scholarship and they’re hoping extra apply.

Two elements that go into how a lot funding the scholars obtain are their revenue standing and the way a lot the college decides to offer the coed.

For extra data on the scholarship, you possibly can go to the Freedom Scholarship web site or you can too get in contact along with your college’s monetary division.

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