Diversity: International students have hard time adjusting

With a 20 percent spike in international students currently residing on USD’s campus, International Student Services struggles to keep up with the increasing flow of foreign-born students.  Preeti Gupta came to the University of South Dakota and learned everything by herself. Food, slang terms, party culture – it was all unknown terrain to the international […]

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Alumni remain local: Part 1 – USD graduates create businesses

For nearly 45 years, University of South Dakota alumna Phyllis Packard has incorporated her passion for fiber weaving into her career in some shape or form. Whether through teaching her craft to curious minds, spinning, dying, and selling South Dakota wool to other talented weavers or showcasing her work to the world by means of […]

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