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Bismarck State requests startup funds, housing authorization and $43M health sciences expansion as enrollment surges
Summary
Bismarck State College leaders told the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division they have outpaced five‑year goals, face a critical student housing shortage, and asked for program start‑up funding, formula changes for energy programs and a 62,000‑square‑foot Health Sciences expansion estimated at $43 million.
Brent Sanford, interim president of Bismarck State College, told the committee the college has posted consecutive enrollment growth and has reached or exceeded internal five‑year goals earlier than planned. Sanford and Rebecca Collins, executive vice president for Bismarck State College, outlined a set of requests the college said are needed to sustain growth and meet statewide workforce demand.
Why it matters: Bismarck State said rapid growth has produced capacity limits in housing, health sciences training space and high‑cost technical programs; leaders asked the committee to consider formula changes affecting energy programs and to authorize targeted capital projects.
Sanford described campus growth and a mismatch between credit production and state funding per student. “We will…
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