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Dakota State outlines cyber expansion, Sioux Falls secure facility and near‑universal job placement
Summary
Dakota State President José‑Marie Griffiths told the Joint Committee on Appropriations that DSU used a $30M cyber expansion appropriation to grow faculty and programs, is launching a Governor’s Cyber Academy and will house secure research space in a Denny Sanford–funded facility in Sioux Falls; she said DSU reports job-placement rates above 99% within six months.
José‑Marie Griffiths, president of Dakota State University, presented the university’s outcomes and capital plans to the Joint Committee on Appropriations, focusing on quantum and cyber investments intended to grow the state’s cybersecurity workforce.
Griffiths said the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology received a state appropriation of approximately $3.0 million (split among Regental institutions) and that DSU used a 2022 $30 million appropriation to expand cyber capacity. She told lawmakers DSU has submitted and received several NSF awards tied to quantum and related research and that the campus collaborates with the Sanford Underground Research Facility and national labs.
On workforce development, Griffiths described…
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