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Presentation College closing Aberdeen campus

The 2022-23 calendar year will be the last year students will be able to enroll in classes at Presentation College's Aberdeen Campus.

According to an announcement posted on the Presentation College website, students will not be enrolled in the 2023-24 academic year and operations at the Aberdeen campus will cease after the spring and summer 2023 sessions.

Three Teach-Out Agreements with other higher educational institutions are in place, which provide complete credit acceptance and comparable net tuition costs for current students. These agreements are with St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa; University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D.; and and Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan.

St. Ambrose University and Presentation also announced plans last week to offer as an online program, Presentation's Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, a pathway for nursing students. This online program will become the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing at St. Ambrose in honor of Nano Nagle who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Aberdeen.

Presentation employees will have staggered end dates

According to the release employees are being provided staggered end dates and final compensation based on their responsibilities.

Presentation Sisters founded the College in 1951 to fulfill its mission of rural health care and service through nursing education. The College later expanded to include academic programs in Health and Natural Sciences, and Social Science and Humanities, to support its mission of development of the whole person, in the Catholic tradition. Presentation Sisters have continuously sponsored the College and retained ownership of the campus land with the College as a separate nonprofit.

More: Presentation College announces new re-envisioning plan with focus on rural health care

"After careful evaluation of the sustainability of the College’s academic programs, and a thorough review of alternatives, the Board of Trustees and Presentation Sisters reluctantly decided to close the physical campus and implement Teach-Out programs as the most responsible way to steward students’ pathways to completing their degrees,” Sister Mary Thomas, president of the Presentation Sisters Corporate Board said in the news release. “We understand and share the heartbreak by our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Aberdeen community, and we will work closely with them to succeed through this transition.”  

Presentation is hosting a Teach-Out/career fair Jan. 30-31 to assist students and faculty with their transitions to other institutions, according to the release. Presentation is also bringing independent academic coaches from College Possible to campus to assist students with their individual plans. A job fair will also be organized later this spring to help staff explore future employment opportunities.

Discussion about the campus' future started before the COVID pandemic

Just before the COVID pandemic in 2020, the College, the Board of Trustees, and the Corporate Board of the Presentation Sisters embarked on a year-long process of examining data and market impacts, engaging constituent groups to better understand the financial health of the College and its potential for growing enrollment to achieve sustainability. Its rural location, difficult for many out-of-state students to access, was already a known factor, along with a significant dependency on tuition revenue and gifts. The impact of COVID exacerbated the College’s challenges. 

“The College explored and brought to the boards numerous partnership options over the last year, resulting in their selection of St. Ambrose University for continuing the Online BSN programs,” said Paula Langteau, president of Presentation College in the release.

Presentation's nursing program is going online

Last week Presentation and St. Ambrose. University announced the creation of the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing.

More: Presentation, St. Ambrose University sign agreement to enhance online nursing education

“As previously announced, St. Ambrose University’s state-of-the-art nursing program is a natural fit with Presentation to create the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing, ensuring the legacies of the College and the Presentation Sisters,” Langteau said in the release. “SAU also will serve as one of a number of Teach-Out Partners for other majors. It is important to us that every student has multiple, comparable options to complete their chosen degrees on time and without an increased financial investment.”

How will the teach-out partnerships work

According to information on the Presentation College website, the teach-out agreements guarantee admission to St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa; University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D.; and and Olivet College in Olivet, Mich.

Students are also guaranteed tuition that is equal to or less than Presentation and students are guaranteed to complete the programs at the same time they would have completed them at Presentation.

Olivet College has a D-III athletic program and is part of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. University of Mary has a D-II athletic program and is part of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. St. Ambrose University is part of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

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Presentation College Closing This Summer

72 years after the Presentation Sisters founded Presentation College to train nurses for rural health care, Presentation College in Aberdeen will close after this summer’s academic term. Here’s the College’s announcement:

Presentation College announced today that it will not enroll students for the 2023-24 academic year and will cease educational operations at its Aberdeen campus after the Spring and Summer 2023 sessions. Three Teach-Out Agreements with other higher educational institutions are in place to provide complete credit acceptance and comparable net tuition costs for current students. Employees will be provided staggered end dates and final compensation based upon their responsibilities. St. Ambrose University (Davenport, Iowa) will continue to offer Presentation’s signature Online BSN program, a pathway for nursing students established through a consortial arrangement that was communicated last week. The Online BSN programs will become the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing at St. Ambrose University in honor of Nano Nagle who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Aberdeen, South Dakota (Presentation Sisters) in Ireland in 1775. “After careful evaluation of the sustainability of the College’s academic programs, and a thorough review of alternatives, the Board of Trustees and Presentation Sisters reluctantly decided to close the physical campus and implement Teach-Out programs as the most responsible way to steward students’ pathways to completing their degrees,” Sister Mary Thomas, president of the Presentation Sisters Corporate Board shared. “We understand and share the heartbreak by our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Aberdeen community, and we will work closely with them to succeed through this transition.” Presentation Sisters founded the College in 1951 to fulfill its mission of rural health care and service through nursing education. The College later expanded to include academic programs in Health and Natural Sciences, and Social Science and Humanities, to support its mission of development of the whole person, in the Catholic tradition. Presentation Sisters have continuously sponsored the College and retained ownership of the campus land with the College as a separate nonprofit. Just before the COVID pandemic, the College, the Board of Trustees, and the Corporate Board of the Presentation Sisters embarked on a year-long process of examining data and market impacts, engaging constituent groups to better understand the financial health of the College and its potential for growing enrollment to achieve sustainability. Its rural location, difficult for many out-of-state students to access, was already a known factor, along with a significant dependency on tuition revenue and gifts. The impact of COVID exacerbated the College’s challenges. “The College explored and brought to the boards numerous partnership options over the last year, resulting in their selection of St. Ambrose University (SAU) for continuing the Online BSN programs,” said Paula Langteau, president of Presentation College. “As previously announced, St. Ambrose University’s state-of-the-art nursing program is a natural fit with Presentation to create the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing, ensuring the legacies of the College and the Presentation Sisters,” President Paula Langteau said. “SAU also will serve as one of a number of Teach-Out Partners for other majors. It is important to us that every student has multiple, comparable options to complete their chosen degrees on time and without an increased financial investment.” Presentation also has Teach-Out Agreements in place with the University of Mary (Bismarck, North Dakota) and Olivet College (Olivet, Michigan) and continues to pursue adding agreements with other regional and online institutions. January 30-31, the College is hosting a Teach-Out Fair (in the afternoons) and a Career Fair (in the mornings) to assist students and faculty, respectively, with their transitions to other higher educational institutions. In a unique partnership for college transitions, the College is also bringing independent academic coaches from College Possible to campus to assist students with their individual plans. A Job Fair will be organized for later this Spring to help staff to explore future employment opportunities [Presentation College, announcement of closure , 2023.01.17].

Spring semester courses at Presentation started last week on Monday, January 9 . The college will maintain its full schedule of spring courses; it will offer only practical nursing certificate courses this summer. The college says it will fully refund students who choose to withdraw this semester .

St. Ambrose University will become the keeper of Presentation College’s transcripts and other records. The college says it is not filing for bankruptcy and should be able to carry out its existing contracts through August 31.

Presentation College’s closure is part of a long nationwide trend of campus closures. United States college and university closures spiked in 2016; over 860 higher-education campuses have closed since 2004 , largely due to a shrinking student pool . According to IPEDS , Presentation College’s full-time-equivalent enrollment in Academic year 2021 was 527; in 2017, PC FTEs reached a decade-peak at 752.

The Presentation Sisters left their convent in 2021 and moved to two assisted-living facilities in Aberdeen and Sioux Falls. The closure of Presentation College will leave the 100-acre campus on the northwest corner of town vacant and open to new development proposals. Expect a lot of money-people and idea people to be contacting the Sisters and the College trustees to float their ideas for converting the Presentation campus into Aberdeen’s Next Big Thing.

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Another nail in the coffin of healthcare for the citizens of SD. It will not be long before healthcare will only be available to those who can travel great distances to see even a mid-level provider.

For decades to pay lawsuits and hush money to the victims of pederastic clergy the Roman Church has been bleeding the assets and financial resources of the Presentation, Benedictine and the other ten orders of nuns in the United States forcing many elderly women into nursing homes at taxpayer expense. That’s it’s criminal is to say the very least.

Another measure of the dire labor shortage in the US is the closing of over 860 higher education schools since 2004. The US is short 400,000 workers (SD is short over 30,000 workers). The annual labor shortage will climb to about or over 900,000 annually in 15 years until peaking. Wage inflation is built into the system.

Noem’s and republican answers are to: 1) close the borders stopping immigration and exacerbating wage inflation, and 2) forcing seniors to work by cutting social security and medicare. The US will NOT receive immigrants from western or even eastern Europe because those nations have far better social safety nets and also have populations in decline. US immigrants MUST come largely from Central and South America and Africa – where the birthrate is over the replacement birthrate. Bloomberg and the financial press recently “woke up” to the fact that China’s population is fast declining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSV2bh48MA

I think that the campus, or at least part of the facilities at Presentation College should be converted to the Fred Deutsch Aberdeen Medical Cannabis dispensary. Maybe the Sisters should have kept the money that they used to help buy 20,000 votes to defeat IM27. Karma is a bitch.

Strange situation since nurses are in high demand and low availability. What gives?

For the record, The Presentation Sisters Are Not To Be Confused With The Pointer Sisters.

Your state needs a computer chip factory. America needs lots and lots of them.

Well…I consider it a blow to Aberdeen and to the state generally. The Benedictines and Presentation Sisters have contributed greatly to health care and our quality of life in South Dakota. Historically, in South Dakota, communities depended on the Presentation Sisters and Benedictines to establish hospitals and train medical personnel. It appears that time is now past but the quality of their replacements in the industry is in doubt.

Might this become a regional jail for the County of Brown and its neighbors?

Maybe it should become a boot camp for those whose BMI is over 27.

Maybe a Soylent Green processing center for grudz and his “Connie Commoners with No Sense” group.

A state-owned resort catering to elderly fellows who enjoy all you can eat breakfast buffets! Only that Aberdeen is a hole nobody wants to visit. So the prison idea is probably best.

To Serve Man.

Laudate Pueri Dominum

To Serve Mann

The point about health care and nurse supply is worth considering. We are short on nurses, as we are of many other important professionals. One would think that the need for nurses would have kept Presentation College’s nursing program viable. But perhaps PC struggled to sustain its nursing program for the same reasons South Dakota struggles to recruit nurses: not enough students wanted to study in a relatively remote area, and not enough faculty wanted to work for the lower wages at PC when they could make much more working elsewhere.

Of course, in this case, you’d think the wage issue would have solved itself: high demand for nurses should have led to high demand for nurse training programs which should have led to lots of tuition-paying students which should have led to good salaries for instructors.

PC was competing with SDSU for nursing students, and that doesn’t seem a fair fight, but again, if SDSU isn’t completely meeting the market demand for nurses, you’d think there’d be room for a competitive nursing program elsewhere in the state.

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Presentation College closing is a big thing.

The Republican Legislature has tightened up on college regulation. Check Secretary of State website for details.

Hey with a free Harvard Computer Science class or two under your belt, adjust your t shirt and you can swagger anyplace in South Dakota and say, “Hey man, I can code and do very cool things on the Web. What shall I change next?” You can be the hero in your adventure!

As to Aberdeen, hey, private colleges have closed before, Yankton College was a big one. With men attending college less than they did in the 1970s, online web colleges and learning programs are starting to take over.

To pump up Aberdeen in general, start a for profit or social business (M. Yunus, Nobel Prize Winner) and as you grow your business, set up shop in Aberdeen, add 5 or 10 employees there. Yes!

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According to this article…. https://www.usa.edu/blog/nursing-shortage/ .South Duhkota has the 7th largest shortage of nurses in the Nation.

Converting PC into assisted living apartments for low income Seniors would be an option.

The Order of the Presentation opened St. Mary’s in Elkton where I attended grade school but the nuns were from the Dominican and Benedictine Orders, too. They were Commies who taught us Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Puff the Magic Dragon.

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Loss of Presentation College to be felt in Aberdeen

The Presentation Sisters, the original sponsors of Presentation College, have a long history in the community of Aberdeen, from health care to affordable housing development.

That history closes later this year when the college ceases its operations in the Hub City.

Aberdeen mayor Travis Schaunaman said the city hasn’t forgotten their decades of service.

“The Sisters of the Presentation have really made a huge impact here in Aberdeen, they brought a great deal of value to our community in terms of nursing professionals to our community, but they couldn’t keep sticking it out and that’s an understandable thing,” Schaunaman said.

Schaunaman said the loss of the college will be felt in the community.

“Just one thing after another those guys have been helping with our needs," Schaunaman said. "The nursing program they developed through Presentation College was really intended to staff the hospital they had started. We’re really sad to see that go, we get a flock of students every year towards Presentation, and we’ll be sad to see those kids go.”

College president Paula Langteau expressed gratitude to the city.

“We’ve had an outpouring of support of individuals interested in helping our students and faculty and staff," Langteau said. "We are hosting career fairs, job fairs, teach-out fairs to help our students and I know we’ll be looking to the community when we’re doing our job fair for local opportunities coming up in late-February or early-March.”

Northern State University, also in Aberdeen, has been named another Presentation College teach-out partner. It’s one of five schools students can transfer to through a streamlined application process.

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Presentation college closing aberdeen campus.

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• January 17, 2023

Presentation College announced Tuesday it would be ceasing operations on its Aberdeen campus in the north part of town and no longer accepting students for the 2023-24 fall semester.

The announcement was made via a press release. This announcement comes days after an agreement was announced between St. Ambrose University in Davenport Iowa and PC to enhance its online nursing program. St. Ambrose will continue to offer PC’s signature online BNS program and be known as the Nano Nagle Online School of Nursing at St. Ambrose University.

“After careful evaluation of the sustainability of the College’s academic programs, and a thorough review of alternatives, the Board of Trustees and Presentation Sisters reluctantly decided to close the physical campus and implement Teach-Out programs as the most responsible way to steward students’ pathways to completing their degrees,” said Sister Mary Thomas, president of the Presentation Sisters Corporate Board. “We understand and share the heartbreak by our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Aberdeen community, and we will work closely with them to succeed through this transition.”  

“This extremely difficult decision was made after a careful evaluation of the sustainability of the College’s academic programs and a thorough review of alternatives. Ultimately, based on the College’s recent enrollment trends and financial health, and the bleak higher education enrollment forecast for the coming years, the Board of Trustees and the Presentation Sisters’ Corporate Board concluded that partnering with other colleges and universities to deliver Teach-Out programs is the most responsible way to steward our students’ pathways to completing their degrees.” PC president Dr. Paula Langteau said in a statement.

“For nearly 75-years Presentation College and the Presentation Sisters have been a beacon of pride for the city of Aberdeen, and the state of South Dakota.”

Presentation College was founded in 1951 and is renown for its nursing program.

According to coach’s at the college, athletics will cease operation as well. The men and women’s basketball season will be finished and the baseball and softball teams will move forward with their seasons, but following that there will be no more athletics at PC.

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ABERDEEN, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Presentation College in Aberdeen is closing in August, and city officials are hoping the employees will be able to find positions that allow them to stay in the area.

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