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remarkable in those first four or five years," Lee said. "That really signaled to the regents that we were onto something."
• In 2006, state legislators approved the establishment of a dedicated campus in northwestern Sioux Falls, which has grown to two classroom buildings with about 110,000 square feet of space and a 21,000-square-foot research center. The center still uses about 13,000 square feet of leased space at Southeast Tech for SDSU's nursing programs.
• Rapid City's University Center, which moved into its own $13.4 million facility in April 2011, added 49 students this past fall for an enrollment of 1,758, said dean Craig Johnson.
• More than half of the center's students take classes offered by Black Hills State University, also in Rapid City.

• The new 59,000-square-foot building, which houses 21 classrooms, 2 science labs, two computer labs and a 100-seat lecture hall, is spurring growth, said Craig Johnson, the center's dean.
• "Courses were a little spread out prior to the building opening up," Johnson said. "Students love having a place to call their own, to be able to come and study.
• The heads of three centers made their annual reports to the state Board of Regents this past week.
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