Dana closes its doors
July 1, 2010 at 5:12 pm in The Daily Republic
Less than two months before the start of the 2010-11 school year, Dana College announced Wednesday night that it was closing its doors forever.
The sudden closure leaves more than 600 full- and part-time students and roughly 130 employees searching for a place to work or go to school this fall.
It also creates quite a dilemma for the other 12 schools in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. Continue Reading
I find it a little sad that an article about the closing of a school is more about the impact on regional sports than about the impact on the students, staff, and community.
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Hey Adam — welcome to our new comments site! You’re one of the first Daily Republic readers to create an account.
As for your comment, the story focused on sports because that’s the only interaction people in our area have with Dana. While Dana’s closing certainly will have an impact on students, staff, etc., that’s all happening outside of our coverage area. So we’re focusing on the only aspect of the closure that really impacts us, which is Dana’s participation in the same athletic conference as DWU.
Were it a South Dakota school in our coverage area that was closing, we would be doing news — not just sports — coverage of the closure.
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