A 665-strong student body is the larg- est at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., in more than 15 years. In the last six years, enrollment has grown 24 percent, increasing every year except 2012 when there was a nation- wide trend of decreasing enrollment (the U.S. Census Bureau reported a loss of 467,000 students across U.S. colleges that year). With the campus at full capacity, a small number of stu- dents and a resident director are being housed off-campus in a hotel. “Now we are exploring housing options to meet the increased demand next fall and in the years to come,” said Beth- any President Edward F. Leonard III.
As arguments continued over the Affordable Care Act, Michael Dulitz, a senior at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D., published a research arti-
cle, “Betting the Farm,” in the Octo- ber 2013 issue of South Dakota Med- icine. Dulitz plans to attend medical school and pursue a master’s degree in public health. As part of a class on social science research methods, he surveyed 135 farmers in nine South
Dakota counties about their health and health insurance status before the Jan. 1, 2014, start of the act’s health insurance mandate. Dulitz said he found that as farmers age they “are paying an increasing cost for their health insurance” and making “sig-
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