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The Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota has one of the nation’s best online education degree programs for its graduate programs in business, according to U.S. News and World Report.

In “Top Online Education Programs 2012,” the University of South Dakota ranks among the top 100 institutions with business schools in the category of Faculty Credentials and Training for Graduate Programs – Business, and Student Services and Technology category of Graduate Programs – Business.

“Best Online Education Degree Programs – Business” criteria are based on several key factors, including students and faculty who were engaged in online accessible courses applicable toward online accessible degrees. U.S. News and World Report surveyed more than 600 colleges and universities with business schools. Final rankings were determined from total scores collected from institutional survey responses.

Drawing from its “Best Colleges” universe of regionally-accredited bachelor’s degree programs, U.S. News reached out to more than 1,700 institutions for its complete list of “Top Online Education Programs 2012.” Colleges and universities were asked if their institutions offered bachelor’s degree programs with course content at least 80 percent accessible to students online. Schools reporting “yes” were then requested to report…………… continues on Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Poverty remained a vague, distant idea for Ricky Padilla until he took a trip with a church group to Russia after high school.

He and others worked and taught at an orphanage for a month, where Padilla befriended a 7-year-old girl named Svieta. She didn’t speak English, and he didn’t speak Russian, but they connected.

On the day his group left, the translator pulled Padilla aside and told him Svieta was sobbing because she thought he’d take her with him and be her father. Padilla, it turned out, was the closest thing to a parental figure Svieta had.

“It really just wrecked me, kind of just put in my heart that I really want to make a difference, have a career that gave back to the world,” Padilla said.

A couple years later, Padilla arrived at Montana State University to study political science and economics, looking for a way to merge his skills and passions. One of Padilla’s economics books showed him a for-profit business model to help people in need.

In 2010, he started toying with the idea of starting a business and partnering with a nonprofit. One issue that struck him was that of clean w…………… continues on The Bozeman Daily Chronicle