Dakota State University

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Closed

What happened
The archived "metals" listing appears to be a directory artifact built around one studio-art professor, Allan C. Fisher (hired 1990), who taught Ceramics & Sculpture and worked in cast bronze and jeweler's wax -- not a standalone metals/jewelry program or degree. Fisher left DSU (reported as retiring "after 10 years in Madison," i.e. roughly the early-2000s) and later volunteered teaching art at the South Dakota penitentiary. DSU is a teacher-training school (founded 1881) that the 1984 legislature redirected toward computing/technology; it is now known primarily for cybersecurity and digital arts. There is no evidence DSU ever conferred a metals or jewelry degree, and none exists today. No metals/jewelry program head is findable because no such program exists.

Link
dsu.edu/academics/majors-degrees.html