City Club Missoula – Provost Royce Engstrom Speaks on why the University of Montana must educate more people at a more sophisticated level.

To meet the demands of a global society, the University of Montana must educate more people at a more sophisticated level.

So said UM Provost Royce Engstrom http://www.umt.edu/provost/ on Monday at the monthly City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org luncheon.

Engstrom said UM wants more students enrolled in the university, more integration among disciplines, more connections between real-life problems and classroom work, and more state investment in higher education.

On average, a college graduate earns $1 million more in a lifetime than a high school graduate, Engstrom said. More than personal gain, however, communities whose population is college-educated benefit from the added leadership skills – which in turn lead to greater cultural and economic development, he said.

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However, he said, none of this is possible without money.

“Unfortunately, the news is not so great on that front,” Engstrom said.

According to the study “Trends in College Spending” http://www.deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/trends_in_spending-report.pdf released by the DELTA Project in January 2009, Montana is ranked 50th in the country in terms of state spending per student at a public research university.

“(The state) needs to increase that investment,” Engstrom said.

By CHELSI MOY of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/06/16/news/mtregional/news08.txt

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Beginning this Sunday, May 21 @ 5pm, repeating Monday, May 22 @ 8am

This program will air each Sunday and Monday until the next City Club meeting.

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