Montana Community Colleges Growing Up

Montana’s two-year colleges have a tough task: How to increase enrollment closer to regional and national rates, while doing a better job with the students and programs they already have?

Monday, about 100 leaders of Montana’s two-year colleges — representing every such college and program in the University of Montana system — heard from a national leader on the matter that the state is in a tough spot.

"You’re going to be serving three meals a day while you’re refurbishing the kitchen," said Terry O’Banion, who has written 14 books on community colleges, led a major community college group for 23 years, and had key role in the growth of such colleges for half a century.

By SANJAY TALWANI Independent Record

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