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5 ways to get the University of Montana on course

December 17, 2016 /

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Are the best days of our beloved University of Montana behind us? Not if we choose otherwise.

Four years ago the UM provost tipped the hand of Helena administrators in an email message. Their future vision for UM described a campus where the traditional liberal arts core of UM would be slashed, with the remnants taught at Missoula College. UM would have to be "right-sized" in that transition to a campus with only professional schools and some surviving undergraduate academic programs, while struggling to keep its flagship status along the way.

DOUG COFFIN, MEHRDAD KIA and THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA ADVOCACY COALITION

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