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UM provost Pardis Mahdavi leaving role to spearhead new multi-state collaboration to expand degree opportunities

Provost Pardis Mahdav

The University of Montana’s provost will be leaving her position at the end of the semester to spearhead a new higher education initiative.

Though she’s leaving the provost’s office, Pardis Mahdavi will continue to expand educational opportunities for UM and other universities as executive director for the Networked University, an initiative that seeks to build opportunities for universities to collaborate and utilize their strengths.

“We’re all better off if we kind of do our things well, but collaborate across disciplines,” Mahdavi said on Monday. “No one up until now had thought about kind of going up in elevation a bit and doing this at the national level. I also think there’s something to be said for this very significant and needed change in higher education to come from the Rocky Mountain West, not the coasts.”

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