EDUCATION

"We call it an education without boundaries,"

The University of Montana has a web of connections to the Inland Northwest Space Alliance, aside from those that prompted a state investigation, according to UM and INSA documents. In addition to Lloyd Chesnut, the former UM vice president who helped create INSA and then took a paid position at the private organization, at least three other UM employees are or were also INSA employees.

Yet since DuPont introduced decentralization to business nearly 90 years ago, large companies have stumbled across few ideas that have better withstood the test of time. Now, momentum is building from New York City to San Francisco to Miami to decentralize public schools and drag them into the 1920s.

Regents also believe the center was created without their knowledge or approval, casting doubt on the University of Montana’s process for such projects and the practices of the university’s top administrators.

A Washington, D.C., newspaper is raising questions about whether former staffers for Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., have used their links to the senator and a Montana State University technology center http://btc.montana.edu/index.htm to make money.

The goals of the game are not only to reinforce the thinking process behind information gathering and distinguishing between different types of sources, but also to teach etiquette, Paul says.

Business leaders have a particularly important role
to play.

With Industrious Kid, Symons and some partners hope to answer thelarger need — that is the desire of kids 8 to 14 who may want to create blogs and express themselves to friends via the Web but who would be safer not to have that stuff broadcast to the whole world.

Olin College is the answer to an extraordinary question: If a foundation offered $460 million to start an undergraduate college of engineering from scratch, what would it be like? Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is like few other schools. It has no academic departments. No tenure. No tuition. And more female students and professors, percentage-wise, than almost any other U.S. engineering school.

Students can apply for The Governor’s Postsecondary Scholarship at http://www.mgslp.org or http://www.mt.gov. The application deadline is March 31.