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Montana Campus Corps Service Projects Aim to Make a Difference

During the nation’s largest day of service, Campus Corps volunteers will participate in projects in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Columbia Falls, Havre, Helena, Missoula, Pablo and Wolf Point.

Rocky Mountain College hosts high school computer competition

This is the fifth year Rock has hosted the event, which has expanded with teams from the western part of the state coming to compete against their eastern counterparts.

Concerned about competition, Wyoming schools adjust grading scales

"When the Hathaway Scholarship came out, an A is an A," Pickett said. "You want to give your kids every advantage you can."

Sounding the alarm: Universities must be catalysts for growth

“Business as usual in our country will no longer work. A few years from now will be too late to reverse these trends.”

University of Montana Establishes Native American Research Laboratory

The laboratory is the first research lab at any university in the nation developed specifically to provide hands-on cross-disciplinary research training opportunities for Native American undergraduate and graduate students.

PPL Montana awarding grants to Montana schools

The money goes towards programs that teach students the important role they play in maintaining a healthy environment.

A National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System.

The plan calls for creating a number of new organizations including a non-federal National Council for STEM Education to coordinate key policies, a new pre-K to 20 STEM education program at the NSF, and new offices to focus on STEM education at the National Science and Technology Council and at the US Department of Education. The plan also recommends a host of measures to promote vertical integration (across different grade levels) and horizontal integration (between local, state, and federal authorities) of STEM education initiatives.

New Web site helps Montana families prepare for college

The Web site — at http://www.knowhow2gomontana.org — is an extension of a national initiative to encourage and prepare more low-income and first-generation students to get into college.

DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack.

At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.

Disabled student access to some areas of University of Montana campus still inadequate

Under Montana law, public events cannot be held at a location that does not have disabled access. Every year, an e-mail is sent to all University staff by President George Dennison reminding them of the law regarding accessibility, said Jon Pielaet, ADSUM administrative head.