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The school’s reznet program is a Web-based student newspaper that hires 20 American Indian college students each year as reporters and photographers to cover their tribal communities and colleges.

MSU is in the midst of a "branding" effort to strengthen its identity in the public mind. It plans to come up with a new logo and new, uniform letterhead, Web pages, colors and photos.

The study calculated how well each state’s schools overcome social problems.

Welcome to the University of Montana School of Business Administration’s new Web site http://www.business.umt.edu/ . It’s been redesigned to provide all the information potential students, current students and faculty members might need, with the professionalism…

"There’s a good ‘work hard, play hard philosophy’ there," he said. "Missoula is a good-sized town, a liberal town and has easy access to environmental pleasures, and a lot of students take advantage of that."

Under McAllister’s leadership the school has tried hard to attract more such freshmen by expanding the fledgling athletic program and starting an ambitious team-building and community service program for freshman dubbed the Corps of Discovery, after the venturesome Lewis and Clark expedition team.

UM will be featured for its student programs that focus on community enhancement and service, most of which are generated by UM’s Office of Civic Engagement, Campus Compact, and People In Ecological Agriculture and Society program.

As part of the "Partners in Learning" project, the computer software giant will give up to $4 million to the state in the next five years to set up a system of Web sites, the company and Gov. Jennifer Granholm said yesterday.

"This new knowledge and understanding can really help in the classroom," Hannum said. "It gives us some tools so we can better understand where our kids are coming from."

The Bozeman Tech Center has been running newspaper ads to get the word out that students can earn two-year associate degrees in computer technology here. Fall classes start this week.