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‘It Takes a Village:’ Social Support Proves Crucial for Female and Minority Hunters

On a star-filled, late-October morning, Ada Smith and three fellow hunters zipped up their top layers of hand-me-down camouflage. The small group gathered that day on Smith’s family land in rural Montana for an outdoor sport none of them were brought up with and an event that research had lead them to create: Burnt Fork Ladies Hunting Weekend. 

University of Montana mulls academic renewal amid push for STEM college

Mahdavi’s push for bolstering interdisciplinary connections comes from the growing number of employers whose ideal candidates have experiential learning or internships on their resumes.

Wild Sustenance: Innovative Course Introduces UM Students to Hunting – “This was the coolest and most practical class I have ever taken,” Hanson said, “and my freezer is the proof.”

“Almost all of us who are hunters learned from relatives and friends. We had opportunities,” said course instructor Joshua Millspaugh, UM’s Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation. “There is such an impediment to those who didn’t have that opportunity. The students that are here say, ‘I’ve always been interested in learning more, but I don’t know where to start.’

UM Native Excellence Programs Receive $250,000 Cognizant Foundation Gift

The Cognizant Foundation support also will help UM launch the Indigenous First-Year Experience program, new for the 2022-23 academic year. That program will foster a supportive cohort of first-year American Indian students while connecting them with critical resources to ensure a successful start to their college experience.

University of Montana begins search for new vice president for people and culture, vice provost for educational initiatives and innovation

  The University is seeking candidates for two new administrator positions to bring different UM departments under the same umbrella: vice president for people and culture and vice provost for educational initiatives and innovation.  …

Unique Missoula Sentinel high school aviation program has students flying high

Need a job? How about one in aviation?

Numbers provided to MTN News by Boeing show that over the next 20 years there will be a demand for 128,000 new pilots, 134,000 new aviation technicians and 173,000 new cabin crew positions in the US alone.

University of Montana Named America’s #1 University for Community and National Service

“This ranking confirms what is in the very fabric of a UM education: that our students and alumni understand the value of giving back,” he said. “I can’t think of more critical gift to the world than students who are civically minded and engaged in their communities.” President Seth Bodnar

From books to beanbags, Montana’s teachers turn to crowdfunding for supplies. You Can Help

Montana educators have long dipped into their own pockets to pay for classroom essentials. A national nonprofit is helping alleviate that strain

Montana group gets grant to organize against privatized education

“People in Montana love their schools, they have always loved their schools and supported them across the state,” said Moffie Funk, the director of Montanans Organized for Education. “Unfortunately, in more recent years, people have come in wanting to privatize. They see Montana as ripe for the picking, that this is a place where they can come in and privatize and truly undermine our public education system.”

‘Horses can’t lie’: Montana universities adopt new approaches to address mental health – Natural Horsemanship class just one of the offerings at University of Montana Western in Dillon

Starting this fall at Montana State University Billings, a new option for therapy that has been used to treat veterans and families for years now hopes to do the same for students.

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Montana Technology Innovation Partnership (MTIP)- Promoting Technology Commercialization in the State of Montana.

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Bozeman is a rapidly growing city with a high quality of life in part due to the easy access to the outdoors, burgeoning tech industry, and cultural experiences it offers.