Montana Education/Business Partnerships

"We are severely lacking in primary care providers in Montana," REACH program coordinator Martha Robertson said. "We are trying to get more health care professionals to work in rural areas."

"We want to partner as much as we can with the community and the campus."

Businesses and non-profit organizations that wish to participate are invited to apply to the MSU College of Business. Applications are due Dec. 7, and businesses and organizations selected to participate will be notified by Dec. 21.

Legal Atlas is being launched as a public-private partnership with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana.

How about the Missoula company with no debt, no investors and only 5 employees making millions with an 85+% profit margin that is now part of Dell?

"That’s what we are here to do: We respond to the business community’s needs," Dean Barry Good said. "In the past, nationally speaking, programs tended to be set up at schools because the educators thought they knew what business needed. But we recognize that business knows what business needs, and we are here to respond as quickly as possible to those needs."

The new program offers students a combination of academic mentorship and industry research experience in order to give them hands-on career skills.

All are welcome to network with Montana’s future entrepreneurs

Legal Atlas is being developed as public-private partnership with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, adding what Pascual and Wingard say is a crucial "academia" element that can help expand on what’s learned from the data.

"They have given me the opportunity to not only achieve a master’s degree and become involved in an exciting area of industry, but also provide the unique experience of working on something that could help, and keep me in touch with, my home town area."