Montana Education/Business Partnerships

We are writing to invite you to host an Employer Information Booth in the Gallagher Business Building this semester.

S&K Technologies is offering an academic scholarship award in the amount of $15,000 to Graduate Students in the IT and/or Business Administration fields.

The First Interstate BancSystem Foundation, based in Billings, awarded the State Library $35,000, and the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, based in Missoula, awarded the State Library $10,000. The money will be used to expand the Montana State Library’s statewide early literacy initiative, Ready 2 Read.

During the four-month courses, students will help manage special consulting projects requested by area businesses and non-profit organizations.

"In so many ways, it’s a, ‘Have education, will travel,’ world. You won’t get far without it." Sheila Stearns

The Crow Education Partnership – a project to provide science enrichment activities for fourth-grade students in the Hardin School District on the Crow Indian Reservation in south-central Montana.

Helena-based communications and marketing firm Strategies 360 Montana has been selected to serve as the consultant for a Montana University System initiative that aims to draw interest and increase access to the state’s two-year colleges.

"It’s a sun mill rather than a windmill,"

The Montana Campus Compact (MTCC) http://www.mtcompact.org , a statewide higher
education consortium of 19 colleges and universities, has been awarded
$639,583 grant to support its popular, statewide Campus Corps program.

The Greater Ravalli Foundation has been doling out scholarships to deserving high school kids since its inception in 2002. Normally, though, the group gives out eight to 10 awards. But this year was a little different.