Montana Education/Business Partnerships

During the three-month course, students will help manage special marketing projects requested by area businesses, including helping businesses meet pre-set management and marketing goals, working with either a portion or the entire business. Areas of focus include the market, competition, operations and financials.

"We went into it thinking we needed to improve the dropout rate and we would have to work on the curriculum to do that,"
While some critics maintain that the business rhetoric on education stops at the wallet, the dialogue between the business community and educators has allowed both sides to better understand the other’s perspective.
Burdick said. "We kept peeling back the onion and came upon statistics that showed the dropout rate increased dramatically if students were not reading at grade level at the third grade."

Ford is looking for a spam filter that can be tailored to individual users, so people with UM e-mail addresses could determine themselves what is spam and what isn’t.

“The relationship between RightNow and MSU is a wonderful example of community partnership,” said MSU President Geoff Gamble. “Having a successful technology company like RightNow as such a close and supportive neighbor is a tremendous benefit for both MSU’s computer science students and the university as a whole.”

Other partnerships have been formed in School District 2 in the past, but Partners in Education will help "create a solid foundation that marries the education side and the business side for the benefit of both sides."

Higher education has just become more affordable for Montana’s neediest high school seniors thanks to Missoula industrialist Dennis Washington and his wife, Phyllis.

A new report from the Pew Partnership for Civic Change offers recommendations for building more effective partnerships between universities and communities. Posted In Southern Compass The report is based on two years of research and…

It’s that time again when I am looking for companies who would like a student group to work with them during the fall semester for their high-tech marketing needs. The class I teach is Marketing…

Local businesses are sought who would be willing to offer Montana State University College of Business senior management students practical business experience in return for business research, marketing and operational advice and data from the…

Whittenberg will serve in a half-time capacity to help the college develop relationships with and create training opportunities for local businesses. "Outreach to the community is an significant part of what a community college does, and Bruce’s involvement as the head of the college’s outreach Center of Excellence will propel the college a long ways toward this goal," Cech said.