Montana Education/Business Partnerships

PPL Montana received more than 80 applications requesting a total of nearly $650,000 in funding for the fall grant cycle.

Now MSU administrators and professors are busy compiling lists to show the regents what MSU is already doing, as well as collecting ideas for new initiatives that might cost money.

The Purdue Extension, which has provided agricultural, leadership and family-sciences programs to generations of Indiana farm families, is retooling one of its missions to focus on economic development.

"We have a real desire as a board to accumulate funding to help do things in the school buildings themselves to help educate our children," Averett said. "They are the most precious resource we have."

If current trends continue, experts estimate that the U.S. will face a shortage of
roughly 13 million qualified employees by 2020.

The world’s mining sector faces a critical labor shortage at a time when global demand for commodities is running high — helping push up prices and limiting the supply of raw materials for products from mobile phones to jet engines and kitchen sinks.

Montana State University’s College of Business is seeking local and regional businesses that would be willing to offer MSU management students practical business experience this fall semester in return for research, issue analysis or operational advice.

Summer internships are common at a number of businesses and institutions across the state, adding to students’ resumes and helping them choose a career.

Interns at McLaughlin are bright and interested in science.

The program’s main focus is helping incoming freshmen stay in school by providing them advisors and hiring a mentor coordinator who will recruit volunteers to work with students.

The program also provides job-shadowing opportunities for juniors.

I am looking for three additional business owners/managers that would like to work with our Mktg 461 students this fall and have a marketing plan prepared for their business.