Montana Education Excellence

Reynolds’ interests were also influenced by teacher Gary Betcher, who outfitted Choteau High School with a room full of Radio Shack TRS-80s, one of the first personal computers. Ralph Paulus also had an early Apple II, and after Reynolds finished helping with farm work, he would spend hours programming games.

Clay Christian, Board of Regents vice chair, at the direction of board chair Steve Barrett, has selected the 20-member search committee tasked with finding the successor for University of Montana President George M. Dennison, who intends to retire Aug. 15 after two decades at the helm.

“This is the most exciting fiscal budget period I’ve ever seen,” Deputy Commissioner of Higher Education Mick Robinson said.

In the age of digital technology, and at time when shrinking state tax revenue is dominating the day’s agenda, is it possible to reduce travel expenses by using technology?

Pharmacy School Retains Top-10 Ranking

The city was chosen because or its efforts to provide healthier meals for students.

The document portrays MSU as a hard-working bargain — where it costs only 76 cents to teach students for every dollar it costs at similar research universities, and where academic departments teach 23 percent more classes than their national peers.

The 30 teachers chosen will receive special training and materials for helping other teachers and their students understand MESSENGER’s mission to Mercury. Both formal and informal educators are encouraged to apply.

Looking for an example of significant and successful reform? The university system’s annual statewide writing assessment for high school students, a collaborative secondary-postsecondary project, is an innovation that has resulted in significantly greater student achievement. That’s the kind of reform that matters.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered all state agencies to reduce general fund spending by 5 percent in the current biennium; thus UM’s work toward that goal.