Montana Education Excellence

When it comes to Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s $3.1 billion list of “shovel ready” projects submitted to the new presidential administration as ways to help kick-start the economy, Montana’s universities and colleges didn’t quite make the cut.

The fiber optics project will put the two flagship campuses in the fast lane of the information superhighway. “We want to set the tone for innovation of the next big thing,” Ray Ford

This University, amidst this natural laboratory, is a special place. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into ideas taking flight from here.

It is available to students who have a parent or grandparent who attended UM.

Before this fall, Patricia Spencer says her 7-year-old son, Joseph ,wasn’t all that excited about reading.

But one visit to the Lewis and Clark Library to read to a therapy dog last October changed all that.

Incoming Superintendent of Schools Denise Juneau said OPI has several ideas in the works for the upcoming session, but they are all pretty much in line with the increases and cuts Schweitzer made.

"Our office is under no illusion of what kind of economic crisis is out there," she said. "The one way to get out of this crisis is through a quality public education system."

The Employment Strategies course focuses on how to compete in a tough job market and how to find a job in less time by effective self-marketing.

Late-night talk-show host David Letterman, who owns a ranch outside Choteau, read the story in the New York Times. As a way to make amends for the way Choteau had treated Running, Letterman invited him to his ranch along with several local conservation groups.

Yoshiko Colclough, assistant professor of nursing at MSU, has a two-year grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation to introduce and offer recommendations about palliative care to the Blackfeet Nation.

The Montana Board of Regents may have rejected the idea of opening a community college in the Bitterroot earlier this month, but that hasn’t stopped Bitterrooters from forging ahead with plans for one.