Montana Education Excellence

The stigma that was once attached to sending a child off the reservation – the legacy of forced boarding-school programs in the early 1900s that tried to strip Indians of their culture and language in the name of assimilation – has faded as elders who remember the old days die off.

Junior high students presented Mortenson with a check for $1,498.50 toward Pennies for Peace. Mortenson started the program under his Central Asia Institute. The focus is to fund education projects and donations are based mostly on folks giving pennies toward the cause.

Comer is a professor of biological sciences, neuroscience and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

UM now ranks 17th for producing volunteers among medium-sized universities and colleges with enrollments between 5,001 and 15,000.

The 2007 program profiles the lives of six teenagers across the state as they negotiate their teen years, battling issues such as racism, motherhood and mental health.

“I want to ensure that all Montana citizens, businesses, and communities have access to the benefits of two-year education and, more importantly, that they make use of that access.”

Despite congressional turnover and reform, Montana State University has managed to hang onto its ranking as one of the top 20 universities in the nation winning federal dollars through earmarks.

Sen Max Baucus is teaming up with Montana State University, the University of Montana and Tech Ranch to bring Montana research and business leaders together for the first-of-its-kind research summit in Bozeman.

The site http://www.safeinyourspace.org gives advice to parents, teachers and kids on a host of Internet safety considerations, like how to identify and report online predators and what to do if other kids bully your child online.

The 100 percent acceptance rate is impressive, particularly given that only about 42 percent of all people who apply to medical school usually are admitted.