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Montana Higher Education Tries to Keep up With Changing Workforce Needs

Dozens of college presidents, national policy experts, and workforce leaders recently met with Montana employers to start finding solutions to the state’s workforce gaps. “Since Yellowstone, everyone wants to be a cowboy,” she says.

Leadership Montana Webinar: Higher Education’s Demographic Cliff  – 2/21 – Online

What’s the higher education demographic cliff? It can be described as “the number of traditional college-aged students will peak in 2025 and then decline dramatically for several years” (Inside HigherEd). Matched with a decline in demand from those students to enter into higher education, many higher education institutions are facing this currently or preparing for it.

University of Montana to restructure academic portfolio for next school year, citing changing student demands

The national narrative about the humanities’ lack of importance is a “red herring.”

“It’s the types of critical thinking skills that come from the humanities that are going to help people discern what’s AI-generated and what’s human-generated,” she said.

Public universities seek innovative ways to teach humanities as interest wanes

As state universities across the nation face budget troubles, declining enrollments and pressure to cut humanities courses and majors that have few students, some university systems are searching for innovative ways to restructure majors or entire universities.

Missoula College Awarded $10K Grant to Support Diesel Technology Students

The $10,000 award, provided by Modern Machinery and The Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, will directly support the students enrolled in the Diesel Technology Program at Missoula College’s West Campus.

Montana State awarded grant to boost high-performance computing capacity

The upgrade will roughly double current computation capacity and increase computing performance for some workloads tenfold, he said. 

How can AI bring academic research to the fore?

A platform recommends relevant research and makes it easier to understand

Montana college grads likely to earn more than average resident less than 5 years after graduation

Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that a vigorous investment in workforce training might be a good bet for colleges looking to remain relevant in a changing economy and for students eager to grow employment and earning potential over time.

Public Higher Ed and the Real Value of Arts and Humanities

In a time of disinvestment and other budget pressures, these programs are too often the first to be cut. But they are where students learn to have difficult conversations in an atmosphere of free inquiry and expression.

Rocky Vista announces plans for Billings, Montana college of veterinary medicine amid growing vet shortage

Rocky Vista University, which currently operates a college of osteopathic medicine, announced Thursday that it would be building a college of veterinary medicine on its Billings campus.

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