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Montana colleges aim to improve access, enrollment

More than 100 educators and others are meeting in Bozeman this week to help devise strategies for the state’s system of two-year colleges, including new names for the state’s five colleges of technology in Helena, Butte, Great Falls, Billings and Missoula.

State higher education officials are calling the eight-hour Rebranding Summit, from noon Thursday to noon Friday a "significant milestone" in the system’s College!NOW initiative to make two-year colleges in the state more accessible and better coordinated, with the goal of increasing enrollment.

It will also be the largest gathering of people concerned with two-year colleges in Montana in 20 years, or maybe ever, said John Cech, the state deputy commissioner for two-year and community college education.

"We’re aware that to many Montanans this may not seem all that revolutionary, and yet we believe it is revolutionary, and especially after this summit," said Sheila Stearns, the state’s commissioner of higher education. "We think we are now, after four years, step by step, on the verge of something truly groundbreaking for the state of Montana."

By SANJAY TALWANI Independent Record

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