DATE:      September 19, 2000

 

TO:           Board of Regents

 

FROM:     W. Franklin Gilmore

Chancellor, Montana Tech of The University of Montana

 

RE:           Campus Report for the September 21-22, 2000 Board of Regents’ Meeting

 

 

·        International Exchange program grants from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

 

a)     Environmental Research and Applied Technology – Montana Tech/National University of the Altiplano-Puno, Peru - $110,000 over three years.

 

b)     Montana Tech Foreign Exchange Program – South America, Asia, South Pacific and  Europe - $100,000 over two years.

 

·        Grants and Contract expenditures in FY2000 totaled $5,510,000, the largest record G&C in the campus history and represents a 1% increase over last year’s totals.  From 1990 to present, this represents an increase of 532% or 18%/year over the ten year period.

 

·        Completion of campus rewiring funded from IT fee.  At this time Tech has 100 megabits available at every desktop and in every classroom.

 

·        Montana Tech tied for third place in the new U.S. News & World Report as one of the best public regional universities in the West.

 

·        Montana Tech once again ranked in “The Princeton Review” in the 2001 Edition of The Best 331 Colleges.

 

·        1^st Career Fair – had 47 companies for all over the U.S. participate.  Approximately 650 students participated in this fair.

 

·        Montana Tech and The University of Montana-Missoula are collaborating to develop a web-based professional ethics course.

 

·        Montana Tech is celebrating its 100^th Anniversary this year.

 

·        The economic impact of Montana Tech to the local economy is over $49 million.