25 Facts About Montana State University

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Montana State University is a public land-grant research university in Bozeman, Montana.

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Montana State University's foresight helped the college survive the rapid rise in enrollment, which doubled from 1,155 in 1945 to 2,014 in 1946 and then nearly doubled again in 1947 to 3,591.

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Montana State University agreed to consulting roles with the Water Resources Policy Commission, Mutual Security Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare throughout the 1950s that often took him away from campus for weeks at a time.

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Montana State University took a leave of absence from the college to become Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs from 1963 to 1964.

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Montana State University restricted the kind of speakers who visited the campus, most famously denying former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and literary critic Leslie Fiedler the right to speak on campus.

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Montana State University was deeply committed to continuing Renne's educational plan, but declined to spend money on new buildings.

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Montana State University continued Renne's policies largely barring from campus speakers who were not clearly in the political mainstream.

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Montana State University was the first and the only Montanan to become president of MSU.

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Montana State University faced a poor fiscal climate: The state was entering a decade-long depression brought about by a steep drop in commodity prices, the state's higher education system had grown too large and unwieldy, and Governor Thomas L Judge had established a blue-ribbon committee to close several of the state's colleges.

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Montana State University was particularly interested in MSU, where McIntosh's laid-back governance style was widely considered to have hurt the university.

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11.

Montana State University had served as MSU's Dean of Graduate Studies from 1979 to 1988, and then three one-year temporary appointments as vice president for Academic Affairs while a fruitless nation search occurred for a permanent replacement.

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Montana State University expanded alumni fund-raising programs, and pushed the MSU Foundation to redouble its fund-raising efforts.

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Montana State University weathered a strike by clerical and administrative support staff in 1992.

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Montana State University was later criticized for initiating projects without having the money to complete them and then using the subsequent construction crisis to raise the funds to finish the project.

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Montana State University was the second MSU president to die in office, and the second to die of heart failure.

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16.

Montana State University appointed the university's first permanent female vice president, and by 2009 women outnumbered men among MSU's deans, five to four.

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Montana State University appointed Dr Henrietta Mann his personal representative to the seven tribal colleges which participate in the Montana University System and created a Council of Elders to bring leaders of the tribal colleges together twice a year at MSU for discussions.

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Montana State University offers the world's only Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, and MSU's Museum of the Rockies is home to the largest T Rex skull ever found—bigger, even, than "Sue" at the Chicago Field Museum.

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Montana State University refers to itself as "the University of the Yellowstone, " for its extensive research and scholarly activities concerning the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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Montana State University has received more than five times the number of National Science Foundation grants for Yellowstone studies than its nearest competition, Stanford and UCLA, according to David Roberts, head of MSU's ecology department.

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21.

Montana State University succeeded Martha Potvin, who in 2010 became the university's first female provost.

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22.

Montana State University maintains extensive research programs, providing opportunities for undergraduates, graduates, and advanced graduate students.

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23.

Montana State University maintains a technology transfer office to commercialize MSU faculty inventions, spur businesses based on those technologies and network with businesses looking to license MSU technologies.

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MSU athletic teams are nicknamed the Bobcats, and they participate in NCAA Division I in the Big Sky Conference, of which Montana State University is a charter member.

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25.

Montana State University has won several national championships in men's rodeo, three national championships in football and one national championship in men's basketball.

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