University of Great Falls mission to "prepare students for living and mak-
ing a living." Karen Beiser at Rocky Mountain College says, "There's a lot of value to bringing creativity to the work place. I love what I do." Jim Potter, Director of University Rela- tions at Great Northern Havre comments, "A lot of students do double majors, getting degrees in Agriculture and Business or Diesel Mechanics and Business. They will plan to put in an extra year or extra semester to get those extra courses in, because they recog- nize this likelihood they'll be in business." He adds, "With these kinds of degrees, you'll come out with salable skills."
Joshua (Josh) Vincent is a 1997 environmental engineering graduate of Montana Tech of the University of Montana in Butte. For several years after graduation he worked for a small environmental consulting firm. In 2000, with David Erickson and Elizabeth Erickson, also graduates of Montana Tech, they formed their own firm, Water & Environmental Technologies, an environmental consulting and engi- neering firm. From the three founders, they have grown to a staff of 20, building and filling to capacity a new office building in uptown Butte, and a branch office in Great Falls. www.wet-lic.com.
Leaders (AIBL) program, with national headquarters on the University of Montana campus in Missoula and university chapters at the University of Montana, and Montana State Univer- sity campuses at Bozeman, Billings, and Havre, plus at
Another important part of entrepreneurship education in Montana happens with the American Indian Business
Montana tribal colleges. AIBL holds annual business plan competitions, and in the 2011 competition, the MSU Bill- ings AIBL chapter won the competition for the third time in recent years.
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