Academic Year 2007-2008 is a building year at Montana State University – Great Falls. If you take classes in Great Falls, when you visit the campus in Fall 2007, you will see an enormous new wing being added to the northwest portion of our building. By Spring 2008, the construction should be complete.

“Building out” – there’s something so exciting about that phrase. “Building out” means new growth, new possibilities, and new opportunities. It means incorporating the new into the old. It means a transformation that you can actually watch evolve, as cement becomes foundation, beams become roof, and a skeletal framework gradually becomes a thriving facility humming with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

This year can be a year for you to “build out” as well. When you enroll at MSU – Great Falls – whether you take classes on our Great Falls campus, online, or at one of our extension sites in Bozeman – you invest in your own growth, with all the new possibilities and opportunities that personal and professional development brings. You engage in the act of transforming yourself by adding new knowledge and new skills to your potential. Like our new addition, the process of building out intellectually is a gradual one. One week, you’re fumbling with a concept in a science class or with a piece of equipment in one of our healthcare programs. A month later, the new concept or skill is firmly in place in your mind. Over time, concepts and skills integrate, like all the elements that go into a building, and the construction you hoped for is complete.

Welcome to MSU – Great Falls, where everyone – administration, staff, faculty, and students – is a work in progress. Think of yourself as “under construction.” We are all here to help you transform your future. Build out.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mary Sheehy Moe
Dean , Montana State University-
Great Falls College of Technology