State Profile For Montana

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State Director

Dr. Mary Sheehy Moe, Deputy Commissioner of 2-Year Programs
Montana University System
46 North Last Chance Gulch, PO Box 203201
Helena, MT 59620-3201

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://www.opi.state.mt.us/CTE/index.html

Postsecondary: http://www.mus.edu/wd/

Mission

To present cohesive direction and leadership for postsecondary education in Montana; to clearly demonstrate the key role that workforce development plays in the economic future of our state; to enable and assist our constituents in developing the academic, technical and social skills needed in the pursuit of lifelong learning and success.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools: 167
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses: 0
Number of Students in Public High Schools: 47,340
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 19,412
Number of Public Community Colleges: 17
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges: 9,134
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 5,811
Perkins Funds Received: $5,896,545

Number of Public Community Colleges data available on postsecondary website.

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency: Board of Regents and the Montana University System
Agency Administering Secondary CTE: Office of Public Instruction
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE: Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE: Perkins Advisory Board
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE: Two-Year Education Council which receives formal approval from the Board of Regents

CTE Funding: Non-Perkins

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Local Postsecondary Funding: N/A

State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of Deputy Commissioner of Two Year Education. The Director position is a career position that reports to the Commissioner of Higher Education. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are all two-year institutions, the distribution of Perkins funds, and Workforce Development Community Colleges.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays little to no role in high school reform efforts. Within Montana, there are two educational agencies in Montana: secondary and postsecondary and CTE’s collaboration is only occasional.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Montana believes career Clusters provide an infrastructure for a seamless educational transition between all learner levels. The state also hopes Career Clusters can provide a tool for career guidance, a platform to organize sequences of courses around, and a way to improve the quality of CTE. For the past three years, the State has sponsored a summer Career Clusters Institute, that brings together teachers and administrators at the secondary and postsecondary levels to explore and more fully develop the Career Clusters model that is being implemented in Montana.


Building upon and adapting the work of the States’ Career Clusters initiative, the Partner Agencies will both adopt the Montana Career Clusters framework (using 6 Career Fields, 16 Clusters, and 81 Pathways (#8 Career Clusters Model).

Implementation levels of programs of study