Other Learning Opportunities
Continuing Education Units (CEU) and Office of Public Instruction (OPI) Renewal Units
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Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through Montana State University Continuing Education courses, conferences, and workshops. CEUs meet professional development requirements for professionals in careers such as engineering, child care, medicine, counseling and finance.
Office of Public Instruction (OPI) Renewal Units
Earn Office of Public Instruction (OPI) Renewal Units through Montana State University Continuing Education courses, conferences, and workshops. OPI accepts the units as part of the re-certification requirements for practicing teachers.
Certified Public Manager Program and Public Service Academy
The Montana Certified Public Manager® (CPM) Program
University of Montana CPM Program
The program is based in the Baucus Institute Department of Public Administration and Policy. The CPM Program curriculum is determined by the National Certified Public Manager® Consortium, which is the accrediting body for the Montana Certified Public Manager® Program.
The purpose of the Montana Certified Public Manager® Program is to provide an in-depth, comprehensive, competency-based, nationally certified program for all managers from state and local government organizations, nonprofits, universities, and those from business and industry who desire this training and certification.
Montana CPM demonstrates this by:
- Providing high-quality instruction which enhances participant performance in competencies identified as essential to managerial effectiveness in MT state and local government.
- Using multiple sources of feedback to build participant self-awareness concerning the impact of their own behavioral style, values, beliefs, and competencies on managerial performance.
- Facilitating participants’ applications of learning on the job to improve effectiveness of MT state agencies/universities, local government organizations and other participants.
Public Service Academy
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This training will happen in August of 2025.
Registration Coming Soon.
About
What: Training sessions by experts in the field
Where/When: August 2025 at the University of Montana.
Program Fee: Regular Rate: $220, University of Montana students and employees: $150
Group Rate: Register ten (10) or more attendees to receive the group rate of $130 per person.
Hotel Block Info
DoubleTree by Hilton
Contact Lily Soper, Events and Marketing Coordinator for the Alexander Blewett III School of Law, at lily.soper@mso.umt.edu by July 27, 2024, to access the discounted rate.