​COUNSELOR UPDATE 2025
IN-PERSOn

when

DATE:   Wednesday, OCTOBER 29, 2025

Time   |  10:00 am - 3:30 pm

after the event - resources

HELPFUL RESOURCES, handouts, & LINKS
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​A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS & SPONSORS

Thank you to our sponsors and partners for their support of this event! We simply could not offer this annual program without their amazing team efforts and commitment to students and Montana education.

WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP STUDENTS!
  • MONTANA COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
  • MONTANA COUNSELORS
  • MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ADMINISTRATORS | MASFAA | www.MASFAAOnline.org
  • GEAR UP | www.MUS.edu/GEARUP
  • MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | OCHE | www.MUS.edu
  • OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION | OPI | www.OPI.MT.gov
  • REACH HIGHER MONTANA | www.ReachHigherMontana.org​
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | www.collegefund.org
  • MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY - CAREER LAB | www.lmi.mt.gov
  • BIG FUTURE  |  COLLEGE BOARD  |  https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org
  • MONTANA POST SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNTIES COUNCIL - MPSEOC | www.MontanaColleges.com

day of the event

Live chat, handouts, links, and more!
  • Please stay muted the entire time and turn off your camera view. 
  • Please name the campus or person you are asking the question in your live chat post.  Thank you!
  • This link is only used for asking questions and live chat.  Thank you!
  • Post your picture from today on social media!  Show your support of students. 
  • Email a copy to:  [email protected], and we will share a gallery from today's photos!
  • Use #MontanaStudents & #MPSEOC.

confirmation - SITE LOCATIONS & linked details

Click the sites below for more information for each location:  event agenda, parking, room location, site contact, etc.  Thank you!

Billings
​Bozeman
GLASGOW
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
KALISPELL 
Miles City
Missoula

schedule of events

Monday, October 28, 2024
​|  Live Counselor Update Sessions  
  • For Counselors 
  • 9 In-Person Sites Across Montana - Statewide Presentation
  • In-Person Sites Include:  Kalispell, Missoula, Helena, Havre, Great Falls, Bozeman, Billings, Miles City, Glasgow. *Each site will host lunch & continental breakfast.
  • Time:  10:00 am - 3:30pm
    • ​10:00 a.m.     Check-in & Welcome  (Coffee, juice, and rolls are provided.) 
    • 10:10 a.m.     Welcome from MPSEOC  |  Montana Colleges
    • 10:15 a.m.     MONTANA CAMPUS UPDATES 
    • 11:15 a.m.     Break (The exact Break time will be flexible due to the presenting layout.) 
    • 11:30 a.m.     MONTANA CAMPUS UPDATES
    • 12:15 p.m.     Break, Lunch, & Discussion (Lunch provided.)
    • 12:45 p.m.     MONTANA CAMPUS UPDATES  
    • 1:30 p.m.        Important Montana Announcements
    • 3:00 p.m.   Questions, Wrap Up, & Evaluations​​
  • Counselor Prize Winner & Annual Award Announced.​​
  • ​*Times and events are subject to possible variations.

what to bring?

YOUR QUESTIONS

  • BEFORE THE COUNSELOR UPDATE  |  We have an live questions during the event to submit your questions during the Counselor Update.  If you have any questions now before the event, please simply click the button below to ask your questions now before the event.   We will address these during the live event.  Thank you for participating!  

 
​YOUR LAPTOP, IPAD, PHONE, ETC.  |  Live Questions Group

  • DURING THE COUNSELOR UPDATE  |  Back again!  We are excited to offer a “live” interactive online chat for you to post your questions and have the institutions address them throughout this event.  If you would like to participate in this online, interactive chat, please bring you own laptop, ipad, phone, etc. to access this group online throughout the event.  Simply connect to the "live Zoom session" link in the confirmation page to access the link to join.  
  • These sessions are hosted via Zoom Technology.   After registering for the Zoom Session, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link / information about joining the meeting to post questions. 
  • After the event, we will email out the final overall list of questions and answers shared during the live event.  Thank you for participating!  

 
​share your feedback

  • Share your feedback.  Help us invite more colleges, universities, military branches, and agencies to your college fair!​


​SAFETY & covid-19 information

  • ​We ask you to follow the requirements of the site you are attending. Live confirmation details will be posted in the confirmation packet, and we ask all attendees to check for up-to-the moment updates/changes for the site you are attending. Thank you for helping keep everyone safe. 

OPI REnewal Unit Credit offered

  •  We will be offering full OPI Renewal Unit Credit for your time attending these sessions.  We will be taking sign-ins at each site and also asking you to fill out a final credit form as part of the process.   
  • More details will be shared at the event.  Thank you!

do you still need to register?

Registration Deadline:  October 11, 2024 - Closed. 
​*Please contact us to see if there is still space @ [email protected]

​A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS & SPONSORS

Thank you to our sponsors and partners for their support of this event! We simply could not offer this annual program without their amazing team efforts and commitment to students and Montana education.

WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP STUDENTS!
  • MONTANA COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
  • MONTANA COUNSELORS
  • MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ADMINISTRATORS | MASFAA | www.MASFAAOnline.org
  • GEAR UP | www.MUS.edu/GEARUP
  • MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | OCHE | www.MUS.edu
  • OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION | OPI | www.OPI.MT.gov
  • REACH HIGHER MONTANA | www.ReachHigherMontana.org​
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | www.collegefund.org
  • MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY - CAREER LAB | www.lmi.mt.gov
  • BIG FUTURE  |  COLLEGE BOARD  |  https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org
  • MONTANA POST SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNTIES COUNCIL - MPSEOC | www.MontanaColleges.com

wE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THIS
YEAR'S COUNSELOR UPDATE & events! 
PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS @ 406.531.3531 OR [email protected]