GREAT FALLS — On a breezy October day at the Montana State University Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing campus in Great Falls, nursing students, faculty and their supporters gathered to celebrate a long-awaited transformation.

Nearly 300 attendees cheered as MSU President Brock Tessman, nursing dean Sarah Shannon, donor Mark Jones and other key advocates gave remarks and cut a ribbon in front of the new MSU nursing education building in Great Falls on Monday, Oct. 6.

The event marked the official grand opening of the building, the first of five new MSU nursing education buildings across the state to open. Nursing education buildings on MSU’s other nursing campuses in Bozeman, Billings, Kalispell and Missoula are under construction and expected to open in 2026 and 2027. All together

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