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University of
Montana staff, faculty and administrators.
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President Outlines UM Priorities In Address
President Dennison welcomed the campus
community to a new academic year during his annual
State of University address Friday, Aug. 22, in the
Montana Theatre.
Dennison began by introducing several new or
promoted members of UM's administrative team.
Among the many mentioned was Perry Brown, who
will serve a two-year appointment as interim
associate provost for graduate education; Christopher
Comer, who begins duties as dean of UM's College of
Arts and Sciences in January 2009; and Stephen
Kalm, who will serve as interim dean of the School of
Fine Arts during the University's national search to
replace Shirley Howell, who retired last spring.
The president then spoke in detail about UM's
priorities for the coming year. Central to those
priorities is student success: delivering quality
courses and programs through mediums appropriate
to identified needs; fully implementing transfer
policies adopted by the state Board of Regents; and
putting into action the Plan for Student Success, which
includes advising, retention and recruitment programs
designed to assure a successful initial year for
entering freshmen and address the needs of
sophomores and upper division students.
Other priorities include communicating with Gov. Brian
Schweitzer's administration and Montana's state
legislators as they prepare to convene in January for
the 2009 legislative session and educating the public
about the Six-Mill Levy that will appear on
the November ballot.
UM also will prepare for the Northwest Commission
on Colleges and Universities accreditation visit
scheduled for spring 2010, move forward with the
establishment of the Hamilton Higher Education
Center, complete the redesign of the University's
home pages, work to increase the number of science
and math teachers in Montana, and expand the
Campus Sustainability Program to reduce emissions
of greenhouse gases in alignment with Gov. Brian
Schweitzer's 20X10 Initiative.
State of the University Address
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President Dennison's Office Hours
Each semester, President Dennison welcomes
members of the campus community to meet with him
to discuss issues and topics of their choice.
The President's office hours for fall semester are:
- Wednesday, Aug. 27: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Tuesday, Sept. 16: 9-11 a.m.
- Monday, Sept. 22: 3-5 p.m.
- Wednesday, Oct. 1: 1-3 p.m.
- Friday, Oct. 17: 1-3 p.m.
- Thursday, Oct. 23: 9-11 a.m.
- Tuesday, Oct. 28: 8-10 a.m.
- Wednesday, Nov. 5: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Monday, Nov. 10: 3-5 p.m.
- Thursday, Dec. 11: 2-4 p.m.
Please call 243-2311 or e-mail
prestalk@umontana.edu to make an appointment
to meet with President Dennison during these times.
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Publications
Granath, Kim and Sue Samson. 2008. "Trend Setters:
Computers in the Commons Environment."
E-JASL:
The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special
Librarianship, 9(1).
Sriraman, Bharath. 2008. "Affect, Competition and
Collaboration: The Curious Case of KappAbel."
Review of Changing Views and Practices: A Study
of
the KappAbel Mathematics Competition. Research
report, Norwegian Center for Mathematics Education
& Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim. Mathematical Thinking & Learning: An
International Journal, 10(2):196-200.
Sriraman, Bharath (with others). 2008. "A Modeling
Perspective on the Teaching and Learning of
Mathematical Problem Solving." Mathematical
Thinking & Learning: An International Journal,
10(3):293-304.
Zoellner, Kate, Sue Samson, and Samantha Hines.
2008. "Continuing Assessment of Library Instruction
to Undergraduates: A General Education Course
Survey Research Project." College and Research
Libraries,
69(4):370-383.
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Liberal Studies Program Director Stewart
Justman will
be the keynote speaker at Science Day, a forum for the
exchange of scientific information sponsored by the
Food and Drug Administration Office of Clinical
Pharmacology Oct. 24 at the Shady Grove campus of
the University of Maryland. He will present "Finasteride
and Preventive Medicine." Justman is the author
of "Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate
Cancer Became a Medical Quandary," which explains
how finasteride, proven to dramatically reduce the
incidence of prostate cancer, was found to be also
associated with a distinctly higher rate of aggressive
cancer.
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