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Welcome to ForUM, the e-newsletter for
University of
Montana staff, faculty and administrators.
ForUM is
published weekly during the academic year
except
during scheduled academic breaks.
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UM Makes Top Colleges List
UM was ranked 132nd out of 258 national universities
by the Washington Monthly in its annual college
rankings released this month. The independently
owned political magazine, which began ranking
colleges in 2005, judges schools based on social
mobility, research and service. UM ranked 196th,
143rd and 54th in the respective categories to earn its
overall ranking of 132.
According to Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of the
Washington Monthly, the publication uses statistics
compiled by the federal government and independent
organizations nationwide to determine its yearly
rankings. The rankings reflect what colleges are doing
for the country, not just what they can do for students,
he said.
"We appreciate very much this recognition of the work
the University does that benefits the students,
community and country," UM President George
Dennison said. "Too often the rankings have placed
more weight on the dollars expended rather than the
actual outcomes."
Washington Monthly Rankings
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Celebrate Visual, Performing Arts At UM
UM's College of Visual and Performing Arts will hold a
reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the
lobby of the Performing Arts and Radio/Television
Center to celebrate its name change from the School
of Fine Arts.
The college's new dean, Stephen Kalm, will be on
hand to greet alumni and friends and help inaugurate
two Esther England vocal enrichment and scholarship
funds. England, a mezzo soprano, Fulbright Scholar,
UM professor emerita of music and former associate
dean of the School of Fine Arts, taught voice at UM for
36 years.
A benefit concert for the Esther England funds --
"Gershwin & Friends" -- will be held later that day from
7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. The concert
features renowned mezzo soprano Michelle Berger, a
former student of England and 1971 UM graduate.
Tickets for the concert are $20 at the door. Goodwill
offerings also will be accepted at the event.
Berger also will give a master class from 5 to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the Music Recital Hall. The
class is open to the public.
For more information or for advance tickets for the
concert, call the UM School of Music at 243-6880 or
e-mail
griz.music@umontana.edu.
College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Esquire Writer-At-Large To Give Lecture
Esquire writer-at-large Chris Jones, a two-time winner
of the National Magazine Award for feature writing, will
give UM's T. Anthony Pollner Lecture on Monday, Oct.
12. Jones, UM School of Journalism's T. Anthony
Pollner Distinguished Professor
fall semester, will present "Accidents" at 7 p.m. in the
University Center Theater.
The event is free and open to the public.
Jones began writing for Esquire in 2002. His
story "Home," about three astronauts stranded on the
space station after the Columbia shuttle exploded,
won a National Magazine Award in 2005. It also was
expanded into a book, "Too Far From Home: A Story of
Life and Death in Space." Another story Jones
wrote, "The Things That Carried Him," about the return
of a dead soldier from Iraq, won a National Magazine
Award this year.
Jones teaches a course at UM in long-form narrative
nonfiction and advises the staff of the student
newspaper, the Montana
Kaimin.
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Mathematical sciences Professor Bharath
Sriraman gave the inaugural lecture titled "How
Do We Develop Mathematical Talent: An American
Perspective in Light of the National Mathematics
Advisory Panel Report" in the Distinguished Lecture
Series at the Bildung und Begabung
Wissenschaftszentrum Sept. 21 in Bonn, Germany.
Finn, Janet. 2009. "Love and Justice: A Silenced
Language of Integrated Practice?" Chapter in
Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work:
Toward a Critical Pluralism in Contemporary
Practice. (Ed.) William Borden. New York:
Columbia University Press. pp. 179-209.
UM
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