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University of
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Fall Semester Enrollment Nearly 15,000
It's official: UM has set another enrollment record. The
University has a total headcount of 14,921 this fall
semester, which is 714 more than a year ago. It's the
largest one-year enrollment jump in two decades.
The institution also set a new record for full-time
equivalent students at 12.757.73, which is 461.76
better than a year ago. (An FTE represents 15
undergraduate or 12 graduate semester credits.)
Most headcount enrollment gains occurred at COT,
which has 464 more students than a year ago.
However, those students are taking fewer classes, so
FTEs at COT actually declined by 61.4. UM's
main "mountain" campus had 250 more students
than last fall. However, the FTEs jumped dramatically
by 523.16, more than double the headcount increase.
"This result indicates that students on the mountain
campus have opted to carry more credits and have
successfully accessed classes," UM President
George Dennison said. "I applaud the efforts of the
faculty to accommodate student needs."
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Architect Reveals Center's Symbolism
UM's new Payne Family Native American Center is
draped in symbolism. The $8.6 million,
30,000-square-foot structure will be completed next
year.
The center boasts a circular translucent entrance
lobby atrium and gathering space with a canted roof
pitched toward the east. The roof contains a long,
slotted skylight that will admit the first rays of the rising
sun and a central oculus, which brings light down to
the center of the circle. At night the atrium's
translucent Fiberglas panels will let the building glow
like a tepee with an internal campfire.
What does it all mean? This is what the building's
lead architect Daniel Glenn, a Native American from
the Crow Tribe of Montana, had to say about the
distinctive entranceway: "The Lodge Rotunda, or
atrium, is symbolic of the tepee lodge -- with its canted
walls, eastern entrance and circular form -- and
internally the sun dance lodge -- with 12 vertical poles.
The east-facing entrance canopy symbolizes a lifted
entrance flap welcoming all who come, and the
12-sided structure forms a circle representing the 12
tribes of Montana and the sacred circle of life."
When completed in January or February 2010, the
Native American Center will house UM's Department
of Native American Studies, American Indian Student
Services and related campus programming under
one roof. It will be the first building of its kind on any
U.S. university campus.
Read the Full News Release
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UM's Gridiron History In Football Vault
Today, UM boasts an elite college football program
and is this millennium's winningest Division I
program in the country. The road to the top was a
difficult one, paved with pitfalls and detours, and after
a humble and often disappointing beginning, the
program has endured and prospered.
Mick Holien, the longtime voice of the Grizzlies, recalls
that long journey to the top in the new book "The
University of Montana Football Vault®: The History of
the Grizzlies," taking readers from the first step -- and
the first victory over archrival Montana State in 1897 --
to today, when the Grizzlies regularly contend for the
national championship.
The book follows the road from Teddy the bear doing
a cakewalk on the sidelines in 1904 and Wild Bill
Kelly, the Hall of Fame quarterback, to Jack
Swarthout's two Camellia Bowl teams, Don Read and
the magical year of '95, and the current reign under
head football coach Bobby Hauck.
The 144-page hardcover 12-by-10-inch book with
slipcase sells for $49.95. It is available at bookstores
throughout Montana or can be ordered on the College
Vault Books Web site.
College Vault Books
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John Warner To Launch UM Program
UM's Climate Change Studies Program, offering the
nation's first interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in
climate change, will launch with a keynote address by
former U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy John
Warner. Warner will present "National Security and
Climate Change" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.
15, in Urey Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to
the public.
A distinguished defense expert and veteran of
three wars, Warner joined Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(I-Conn.) in 2006 to co-sponsor the Climate Security
Act,
the only climate change bill passed by a Senate
committee. Warner completed his fifth consecutive
term as a senator from Virginia on Jan. 3, 2009.
Retired U.S. Navy Adm. John B. Nathman will join
Warner at the event. Nathman is a member of the
Military Advisory Board of CNA, a nonprofit research
organization that operates the Center for Naval
Analyses and the Institute for Public Research. In May,
CNA's Military Advisory Board published a
groundbreaking report titled "Powering America's
Defense: Energy and the Risk to National Security."
Warner's talk is part of the
Pew Project on National Security, Energy and
Climate, an initiative of the Pew Environment
Group to highlight the critical links between national
security, energy independence, the economy and
climate change.
UM Climate Change Studies Program
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Curator, Producer To Speak At UM
Cyma Rubin, curator of the exhibition "Capture the
Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," will speak at
UM on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in conjunction with a
screening of the award-winning documentary film
based on the exhibition, "Moment of Impact: Stories of
the Pulitzer Prize Photographs." The event begins at 7
p.m. in the University Center Theater and is free and
open to the public.
Rubin is a producer, director, writer and president of
Business of Entertainment Inc. She produced and
directed "Moment of Impact," which received the 1999
Emmy and Telly awards for best documentary.
Rubin did the original research for the
exhibition "Pulitzer Prize Photographs," which opened
in Tokyo in 1998. In 2000 she curated, designed and
produced the first American exhibition of "Capture the
Moment" at the Newseum in New York City. The
traveling exhibition of Pulitzer photographs, currently at
the Montana Museum of Art & Culture and Gallery of
Visual Arts at UM, is updated annually.
Rubin's latest exhibition, "The American Soldier: A
Photographic Tribute from the Civil War to the War in
Iraq," which she curated and produces, covers nine
wars. It opened in 2007 to rave reviews and is now
being exhibited throughout the United States.
Montana Museum of Art & Culture
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Artist Relates World War II POW Experiences
When Ben Steele volunteered in 1940 for the Army Air
Corps, he didn't know that he was destined to spend
1,244 days as a prisoner of war.
Steele, who was born and raised in Roundup, was at
Clark Field on the Philippine island of Luzon serving
as a dispatcher and on the ground crew Dec. 7, 1941,
when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. After a
99-day battle for Bataan that ended on April 9, 1942,
he became one of more than 76,000 sick and starving
prisoners of the Japanese who underwent the
grueling 66-mile Bataan Death March.
Steele is a protagonist of the book "Tears in
the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March
and Its Aftermath" by Michael and Elizabeth M.
Norman. The book features his sketches that
document the horrors of the experiences of World War
II POWs.
Steele will talk about his time as a World War II POW
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his art depicting the experience at 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 20, at Fact & Fiction in The Bookstore at UM. The
presentation, hosted by the Montana Museum of Art
& Culture, is free and open to the public. Free parking
will be available after 5 p.m. in lots near the University
Center.
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New Fall IT Short Courses Available
The fall 2009 Information Technology Short Course
training program is now in full force. Course topics
include Banner, Blackboard, Business Services, MS
Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word),
Operational Efficiency and Web Tools.
Two new classes have recently been added to the
schedule:
- Creating Tests and Managing Grades in
Blackboard: Robert Squires, instructional
designer, Continuing Education. Participants will
investigate the use of Excel to create items that
can be automatically uploaded into tests or surveys
and look at how to tally and weigh grades using the
Gradebook feature of Blackboard.
- Facilitating Online Discussions in
Blackboard: Marlene Zentz, instructional
designer, Continuing Education and Human
Resource Services. Emphasizes the
importance of building community and creating
genuine presence in online course discussions.
Session is geared toward all instructors, regardless
of background experience in moderating online
discussions.
Information about all IT short courses and registration
is available on the Information Technology Web site.
Those who have questions can call Kathy Garramone,
IT training coordinator, at 243-5362.
Information Technology
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Publications
McKinney, Matthew J. and Shawn Johnson. 2009.
Working Across Boundaries: People, Nature, and
Regions. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy. 176 pp.
Mildrexler, D.J., M. Zhao and S.W. Running.
2009. "Testing a MODIS Global Disturbance Index
across North America." Remote Sensing of
Environment, 113:2103-2117.
Sriraman, Bharath and Nick Haverhals.
2009. "Lakatos-Hersh-Ernest: Triangulating
Philosophy-Mathematics-Mathematics Education."
Preface to Ernest's reflections on theories of learning
in Theories of Mathematics Education: Seeking
New Frontiers. (Eds.) B. Sriraman and L. English.
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Science. pp. 35-38.
Sriraman, Bharath and Matt Roscoe (co-authors).
2009. "Politicizing Mathematics Education. Has
Politics Gone Too Far? Or Not Far Enough?" In
Theories of Mathematics Education: Seeking New
Frontiers. (Eds.) B. Sriraman and L. English.
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Science. pp. 621-638.
Sriraman, Bharath, Hillary VanSpronsen and Nick
Haverhals. 2009. "On Proof and Certainty -- Some
Educational Implications." In Theories of
Mathematics Education: Seeking New Frontiers.
(Eds.) B. Sriraman and L. English. Berlin/Heidelberg:
Springer Science. pp. 369-380.
Winkler, Celia. 2009. "Feminist Sociological Theory."
Historical Developments and Theoretical
Approaches in Sociology in Encyclopedia of
Life Support Systems. (Ed.) Charles Crothers.
Developed under the auspices of UNESCO.
Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers.
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Anthropology and Native American studies
Professor
Neyooxet Greymorning delivered the Peace
Lecture
last month at Southern Cross University in Lismore,
Australia. The lecture, titled "Indigenous Perspectives
on Peace, Power and Equity," was delivered on
International Peace Day, Sept. 21. Greymorning also
held a seminar on language restoration and
maintenance Sept. 22 for community members of the
Krurungal Aboriginal Centre. On Sept. 23,
Greymorning gave a seminar
titled "Problems with What People Think They Know
about How to Teach Native Languages" for a graduate
sociolinguistics class at Bond University,
Queensland, Australia.
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