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Welcome to ForUM, the e-newsletter for
University of
Montana staff, faculty and administrators.
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UM Launches Redesigned Home Page
UM's new home page has something for everyone.
The redesigned site, launched in October, makes
navigation easier by filtering content for different users.
It features six audience pages -- Future Students,
Current Students, International, Faculty and Staff,
Alumni, and Friends and Family. Each audience page
provides content and links that are important to those
users. Web site visitors can set the default tab to bring
them back to their chosen audience page each time
they return.
A rotating series of photos and stories at the top of
each audience page gives UM a chance to share
some of the remarkable achievements of faculty,
staff and students, and to alert visitors to upcoming
events on campus.
The redesign also enhances the University's seven
topic pages: Academics, Administration, Athletics,
Campus Life, Employment, Libraries and Research.
Those pages were reorganized, and several now
include messages from top UM administrators.
One of the goals of the redesign is to attract
prospective students to UM. Currently, one-third of all
applications submitted to UM are completed online.
The new site allows those seeking admission to the
University to apply in just two clicks from the home
page.
"The new home page complex was a great
collaborative effort," said Becky Maier, chair of the
Home Page Subcommittee. "Stakeholders from all
audiences provided great feedback for their specific
pages. We added content that is a definite plus for
each audience based on their feedback."
UM Home Page
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Best Article Prize Goes To UM Professor
Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor of Western
History, has won a Vivian Paladin Best Article Prize
from Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
His award-winning 2008 article -- "Bringing Home All
the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade in the Early
American West, 1785-1825" -- is a seminal essay
about the early West of Thomas Jefferson's era. In the
article, Flores argues that the trade in wild and Indian
horses was one of the earliest economies in the
West, funneling western horses to the advancing
American frontier east of the Mississippi River.
"On the Southern Plains, horse trading was the
counterpart to the fur trade of the Northern Plains,
although the trade was in live animals," Flores
said. "Indians, Spaniards, Frenchmen and Americans
were all players."
The award is given annually by the magazine's
editorial board for the best article published in
Montana: The Magazine of Western History. It was
named in honor of Vivian Paladin, who helped put the
magazine on the national history map as editor during
the 1960s and '70s.
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Bookstore Event Supports Toy Drive
Members of the Montana Grizzlies football team,
coach Bobby Hauck and Monte will be at The
Bookstore at UM from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
12, to greet fans and help collect new unwrapped
children's toys and logo items for the Griz for Kids Toy
Drive.
The bookstore will be open until 9 p.m. and will offer a
special 20 percent discount on all logo merchandise.
Grizzlies and Monte will autograph purchases for the
public.
Sponsors of the event include UM and the Montana
Grizzlies in partnership with Max Media, ABC 23 and
Missoula Federal Credit Union. The Griz for Kids Toy
Drive is held in conjunction with 102.5 Mountain FM's
Mountain of Giving Toy Drive.
Toys will go to Mountain Home Montana, Head Start,
Early Head Start, Missoula Indian Center, Youth
Homes Inc., Watson Children's Shelter, Big Brothers
Big Sisters, YMCA and WORD. For more information,
call University Relations at 243-2522.
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Continuing Education Community & Professional
Services worked with the Arthur Carhart National
Wilderness Training Center to launch their new 
Ngai, Phyllis. 2008. "A Process Guide for Realizing
Indian Education for All: Lessons Learned from Lewis
& Clark Elementary School." 85 pp. 2,000 copies
published and distributed to Montana school districts
by the state Office of Public Instruction, Helena.
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