2008 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

2008 Highlights

Garon Smith, Montana Professor of the Year

Garon Smith, one of UM’s most popular educators, was named 2008 Montana Professor of the Year by two national organizations that promote teaching excellence – the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Smith is a professor of chemistry and enthuses his college students and Montana kids of all ages by donning the wizard’s cape and cap of his alternate persona, “G. Wiz,” and instructing them with fiery tricks and humorous incantations.

Jakki Mohr, First Female Regents Professor

The Montana Board of Regents awarded UM marketing Professor Jakki Mohr with the university system’s highest honor in November – the rank of Regents Professor. Mohr, who joined the UM School of Business Administration in 1997, received the award and a standing ovation in the University Center Ballroom. She has received a number of state and national teaching awards and is the author of the groundbreaking textbook, “Marketing of High-Technology Products and Innovations.”

UM Makes Community Service Honor Roll

The Corporation for National and Community Service named UM to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. In congratulating the honored schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said, “Americans rely on our higher education system to prepare students for citizenship and the work force. We look to institutions like these … to shape the civic, democratic and economic future of our country.”

Stan Kimmitt Remembered

Joseph Stanley Kimmitt, former U.S. Senate secretary, aide to U.S. Sen. Mike Mansfield, and a Lewistown native and UM alumnus, was remembered this year on campus and in Washington, D.C. UM’s inaugural J. Stanley Kimmitt Memorial Lecture on Public Service was presented in April by Bob Kerrey, prominent statesman, war hero and university president. The first J. Stanley Kimmitt Public Service Internship recipient, Lucas Hamilton of Havre, spent the summer working in Washington for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Robert Kimmitt, Stan Kimmitt’s oldest son, was on hand in May to deliver the speech for UM’s 111th Commencement exercises.

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