Community Invited to Missoula College Building Plan Open House

The open house will give community members the opportunity to ask questions and learn the history of how the location was selected, see where the buildings will be located and how it fits into the South Campus Master Plan, and learn how the golf course can be reconfigured.

"This proposed building will be an exceptional asset for Missoula College students," said Engstrom. "We want the community to be engaged in and supportive of this effort." Read more

UM has received a $297,731 grant from the Department of Justice to improve evaluation and implementation of a comprehensive student assault response and prevention program.

The Office of Violence Against Women grant will be used to expand, reorganize and streamline UM's approach to addressing interpersonal violence. The grant will fund a full-time director of student assault programming position for three years and provide support for a variety of UM programs and services. Read more

Maile Meloy, Helena native and author of UM's First-Year Reading Experience book "Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It," will visit campus to present a lecture and host a student forum Oct. 17-18.

The lecture, titled "Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It," will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the George and Jane Dennison Theatre. Meloy will discuss how she came to write the book, her writing process and the role Montana has played in her writing. The student forum will be held at 11:10 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, in the University Center Theater. Read more

The National Native Children's Trauma Center based at UM received a $2.4 million grant to continue work with Native American youth who experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The grant is a competitive refunding of the center from the Substance Abuse and Mental Services Health Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Though the center is based in the UM College of Education's Institute for Educational Research and Service, it provides trainings nationwide on mental health services that are particularly effective in rural settings and schools. The new award will expand the trainings to include Indian Health Services clinicians, tribal health departments, child welfare agencies and reservation schools.

IERS Director Rick van den Pol said the grant will provide training for professionals who serve Native youth through the center's outreach programs and through partnerships with tribes. Read more