Educational Leadership Research in the State-Wide Conversation
Analyzing 15 years of student test data, a UM study revealed that students in four-day districts lag behind their five-day peers, with elementary math scores falling as much as 14 percentage points and reading scores up to 7 points lower.
The researchers, Drs. Erica Allen, Bill McCaw, John Matt, and Shirley Tang, also found that promised cost savings often don't materialize. Teacher pay, transportation, and other expenses stay the same, or even increase.
Transformative Learning in Berlin
91次元 Social Work students recently completed a 10-day immersive study abroad course: Social Justice & Integration – German Perspectives on Refugee Resettlement. Developed and led by Professors Kat Werner and Zak Reimer - both UMSSW graduates and practicing social workers in the U.S. and Berlin - the course explores refugee and migration policy through a transatlantic lens.
Students engaged directly with German and EU policymakers, frontline social workers, NGOs, and refugee advocates. Workshops with a Center for Deliberations facilitated critical discussions on democracy, populism, and values-based dialogue. Visits to refugee arrival centers run by the State Office for Refugee Affairs and the German Red Cross highlighted frontline service delivery. Site visits to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Topography of Terror, and the Documentation Centre for Displacement deepened students’ understanding of Germany’s historical reckoning (Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung) and its ongoing work around integration and democracy.
As one student reflected: “Themes in Berlin’s refugee crisis closely mirror U.S. debates. We can learn so much about cultural humility, diversity, and engaging with sensitive topics by looking to successful models abroad.”
Assistant State Climatologist named to National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Future of Drought
Dr. Zachary Hoylman (Assistant State Climatologist at the Montana Climate Office) has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences committee on the Future of Drought in the United States.
This honor reflects Hoylman’s recent state and national leadership developing the Montana Drought Dashboard and on drought in non-stationary climates, which is driving new programming by NOAA NIDIS and major discussions by the USDA on federal programs designed to support producers during drought time periods.
UM in the news
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, Missoula Current
features ElevateU, Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 18, 2024
features Stephanie Geyer, UM AVP for Marketing and Brand Strategy
, Jenny Petty, VP for Marketing Communications, Experience and Engagement
Leslie Web, UM VP for Student Success and Enrollment Management, cited in Hechinger Report article, , republished on NPR as
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- Pippa Browde, Law
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- Rodney Coates, Miami University and Lee Banville, Journalism
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- Justin Angle, Management and Marketing
- Erik Guzik, Management and Marketing
, Keith Jakob, Accounting and Finance
, Keith Jakob, Accounting and Finance
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- Christopher T. Migliaccio, Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- James Tuttle, Sociology
- Peter H. Koehn (Professor Emeritus, Political Science), Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai (International Development Studies program and Social Work), Juha I. Uitto
- Mark Sundeen, Environmental Studies
- Mark Sundeen, Environmental Studies
- Dave Emmons, History
- Anya Jabour, History
- Anya Jabour, History
- Tobin Miller Shearer, History
- Kyle Volk, History
- Soazig Le Bihan, Philosophy
by Christopher Preston, Philosophy, won the !
- Bryan Cochran, Psychology
Anisa Goforth, Psychology, and colleagues published .
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, Voices of Montana podcast, February 14, 2025
, NBC Montana, December 21, 2024
, Montana Free Press
features John Sommers-Flanagan, Counseling
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features the work of Will Rice, Society and Conservation, as well as Steve McCool, Professor Emeritus, and UM Alumna Iree Wheeler
- article on Northern AgNet features Kelsey Jencso, W.A. Franke Endowed Professor of Hydrology at the 91次元 and the Montana State Climatologist
- Will Rice, Society and Conservation
- features Chad Bishop, Wildlife Biology