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The Environmental Sciences Department is dedicated to educating the next generation of environmental scientists, educators and leaders. Our classrooms have no walls. Instead, you will learn your trade primarily in the mountains and valleys of southwest Montana. You will use this natural lab to work on real projects that make a difference in the quality of the environment. Imagine yourself studying streams to save fluvial Arctic grayling from extinction. Snowshoeing into alpine lakes to study climate change. Climbing mountains to study geology in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Ima...

Jobs at the University of Montana Western The University of Montana Western is a dynamic, innovative, undergraduate university with over 60 full-time faculty and 1,500 students. It is located in Dillon, Montana in the scenic Rocky Mountains and has been awarded numerous top national rankings for delivering high quality, affordable education. Montana Western is the only public four-year college in the nation offering Experience One (X1), experiential learning delivered on the block schedule. Class sizes are small and students take a single course at a time, three hours each day for 18 days, be...

Debbie Seacrest, Ph.D. Debbie is interested in using projects to connect mathematics to other disciplines and using games to teach mathematical concepts. Their research background includes using games as a teaching tool to let students discover mathematical ideas organically, and they strive to use these ideas in their own classroom. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Liz Wright, M.Ed. Liz’s research interests include studying self-efficacy, academic performance, mindset, and self-regulation in developmental mathematics students. She finds the connection between these concepts fascinating and uses her w...

Experience One engages students and faculty in actively exploring the knowledge, purposes, and practices in every field of study. The Equine Studies Department at UMW offers the only Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Horsemanship in the U.S., with options in equine management, psychology, science, business and instruction. The courses taught in the Equine Studies Department combine real-world experience and the knowledge of working with a horse’s mind. In this department you will be challenged to use the skill of problem-solving and also be taught the ability to succeed in the equine industry....

Bethany Blankenship, Ph.D. The primary architect of Stretch English, a course in college composition designed to help basic writers, Blankenship uses classroom time to build confident writers. She believes the best learning happens when students are fully engaged in activities like small group discussions, peer editing, and service learning projects. PROFESSOR Alan Weltzien, Ph.D. Alan Weltzien is a published editor, nonfiction writer, and poet. He has published dozens of articles, two chapbooks, and nine books, most recently Thinking Continental (2017, co-editor) and The Comfort Pathway (201...