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Jessica Cejnar / Yesterday @ 4:40 p.m. / Education DNHS Principal Hopes New Schedule With Fewer Classes, More Time With Teachers, Will Help Students Get Back on Track After COVID Del Norte High School principal Alison Eckart unveiled a new schedule that focuses on fewer classes, but more time with teachers. File photo: Andrew Goff Citing an increase in students with failing grades or who are “off-track to graduate,” Del Norte High School principal Alison Eckart unveiled a new schedule that will, hopefully, make up for what her students lost dur...

Click on arrow at right to view additional images (4 of 4) Close-up views of the “local student feed,” “instructor feed,” and a shared screen during Henry Leitner’s hybrid computer-science class. Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education.  On the first Wednesday afternoon in April, Daniel Lord Smail divides the students in General Education 1044, “Deep History,” into pairs, to brainstorm about the characteristics of their families’ traditional meals. It’s a perfectly routine exercise for this highly participatory course, focused today on the ...

New for Summer 2021 New this year, Montana Western has created a three-week face to face session in May called the “X-Block”. We are offering six new and exciting courses that epitomize what Experience One is all about. The X-Block is meant to provide a fun learning environment before students leave campus for the summer. The second change to summer is our standard ten-week session is now split into two five- week sessions to offer more flexibility of our online summer offerings. You might consider taking a summer course to get caught up or to get ahead. Dates Summer Session B: May 24- J...

The Undergraduate Council voted to endorse a pair of statements during its Sunday night meeting — one supporting a petition to grant tenure to Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel R. West ’74, and another to condemn statements made by Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer. The first piece of legislation demands the University “reopen pathways for Professor West’s tenure and further commit to advancing racial justice in substantive ways.” West recently threatened to leave Harvard for the second time after he said the University dismissed his request t...

University offers more flexibility on courses students can take as pass/fail