The GLI Weekly is Here!

Welcome back and best of luck with spring semester!

Important Reminders...

Get ready for the spring semester and check your registration for the following:

• 1st-year students: GBLD 110: Global Challenges and Leadership (in person or online)
• 3-year track students in their first year: GBLD 110 and GBLD 220: Models of Leadership
• 2nd-year students: GBLD 220: Models of Leadership
• 3rd-year students: If you’re out on your experiences, have a terrific time! If you just returned, welcome back! Returning scholarship recipients: don’t forget to submit your blog post, submit your 3 photos or a video, and submit your thank-you note. Check your inbox for details.
• 4th-year students: GBLD 499 (1 credit)
• Questions? Contact us or schedule an advising appointment via Navigate.

Leadership Opportunity!

All applications are due on or before next Friday, January 24th (1/24/24)!

Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of State, Stevens Initiative, and the Aspen Institute, the Game Changers Virtual Exchange Program brings together undergraduate students from the United States and pre-service teachers from diverse communities in Israel for interactive joint learning and facilitated online exchange focused on developing and applying creative negotiation skills in their schools and communities. In paired exercises, group dialogues, and team-based project work, participants develop intercultural understanding and global awareness while acquiring practical pedagogical and professional tools based on a principled, problem-solving methodology for negotiation developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project.

Students completing the program will receive certificates of completion and will be invited to enroll in the Department of State’s International Exchange Alumni Network and the Localized international professional development platform.

Save the Dates!

• UM Democracy Summit: Thursday, April 24
• UMCUR: UM Conference for Undergraduate Research: Friday, April 25
• GLI Celebration: Monday, April 28

Summer Sessions!

The online application portal for FLBS Summer Session 2025 is now open!

• Bio Station summer courses are field-based and experiential. Students spend the summer gaining hands-on ecological experience in the beautiful outdoors of Northwest Montana. This is a fantastic opportunity for college students (undergraduates and graduates) to learn something new or grow their knowledge. This experience helps students be more competitive for internships and the post-college workforce.
• Why the Flathead Lake Bio Station?
• Gain skills in: scientific equipment, research projects, field work, and communication
• Place based learning includes field trips and overnight camping trips throughout the Flathead Valley and Glacier National Park
• Collaborate with world class scientists (instructors and Station staff) and students from across the country
• Round out traditional lecture courses with field experience to broaden your collegiate experience
• Get your foot in the door with gained experience to open future career opportunities
• Low student-faculty ratio, great facilities, live on the shores of Flathead Lake
• Credits transfer easily to universities across the country
• How to Apply
• Visit our website at: flbs.umt.edu/education and make an account
• Complete all sections of the online application including a Medical History Form and Transcripts
• Submit your application before February 2 for a $100 discount
• New this year - Discounts!
• We are offering 20% off additional courses. Ex: take two courses and the second will be discounted 20%. Each subsequent course will be 20% each
• Seminars in Ecology is 50% off. Add it to another course during the first four weeks of Summer Session
• Scholarships!
• Eligible students will receive: $450 per credit in scholarships (until all funding is allocated)
• Students can apply for scholarship funding by submitting a scholarship statement with their online application and ONE letter of recommendation
• Since 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station of the University of Montana has offered immersive summer field ecology courses with aquatic and terrestrial focuses that emphasize direct field research and interactions with natural resource professionals. Last year, we celebrated our 125th Anniversary!
• These rigorous, hands-on courses meet Federal, Montana Board of Regents, and University of Montana regulatory and policy requirements for contact hours and reliably transfer to other colleges and universities.

Free Lecture!

Former Griz and NFL football player Levi Horn presents "Medicine Game: How football helped Levi overcome generational trauma and his education empowers him to fight for Native Youth around the country."

His free motivational talks are prior to both N7-inspired basketball games. The talks will take place on January 18th at 12:30pm and February 1st at 2:30pm. He will be speaking in the Adams Center West Auxiliary Gym.

Special thanks to their sponsors: University of Montana Admissions Office, University of Montana School of Public Health & Community Services, University of Montana Native American Center of Excellence, and Kyiyo Student Association.

Volunteer Opportunity!

Writing Coaches of Montana is excited to offer a new coach workshop on Thursday, January 23rd, 5:30-8:30pm via Zoom. 

We welcome volunteers from all backgrounds to join our coaching community in supporting student literacy in grades 4-12. We coach on assignments across content areas, so we want to recruit coaches from a variety of academic disciplines. 

Interested? Have questions? Email Cassie Sheets, Executive Director, with questions: cassie@writingcoachesofmontana.org. 

Spring 2025 Classes

• ARTZ 391: Socially Engaged Art
• Socially engaged art is collaborative, collective, and participatory. It’s also defined as a practice that involves people as the medium or material of the work. This course will explore socially engaged art through a myriad of angles. We will look at current definitions and historical roots of socially engaged practice, research principles and practices, interrogate personal identities prior to working, engage in service-learning, and make socially engaged artwork. While Socially Engaged Art is a studio course, students will be assigned weekly readings and projects that include text, community discussion, and studio work.

• MUSI 391:01: Broke and Brilliant: NYC's Music and Art Movements in the 1970s with musician John Wicks.
• This is a 3-credit course: MUSI 391:01 - ST: Broke & Brilliant, CRN 34773. (image in folder) The class dives into the music and art scenes of New York City during the 1970s, when artists were creating groundbreaking work amidst one of the city’s most financially turbulent periods. It explores how financial scarcity can sometimes spark creative brilliance, with a special focus on the role of music, art, and culture during this transformative time. Students will also be challenged to think about the intersection of economics and creativity in art-making, and how movements like punk, hip-hop, free jazz, and tropicalia were fueled by both innovation and necessity.
• This class is taught by John Wicks – drummer, composer, and educator. Wicks was a founding member of Fitz and The Tantrums and has played on recordings and written songs with Bruno Mars, Cee Lo Green, David Byrne, RZA, George Clinton, and more. He is currently helping to spearhead the new Pop/Commercial Music Program with Dr. Bryan Kostors. In addition to Broke and Brilliant, Wicks teaches the following courses, which are also open to all majors: Songwriting, Pop/Commercial Music Ensembles, Drum Set Lessons, Drum Set Group Masterclasses, and Designing the Show.