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Fall enrollment at the University of Montana fell 7.6 percent over last year, though the number of international students jumped 14 percent, school officials announced Friday. UM also marked gains in Graduate School enrollment.

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Seth Bodnar, who started work as UM’s 19th president in January, said a formal installation will be replaced by two days of events titled “Inauguration Weekend: A Celebration of Service.” Events will focus on the collective contributions that service brings to campus and beyond.

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Powerhouse scholars from the worlds of economics and poetry will each offer public lectures at the University of Montana on Monday, Sept. 24. The speakers are Lawrence Summers, one of the nation’s leading economists and the 71st U.S. secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration, and Elisa New, the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and creator of “Poetry in America,” a public television series.  

The University of Montana’s Department of Physics and Astronomy invites the public to its fall semester planetarium shows in the Payne Family Native American Center Star Gazing Room this month through December. The 50-minute shows will be offered at 6 and 7:30 p.m. on the following Fridays: Sept. 14 and 28; Oct. 12; Nov. 2, 16 and 30; and Dec. 14.

The University of Montana's College of Business emerged from this year's rankings as the best in the Big Sky Conference, and it improved its overall national standing from last year, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Larry Abramson, dean of the University of Montana’s School of Journalism, will become a special adviser to the provost starting Monday. The move was announced Friday amid speculation that the journalism dean’s position is being eliminated as part of the university’s ongoing reorganization.

The University of Montana will host three Vietnamese delegates who will present a special seminar on Monday, Sept. 10, about tourism, reforestation and human-wildlife conflicts in their country. “Conservation and Education in the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam” will be held at 4 p.m. in Social Science Building Room 344.

Dual enrollment allows students to take college courses while they are still enrolled in high school. Dual enrollment courses are offered on-site at more than 90 high schools across Montana, as well as on-campus at Montana University System institutions and online.