A Kaimin Q&A with UM President Seth Bodnar

The Kaimin Cast

It’s been a hell of a year at the University of Montana. Over the last two semesters, students protested misogynistic and racist professors, worked to oust law school leadership for bungled Title IX complaints, set record attendance at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, boosted UM to its first overall enrollment increase in a decade and shook off the dust of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UM President Seth Bodnar, a corporate executive and special forces commander-turned-education administrator, was at the center of many of the issues that mattered to students this year. In a February opinion piece he wrote, “Our job as leaders in higher education is not to quell dissent or resolve debate, but rather to sponsor that spark within our students.”

In that spirit, Bodnar agreed to sit for an interview with the Kaimin, answering our questions and questions solicited from students on the Oval and in the University Center.

Catch full transcript of this interview online at www.montanakaimin.com/the_kaimin_cast

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