Digital Commons Network^™

University Of Montana Staff Senate Bylaws October 2025, University Of Montana--Missoula. Staff Senate

University of Montana Staff Senate Governing Documents

Revised Articles and Bylaws of University of Montana Staff Senate. Passed October 9,2025.

Major changes include:

• Allowing Contract Professionals and Letters of Appointment to participate and be represented by the Staff Senate (with some limitations, including Senior and Executive Levels positions).
• Adding an Informed Consideration requirement so that Senate nominees (with the expansion of representation) will best represent their constituents and meet the eligibility for consideration.
• Eliminating EEO categories to help determine representation
• Changing "Chair" to "President" and "Vice Chair" to "Vice President" with "Chair" and "Vice Chair" Reserved for their positions on the Executive Committee.
• Specifying when a Senator …

Documents From The October 8, 2025 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), Associated Students Of The University Of Montana, Kate Austin Payne

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the October 8, 2025 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Part 2: Sailor On The Seas Of Infinity, Luis Moreno-Armella, Corey Brady

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Mathematics is the result of a long process of research with the instruments of rationality that each age makes available to its members. Euclidean geometry crystallizes an impulse of deductive rationality. But this impulse has not always been the dominant one. At other times, such as the one we are going to explain in this part, a form of inductive reasoning has been given primacy. We will see the development of ideas that today constitute the foundations of the Calculus and that indicated the future task of its deductive consolidation. Our protagonist, the bold sailor, was identified as one who …

First-Year University Students’ Mathematics Capital And Identities, Paola Valero, Lisa Österling, Nhu Truong, Anna Danielsson, Bruna Nunes, Maria Berge

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Based on a survey of 150 respondents and 16 timeline interviews with first-year university mathematics students in Sweden, we explore how the material resources and conditions available to them —mathematics capital— connect to their mathematical identities. We found that mathematics capital has bearing on how early in life students start to consider doing mathematics. We also found individually different trajectories among students with low mathematics capital into university mathematics. The study expands both existing theoretical and methodological ways of researching the material bearings of identity and opens up for new ways of understanding and exploring the conditions that may facilitate …

Part 3: Mathematical Thinking And Rigor, First Steps, Luis Moreno-Armella, Corey Brady

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Agustín thus sought to abandon the unsafe use of inductive methods in algebra, as Leonardo had employed them, and to rather recover Euclid's ideal that is crystallized in the Elements of Geometry. Nevertheless, his idea of a limit is grounded in the dynamism of motion or a process: It is an embodied idea. From here, a conceptual exploration of functions and their possible properties begins. The effort of conceptual reorganization that Agustín undertakes is remarkable, and it prepares the ground for the in-depth research suggested by his work. With this arose a tangible need need to review the forms of …

David Tall And Advanced Mathematical Thinking, Keith Weber

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I discuss David Tall’s influence on advanced mathematical thinking.

Rethinking Equality In Mathematics Education With Category Theory, Kelly Paton

The Mathematics Enthusiast

To provide an alternative to the flattening operations of equality, which are prevalent not only in mathematics but also in our everyday world, I introduce the relational structures of category theory and their more nuanced notions of equivalence. Instead of defaulting to a binary assignation of equal or not-equal, equivalence posits that contextual relationships are integral to how we conceive of ‘same’ and ‘different’. I draw upon the ideas of philosophers who work against the erasure of diversity and offer ways to uphold difference while searching for commonalities. As I trace the sociopolitical implications of embracing an ontological framework built …

Portfolio And Appendix Chris M. Larson, Chris M. Larson

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

Abstract:

This is a collection of assignments and reflections of my work throughout the course of the Masters in Social Work program at the University of Montana. Included are assignments reflecting on the Indian Child Welfare Act, housing, barriers to care for Non-White and female veterans within the VA clinic, the quality of care in nursing homes, American Drug policy, confidentiality in the YWCA, training on interventions based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, cost benefit analysis of in home care programs, and a proposal for my practicum site Missoula Aging Services. It has reflections on the five elements of advanced practice, …

Tribal Sovereign Immunity: Absolute Authority Or Accountability, Kekek Jason Stark

Faculty Law Review Articles

In the wake of the recent United States Supreme Court decision of Trump v. United States, the Court determined that the President as Chief Executive is immune from conduct associated with official acts. The question that emanates from this opinion is how will this decision affect Indian Country and tribal court determinations of tribal sovereign immunity? This article will attempt to address this question. I begin with the Anishinaabe story of Bebaamosed miinawaa Gawigoshko’iweshiinh (The Trickster and the Little Scary Bird) in an attempt to understand the complicated nature of tribal sovereign immunity. As we reflect upon this story, …

Tribal Sovereign Immunity: Absolute Authority Or Accountability, Kekek Jason Stark

Public Land & Resources Law Review

In the wake of the recent United States Supreme Court decision of Trump v. United States, the Court determined that the President as Chief Executive is immune from conduct associated with official acts.3 The question that emanates from this opinion is how will this decision affect Indian Country and tribal court determinations of tribal sovereign immunity? This article will attempt to address this question. I begin with the Anishinaabe story of Bebaamosed miinawaa Gawigoshko’iweshiinh (The Trickster and the Little Scary Bird)5 in an attempt to understand the complicated nature of tribal sovereign immunity.

Discovering The Doctrine Of Discovery, Douglas Lind

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The doctrine of discovery is a concept in crisis. A principle of public international law associated with the so-called Age of Discovery, the doctrine of discovery is commonly said to have authorized European nations to claim the lands of indigenous peoples and establish settlements on the basis of “discovery” alone. Today, with good reason, the doctrine is widely condemned. The United Nations has denounced it as “the very foundation of genocide.” Describing its manifest injustices against indigenous cultures, dominion, and sovereignty as “devastating, far-reaching and intergenerational,” the UN Economic and Social Council has called for the doctrine to be categorically …

Uses And Abuses Of Johnson V. M’Intosh In Native American Land Rights Cases: Investigative Insights From The Indian Law Justice Files, John P. Lavelle

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The 200th anniversary of the foundational Indian law decision Johnson v. M’Intosh has come and gone, with many scholars contributing criticism and commentary. The dominant focus has been the case’s notorious embrace of the so-called “doctrine of discovery,” an odious theory for rationalizing European nations’ claims of superior rights to lands occupied by Indigenous Native American peoples. Commanding less attention, however, is the Johnson decision’s core protective legal feature, i.e., its reinforcing the United States government’s duty to guard against the alienation of Indian lands through private, unauthorized acquisitions.

Indian Casinos Under The Big Sky: Why Tribes In Other States Have Been More Successful With Gaming And The Path Forward For Montana’S Tribes, Trevor Funseth

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The most successful method of economic development for many Indian tribes in the United States has been gaming. Tribes across the country have risen out of poverty through their casino operations and have been able to use the profits to diversify their investments and improve tribal infrastructure, education, and social programs.

Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don’T: Solutions For The Snake River And The Nez Perce Tribe, Meridian S. Wappett

Public Land & Resources Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indian Water Rights Settlements And The Animas-La Plata Project: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of Dependency, Sidney Paulina Williams

Public Land & Resources Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indian Casinos Under The Big Sky: Why Tribes In Other States Have Been More Successful With Gaming And The Path Forward For Montana’S Tribes, Trevor Funseth

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Significant Montana Cases, Isabella Fossum, Emily Howke

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Tribal Sovereign Immunity: Absolute Authority Or Accountability, Kekek Jason Stark

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Reciprocity: Off-Reservation Treaty Hunting Rights, Sarah K. Yarlott

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indian Water Rights Settlements And The Animas-La Plata Project: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of Dependency, Sidney Paulina Williams

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Montana Supreme Court – The Statistics, Henry Bowers, John Carr

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Slp 560.00: Language Assessment And Intervention For School-Age Children And Adolescents, Ginger G. Collins

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Lit 327l.01: Shakespeare, Rib Browning

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Comx 240h.V50: Introduction To Rhetorical Theory, Megan E. Cullinan

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Crwr 310.01: Intermediate Fiction Workshop, Julia D. Ohman

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Crwr 591.01: Funny Fiction, Julia D. Ohman

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Ecns 431.01: International Trade, Derek K. Kellenberg

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Hsta 101h.50: American History I - Online, Jonathan W. Hall

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Hsta 103h.80: American History I - Honors, Kyle G. Volk

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Hsta 307y.01: The American Revolution And Founding Era, Corbin D. Page

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.