New University of Montana President, Royce Engstrom Starts Weekly Video Updates – "The President’s Update"

Royce Engstrom, who became the 17th president of The University of Montana on Oct. 15, has started a new weekly video series.

"The President’s Update" offers another tool for the president to communicate with the Missoula campus, as well as the affiliated UM campuses in Butte , Dillon and Helena .

The first video is online at the President’s Office website, http://www.umt.edu/president . Future videos will be available there and on the official UM YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/UniversityOfMontana .

Links for each new video will be e-mailed to all employees and students when the videos become available. UM e-publications also will offer access to the videos. Engstrom hopes the videos will be shared widely, especially among students.

"I hope this becomes an effective way to communicate our priorities and other important University information widely across our affiliated campuses," Engstrom said. "This is a new process for me and our staff, and we will continue to refine and improve the series as we move forward."

"We want to keep these videos simple, conversational and, above all, useful."

Engstrom said many videos will be filmed in his office, but he expects some will be shot on location at the affiliated campuses. The president also said the videos will occasionally feature other speakers.

Stay tuned. More videos are on the way.

http://news.umt.edu/2010/10/102210vido.aspx