The Kaimin interviewed University of Montana President Seth Bodnar regarding UM’s future after a semester of seismic governmental shifts that have brought trepidation for many students.

Over the course of the 30-minute phone interview, Bodnar was asked about his most unexpected challenges, diversity, equity and inclusion cuts, Indigenous representation and several other questions posed by students.

Bodnar said the most unexpected challenge he has faced in the three years since the Kaimin last directly interviewed him is a decrease in the number of high school graduates attending college.