The growth in the school’s student body was touted by the college’s Interim Director Angela Mclean on Tuesday, who presented the information to a roundtable in Hamilton including University of Montana President Seth Bodnar.

“As I got ready to sit down in this room, I will tell you that I took a look at our spring numbers, and we’re over 20% from fall,” Mclean said. “And that is due to a lot of good messaging, really blood and sweat and hard work of our faculty and our staff and our students.”