MSU Leadership Institute & UM Global Leadership Initiative

John Prendergast, formerly an adviser in the White House and U.S. Department of State, is known for speaking frequently and powerfully about inhumanity in Africa’s war-torn nations.

Designed to challenge students to discover their leadership potential through course work and a variety of experiences. Equipped with critical and ethical thinking skills, these students can become agents of positive change in society.

In October of 1999, Michael Brown accompanied a North Face team of top athletes as they attempted to climb and ski Shishapangma, an 8000 meter peak in the Tibetan Himalaya. Tragedy struck in the form of a massive avalanche that took the life of Bozeman climber Alex Lowe and his companion, David Bridges.

Brown’s 57- minute film The Endless Knot chronicles the friendship of two men, the love of family, overcoming survivor’s guilt and helping others to avoid a similar fate. Alex Lowe’s death was one of many sad stories that unfold when families lose loved ones in the mountains.

The convocation, a celebration for MSU’s incoming freshmen, is free and open to non-freshmen who have obtained tickets in advance from MSU’s Ask Us Desk or Borders Books.

“We cannot possibly account for every potential error… and recognizing this principle while remaining prepared to respond in extraordinarily impromptu manners, has given me my greatest sense of achievement.”

Human beings are poisoning the planet and threatening animals with extinction, famed scientist Jane Goodall told a large Bozeman audience Monday, but there is reason to hope we are smart enough and compassionate enough to turn things around.

“We haven’t inherited this world from our parents – we’ve borrowed it from our children, We’ve been stealing, stealing, stealing.”

When Jane Goodall attended a scientific conference in 1986, she arrived a scientist and left an activist. Goodall will deliver the MSU Friends of the Stegner Lecture, "Reason for Hope" 6 p.m. Monday at the…

“The Iranian people are very critical of their government,” Ebadi said, speaking through a translator. “But you must understand that war against Iran, or even a threat of war against Iran, will put human rights in a worse situation and give the government the pretext to suppress the voices of dissidents.”

“Carmen is so innovative … She has a great ability to
bring people together. The Montana State University Leadership Institute wouldn’t have come
about without Carmen’s innovation and hard work.”