Montana State University
| Montana State University | |
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| Motto | Mountains & Minds (Berge und Verstand) |
| Gründung | 1893[1] |
| Trägerschaft | Öffentliche Universität Land-grant University |
| Ort | Bozeman, Vereinigte Staaten |
| Präsident | Waded Cruzado (seit 2010)[2] |
| Studierende | 16.788 (Herbst 2021)[3] |
| Mitarbeiter | 3338 (Herbst 2022)[4] |
| davon Dozenten | 1114 (Herbst 2021)[3] |
| Stiftungsvermögen | 177,6 Mio. US-Dollar (2020)[5] |
| Website | montana.edu |
Die Montana State University (auch MSU genannt) ist eine staatliche Universität in Bozeman im Südwesten des US-Bundesstaates Montana. Die Universität ist mit über 16.000 Studierenden die größte Hochschule in Montana (noch vor der University of Montana). Sie ist der wichtigste Standort des Montana State University Systems. Als einzige Universität weltweit bietet die MSU einen Masterstudiengang in Science and Natural History Filmmaking an.
Geschichte
Die Montana State University wurde 1893 als das Agricultural College of the State of Montana gegründet. Nach einer weiteren Umbenennung in Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts war es in den 1920er Jahren als Montana State College (MSC) bekannt. Am 1. Juli 1965 erhielt die Hochschule schließlich ihren heutigen Namen.[1]
Fakultäten
Die Zahlen in Klammern geben die Zahl der Studierenden und der Anteil der Studierenden im Herbst 2022 an, die den genannten Bereich als ihr erstes Hauptfach gewählt hatten:[4]
- College of Graduate Studies
- Agrarwissenschaft (College of Agriculture: 463, 12,3 %)
- Ingenieurwissenschaften (College of Engineering: 761, 20,3 %)
- Kunst und Architektur
- Pädagogik, Gesundheit und menschliche Entwicklung
- Pflegeberufe (Nursing)
- Technologie
- University College
- Wissenschaften[6] (College Of Letters & Science: 736, 19,6 %)
- Forschung zu amerikanischen Ureinwohnern
- Anglistik
- Biologie
- Chemie und Biochemie
- Geschichtswissenschaft und Philosophie
- Geowissenschaften
- Lebende Sprache und Literaturwissenschaft
- Mathematik
- Physik
- Politikwissenschaft
- Psychologie
- Soziologie und Anthropologie
- Anglistik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaft (College of Business: 474, 12,6 %)
Zahlen zu den Studierenden, den Dozenten und zum Vermögen
Im Herbst 2021 waren 16.788 Studierende an der MSU eingeschrieben.[3] Davon strebten 14.648 (87,3 %) ihren ersten Studienabschluss an, sie waren also undergraduates.[3] Von diesen waren 47 % weiblich und 53 % männlich; 1 % bezeichneten sich als asiatisch, 0 % als schwarz/afroamerikanisch, 5 % als Hispanic/Latino und 84 % als weiß.[3] 2.140 (12,7 %) arbeiteten auf einen weiteren Abschluss hin, sie waren graduates.[3] Es lehrten 1114 Dozenten an der Universität, davon 613 in Vollzeit und 501 in Teilzeit.[3] 2011 waren 14.153 Studierende eingeschrieben gewesen.
Der Wert des Stiftungsvermögens der Universität lag 2020 bei 177,6 Mio. US-Dollar und damit 1,44 % niedriger als im Jahr 2019, in dem es 180,2 Mio. Dollar betragen hatte.[5] 2008 waren es 107,3 Mio. US-Dollar gewesen, 2009 86,7 Mio. Dollar.[7]
Sport
Die Sportmannschaften der MSU werden als Bobcats bezeichnet. Die Hochschule gehört der Big Sky Conference an.
Bekannte Absolventen
- Dennis Erickson – American-Football-Trainer
- Hein Hoop – deutscher Künstler und Autor
- Christian Kracht senior – deutscher Medienmanager beim Axel Springer Verlag
- Brian Schweitzer – Gouverneur von Montana
- Jan Stenerud – American-Football-Spieler
Siehe auch
- KYPR, der Hochschulrundfunk
Trivia
Das weltweit über Jahrzehnte millionenfach verkaufte Werk Zen und die Kunst, ein Motorrad zu warten (Originaltitel: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) des US-amerikanischen Autors Robert M. Pirsig aus dem Jahr 1974 machte die Universität und Bozeman einem großen Leserkreis bekannt. Pirsigs Alter Ego Phaedrus reflektiert darin unter anderem seine Erinnerungen als Lehrer und Forscher, dessen philosophische Erkenntnisse sich ganz wesentlich seiner Lehrtätigkeit dort verdanken.
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ a b Founders Day. In: Montana State University > About MSU. Montana State University, Bozeman, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2023.
- ↑ President Waded Cruzado - Office of the President. In: Montana State University > Office of the President. Montana State University, Bozeman, abgerufen am 20. Mai 2023 (englisch).
- ↑ a b c d e f g College Navigator – Montana State University. In: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System https://nces.ed.gov/ > College Navigator > Montana State University. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), 2022, abgerufen am 4. Januar 2023 (englisch).
- ↑ a b Quick Facts: 2022-2023. In: Montana State University > Office of Planning & Analysis > Quick Facts. Montana State University, Bozeman, 7. Dezember 2022, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2023.
- ↑ a b U.S. and Canadian 2020 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY19 to FY20. In: NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers NACUBO®, 2020, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2023 (englisch).
- ↑ MSU Fachbereichsliste (Memento des Originals vom 4. Mai 2009 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.
- ↑ All U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year Endowment Market Value and Pecentage Change in Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009. In: NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers NACUBO®, 2009, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2023 (englisch).
Koordinaten: 45° 40′ 6″ N, 111° 3′ 0″ W
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Autor/Urheber: Tim Evanson, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
Looking southwest at a detail shot of Bobcat Stadium (Martel Field) on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
Originally named Reno H. Sales Stadium, the football venue was constructed in 1973 to replace Gatton Field (built in 1930). The total cost was $500,000. Sales was a member of the first MSU football team in 1897. An engineer, he was the chief geologist for Anaconda Copper for four decades. Sales donated heavily to Montana State, and was known as "Mr. Bobcat" for his boosterism.
The stadium was renovated in 1998 for $12 million and renamed "Bobcat Stadium." In 2002, MSU defeated the University of Montana in football for the first time in 16 years. Fans tore down one of the goal posts and brought it to the Crystal Bar -- a famous downtown Bozeman watering hole. In 2004, a renovation removed the goal posts, and one was donated to Crystal Bar. When MSU defeated UM again in 2005, fans tore down the goalposts and one was carried off to the Rocking R Bar -- another downtown Bozeman pub.
The stadium was enlarged in 2011. Half of the $10 million renovation was paid for with private funds. Improvements included the addition of 7,200 seats in the south end zone, new visiting team and referee locker rooms, renovated restrooms, an 18-by-37-foot screen in the north endzone, a new scoreboard, and night-time floodlights. The floodlights brought the stadium up to NCAA standards, allowing night games there to be televised.
The new stadium opened on September 10, 2011, for a game against UC-Davis.
The stadium has 17,777 seats, but capacity may be expanded by removing seats and establishing SRO areas and by adding temporary bleachers in the north endzone. A stadium attendance record of 20,767 was established on August 30, 2012, during the stadium's first night-game -- in which MSU played Chadron State.
The stadium playing field is named Martel Field, Bozeman construction executive Bill Martel who helped complete it.
The MSU Track and Field Complex was completely renovated in 2003. Included in the renovations were a new running oval, new pole vault runway and pit, new long/triple jump runways and pits, new high jump surface, and new javelin surface. Three years later, a new throwing area was added to the south end of the complex, and a cage added for hammer and discuss throwers. Permanent bleachers, a press box, and renovations to the throwing areas were added in 2012.Autor/Urheber: Tim Evanson, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
Looking north at the south side of Montana Hall — on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
- As of 2013, Montana Hall houses the President's Office, Registrar's Office, Student Accounts, and other administrative offices.
- Montana State University was created after Bozeman lost a four-way race to be the capital of Montana. As a consolation, the state legislature agreed to found an agricultural college in the city. Local rancher and businessman Nelson C. Story owned the land on which the state capital would have been built, and he donated this land to the state to serve as the university's campus.
- Montana Hall was the second building to be constructed on the campus (the first was the Agricultural Experiment Station, now known as Taylor Hall). John C. Paulsen, State Architect, designed the structure in the Old English vernacular styel. The cornerstone was laid on October 21, 1896. The structure was built with compressed red brick and sandstone trim. it is 90 feet long and 28 feet wide, and has four stories and a full basement. The stone foundations are two feet thick, and half exposed above-ground. Interior walls were reinforced with 2-by-4s. The first floor's exterior walls are 20 inches thick, while the second and third floor's exterior walls are 16 inches thick. Interior walls are brick, and are 12 inches thick in the basement and first floor, 8 inches thick on the second floor, and 4 inches thick on the third floor. The main entrance is on the north side, and consists of two, eight-foot-tall oak doors set in a brick arch and capped by a fanlight. Single-panel oak doors permit access on the east and west sides. (The east entrance was obliterated by a subsequent addition.) The steeply pitched (66 degrees) roof is gabled, and sports a brick chimney.
- Nine stone steps lead up to the main entrance. The president's office was original in the room east of the vestibule. It featured a marble fireplace. An administrative office occupied the room to the west of the vestibule. In an office in the northeast corner of the building were more administrative offices, while in the northwest corner was the registrar's office and bookstore. Three large classrooms occupied the length of the south side of the first floor. Nine wooden steps led to the second floor. A hallway running the length of the building gave access to the east and west stairways, which in turn provided access to the basement and third floors.
- The library, more offices, and more classrooms occupied the second floor. The auditorium, accessed by the west stairs, occupied 75 percent of the third floor. It was 68 feet wide and 31 feet deep, and flanked on the north and south by small meeting rooms. By 1921, a raised platform was built on the east side, reached by five risers. Behind the platform were five risers leading down to a hallway. The hallway was flanked by large rooms on the north and south, and led to the east stairs. The basement housed more classrooms and offices.
- All the internal staircases were wood with oak railings and balustrades. The floors were hardwood, with tile in the vestibule. Walls were plaster over brick, although the vestibule was unplastered decorative brick. Interior doors were oak set in wood frames, and mouldings were carved wood.
- The structure was electrified from its construction. Electricity was supplied by an experimental generator in the basement. Originally, warm air was circulated throughout the building via flues and a fireplace in the basement. This proved unworkable, however, and steam radiators were installed in the early 1920s.
- It was known as Main Building until it was renamed Montana Hall in 1914. When completed in April 1898, Main Hall housed an auditorium (in the upper floor's loft space) that sat 600, a library, and classrooms and offices for the departments of art, business, domestic science, English, mathematics, mechanical drawing, and modern languages. In the ensuing years, a two-story fireproof vault was added to the southwest corner of the building to house registrar records.
- In the 1920s, a curved, unpaved drive led up the hill on the north side of Montana Hall to allow vehicular access. Dusty in the summer and so slick with snow and ice it was not navigable in winter, President Roland Renne had it removed in 1943. (It was one of his first acts as president of the college.) The Montana State Architect subsequently created a plan that turned Garfield Avenue to the south of the building into the main avenue through the campus and the main approach to Montana Hall. The area north of the building became a grassy lawn. The west entrance now because the hall's main entrance.
- Some time in the 1920s or 1930s, a "temporary" one-story wood frame structure was built on the east side of Montana Hall to provide much-needed office space. This structure rendered the east entrance and east stairs unuseable.
- Montana Hall has played a significant role at MSU. It acts as the center of campus, and its distinctive silhouette is recognized as the symbol of the university. In 1915, engineering students used the steeple of Montana Hall to survey nearby Mount Baldy and position the gigantic white “M” in the the Bridger Mountains. Following Bozeman's terrible 1927 earthquake, the cupola was removed. (Legend has it that rambunctious students took a cow to the upper floors, and found that the cow would not go down stairs afterwards. So the cupola was removed and the cow lowered to the ground. This is apocryphal.) During the 1993 centennial of Montana State University, a new cupola was installed along with chimes which ran on the hour. A new roof was put on the structure in 2007.
- Montana Hall underwent a restoration in 2011. All window panes were replaced with energy-efficient ones. The exterior brick was cleaned of lichen and dirt, mortar repointed, and lead seals applied to vertical brick joints to prevent future water damage.
- However, a 2001 engineering study showed that Montana Hall needs at least $21.5 million in major repair. Among these are significant repairs to walls, floors, and other interior fixtures; upgrades to the electrical, HVAC, mechanical, and plumbing systems; adaptive renovations to enhance the lifespan of the building; fix life-threatening safety issues; serious structural repairs to fix sagging walls and floors; bringing the structure up to current building codes; and make it ADA-complaint. (ADA fixes alone would cost $1.5 million.) A $600,000 fire suppression system is also badly needed.