School news
UM grads
The following local students earned degrees from the University of Montana-Missoula during the fall 2011 semester - from Columbia Falls, Chelsea Beecher, bachelor's in education, Nathan Donner, bachelor's in marketing, and Kimberly Pearce, bachelor's in pre-master of accounting; from West Glacier, Brady Dunne, bachelor's with honors in wildlife biology.
UM dean's list
The following students were named to the University of Montana's dean's list for the fall 2011 semester - from Columbia Falls, Chelsea Beecher (GPA 4.0), Breanne Erickson, Chase Fairbank, Jshanie Gilham, Danielle Gilley, Logan Hunter, Jennifer Jurva, Jacob Lutz, Samantha Maas, Sarah Marcille, Ketti Wilhelm and Adam Woods; from Hungry Horse, Jesse Flickinger and Kevin Kuper.
Carroll College dean's list
The following Columbia Falls students were named to Carroll College's fall 2011 dean's list - Allison Lampman, Benjamin Donner, Caitlin Newton, Elaine Soennichsen and Nathan Woods.