A New Year and a new semester finds UAA’s Honors College with new leadership. Dr. Judith Owens-Manley was appointed Interim Associate Dean of the College Jan 9 and will be handling the advising, curriculum planning and programming for the college.
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GPAs show UA Scholars may not attract Alaska’s ‘best and brightest’
October 3rd, 2011 by Matt
Ninety-eight percent of Alaska high schools use GPAs to determine which students receive the $1,375 per semester scholarship offered by the UA Scholars program. Yet surprisingly, no one at the University of Alaska ever sees the average GPA of those graduating classes. “We just get a list,” Executive Director of the UA Scholars Program, Linda [...]
FYI: your rights to privacy– FERPA
September 20th, 2011 by Matt
Before 1974, schools could hand out student GPAs, disciplinary records, or phone numbers to almost anyone who asked. The Family Educational Right and Privacy Act changed that. Schools now must ask students for permission before they distribute any educational data. The protections that FERPA provides apply to all students who are admitted to UAA. For [...]
2.5M construction project upgrades Providence Drive
June 14th, 2011 by Matt
The Seawolf Drive and Providence Drive intersection is currently undergoing phase two of a $2.5 million project designed to ease traffic flow for buses and ambulances in the U-Med region, and is scheduled to be blocked until the end of June.
BOR Committee approves 126.8 million construction projects.
June 1st, 2011 by Matt
The Facilities and Land Management Committee met in Anchorage Tuesday to deliberate two motions, both of which were passed. They will be affirmed or denied when all of the Board of Regents meet in Fairbanks this Thursday and Friday.
Two of UAA’s top ski coaches set to resign this year
March 29th, 2011 by Megan Edge
After seven years head ski coach Trond Flagstad is throwing in the towel and resigning. He isn’t the only memorable ski coach at UAA resigning however. Assistant ski coach, Mandy Kaempf will also be leaving after five seasons with the team.
University insurance plans to see big changes this July
March 22nd, 2011 by Sean Talbot
The University is trimming the fat off of employee health care benefits. Currently, University of Alaska employees aren’t required to provide documentation for their claimed dependents to receive medical benefits. As of July 1, they’ll have to break out the birth certificates to prove that their kids are their kids. Under the new documentation plan, [...]
Shared governance policy not followed in Chancellor appointment
February 8th, 2011 by Matt
UAA Faculty and students had some quizzical looks in response to the appointment of Tom Case as chancellor. Rachel Colvard, a USUAA Senator, called the move “a slap in the face to 17,000 people.” Jacqueline Cason, Associate Professor of English at UAA, said “President Gamble’s act was mostly expedient, even though Tom Case is by [...]
