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Our current LMS – Blackboard Learn Original – is a shared, system-wide contract to which UAA is one party. It unfortunately is out of date, and many faculty and students would like to move to an improved LMS experience.

At the start of June, members of UAA's DEI leadership team attended and presented at NCORE, the nation's largest higher education DEI conference.

Title IX offers protection against discrimination in education (and its extended activities). But what does that mean in real life? Here are some examples of something covered under Title IX.

Margo Fliss is the first certified Entrepreneurship Development Professional (EDP) in Alaska. As the Manager of Strategic Engagement at the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development (UA CED) at the UAA Business Enterprise Institute, Fliss is a lead instructor for the organization’s Upstart Alpha Startup Accelerator and the Upstart Intern program, which connects students to startups.

After a successful national search, I am so pleased to announce that Dr. Melanie Hulbert has been selected as the new VPSS and Dean of Honors. She will start her position July 17.

During its June 3 full-board meeting in Anchorage, the University of Alaska Board of Regents approved a resolution of appreciation for Bruce Schultz, who will be retiring from his position as the University of Alaska Anchorage Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs after a distinguished career in leadership roles spanning three decades.

Familiar faces with years of experience at UAA will fill two key leadership positions as Chancellor Sean Parnell announces the newest additions to his cabinet following comprehensive search processes to fill the vice chancellor for student affairs and vice chancellor for administrative services positions.

UAA Parking Services would like to remind our UAA community that Summer semester permit enforcement is in effect through July 29. If you had a semester Priority permit, please be sure to renew! If you had a semester permit from spring, please be sure to renew or purchase your new summer permit. If you purchased a 2021-2022 Annual permit, you’re covered!

Congratulations to the first group of graduates from the UAA Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) certificate program! Shared Equity Leadership is a model of equity promotion endorsed by the American Council of Education (ACE), and our accreditor, NWCCU.