April 2020 Archive

UAA's professors had exactly one week to switch gears from providing traditional instruction to moving all their classes online. Despite the challenges, they’ve risen to the occasion to provide students with a seamless and stress-free-as-possible experience for the rest of the spring semester.

We are on the home stretch for spring semester, thanks to all your work to transition to alternate delivery. Many of you have sent questions about grades and finals. Keep reading for updates.

On April 14, we were notified of two COVID-19 incidents within Anchorage campus facilities. Since these are the first confirmed cases related to COVID-19 on the UAA campus, we want the university community to be aware of the process that follows the report of a confirmed COVID-19 case.

Please note that there will be a scheduled outage of UAOnline on Thursday, April 30, from 5 p.m. until about midnight. The university system always tries to schedule outages outside of final grading periods.

Mountain retreat 25 minutes from UAA. View more details at Zillow.

Vehicle in great condition, but I need to sell it ASAP as I am moving to the Lower 48.

This year's Juried Student Art Show was moved online! UAA students could enter up to two pieces in the show. Our guest juror, Amy Johnson, was also able to award up to $2,000 in cash prizes! David Joel came out with Best In Show with his "And then there was light" piece (pictured), along with over 15 other amazing entries from various artists.

The UAA Bookstore staff wants to make sure UAA students are aware of this generous offer from RedShelf: Free access to every eBook in their catalog for the rest of spring semester!