2020 Archive

Open for all community mental health providers and students. Earn nine contact hour CEU's for continuing education credits. Learn about the signs of human trafficking, and the traumas that this social issue can induce, especially in the most vulnerable. Enhance your own practice framework through the inclusion of your insight into human trafficking.

Following an internal search process, Dr. Raymond Weber, Aviation Technology faculty member, has agreed to step into the role of interim dean for UAA Community & Technical College. Ray will serve for two years and we will conduct a national search for the permanent dean in academic year 2021-2022.

After analyzing industry best practices and weighing the options against our fiscal reality, the Chancellor’s Cabinet made the difficult decision to outsource the handling of textbooks and course materials to a third-party vendor beginning in the fall 2020 term.

UA HR would like to formally introduce Chris Triplett as the Talent Acquisition Specialist focused on UAA recruitment. She will be taking over most of the duties that Rhonda McKay had been handling over the last few months. She will maintain an office in the University Lake Building with the rest of the Anchorage-based UA HR personnel.

The UAA Cultural Heritage Month Steering Committee requests your help planning Fall 2020 cultural celebration months! Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join our first campus-wide planning meeting on July 9 at 1 p.m. on Zoom.

Ordinarily, international students on an F-1 visa may take only one online course each semester. Due to COVID-19, the Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) instituted a temporary exemption regarding this requirement for the spring and summer 2020 semesters. For the fall 2020 semester, SEVP intends to modify these temporary exemptions.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents will meet later this week and next week to finalize the selection of an interim president for the University of Alaska System. The board expects that an interim president will be appointed on or about July 15 and will serve in the interim role for up to 18 months.

Dr. Garth N. Jones died on July 1, 2020, from a stroke at the age of ninety-five. Dr. Jones was the founding dean of the College of Business and Public Policy (1974-1979). He joined the University of Alaska Anchorage in the fall of 1973 as a professor of public administration and political science.