Despite funding cuts, the University of Alaska is reinventing itself
Author: Tim Bradner
Published December 19, 2020
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These are gloomy times. It’s December, and it’s dark. Vaccines are arriving but COVID-19 will be with us for a while. Our economy is suffering. We need some good news.
Consider our University of Alaska. Not too long ago things looked bleak for our state university. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s first budget director, Donna Arduin, wanted to gut UA with a 41% cut to state funding. Her vision for our university was a community college operating at a rock-bottom budget.