Program that brings Indigenous culture into the classroom expands to more communities in Southeast Alaska
Posted by Angela Denning | Jan 25, 2021
Tlingit Elder David Katzeek addresses a cohort of teachers
during a Thru the Cultural Lens seminar in the clan house of the Walter Soboleff Building in
Juneau in 2016. (Photo by Nobu Koch)
A program that teaches teachers how to incorporate culture into their classrooms has moved into several communities in Southeast Alaska. The program “Thru the Cultural Lens” is run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. It’s been in some of Juneau’s secondary schools for about seven years but this year it’s expanding to five K-12 school districts in smaller communities in the region.
UAS Chancellor Dr. Karen Carey Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor Dr. Karen Carey summed up the school s budget situation succinctly while a guest on Action Line.
She explained that the last year of the three year compact between Governor Dunleavy and the Board of Regents comes in Fiscal Year 22. That will mean another $1.5 Million reduction to her school.
Dr. Carey claims they can make that reduction without layoffs. She said their approach will be to not fill positions when they become vacant. She hopes this will be the last of the cuts so they can get on some kind of stable ground and know that they re going to be secure moving forward.
Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 22, 2020
“UAS Sitka was probably impacted less than 99-percent of the college campuses across the country,” says campus director Dr. Paul Kraft, “because remote is what we’re really good at.” (UAS photo)
Sitka’s campus of the University of Alaska Southeast is closed to the public, but education is happening there at greater levels than anyone expected.
Dr. Paul Kraft is the UAS Sitka campus director. During a presentation for the Sitka Chamber of Commerce Fall Speaker Series earlier this month (12-9-20), he said that enrollment is 750 students. He credited the strong numbers to the fact that the campus already had a well-established distance-learning program in place when the pandemic struck in March of this year.
Despite funding cuts, the University of Alaska is reinventing itself Author: Tim Bradner Published December 19, 2020
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Print article 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.