student achievement and attainment · in 2015, the student investment fund (sif) at the university...

Theme I

Student Achievement and Attainment

Daniel M. White, UA VPAAR

SAF Theme 1

It’s all about students

• Responsibility and Leadership

• Graduation Rates

• Student Satisfaction

• Meeting the State’s Needs

• Minorities and Alaska Natives

• Processes and Procedures

• Achievement and Recognition

Responsibility & Leadership

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Think critically

Exercise good judgement

Engage in civic matters

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Each year, GAAP (Great Alaskan Accounting People, a student organization) provides free income tax assistance, preparation and electronic filing to community members as part of the IRS Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

Louise Bishop, Philosophy major, with kid volunteers at Stone Soup Café, which provides free meals to those in need. Louise and Chanelle Fournier (now an MA English student) run a monthly "kids cafe“, where children serve their community by making sandwiches, prepping vegetables for the week, and creating a soup.


Food Drive – April 2015 Food Collected: Quantity: 1052 cans Weight: 1167.7 lbs


Bunkbeds for Homeless Kids: Steel Bridge Team members and the AGC student club spent built bunk beds for less fortunate kids in North Pole.


In 2015, the Student Investment Fund (SIF) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks surpassed a total of $1 million. This fund is managed by students, with faculty oversight. This year, the income allowed four $2500 scholarships to be awarded.


School of Education Secondary STEM Students Outreach to Schools Anderson: Owl Dissection


Allakaket: Student teacher Bennett Wong engages K-12 students in place based lessons about birds.

School of Education Secondary STEM Students Outreach to Schools


Alaska Leadership Initiative (AL-I) The First-Year Experience program at UAS utilizes Peer Mentors to serve as ambassadors for first-year students in transition to their college experience.


AL-I Members at the UAS Day of Service

Responsibility & Leadership UAS MEd Reading students, practicing teachers representing school districts throughout the state (including Kodiak, Sleetmute, King Salmon, Sand Point, Noatak, Napaskiak, and Ketchikan), traveled to Juneau this summer to design intensive tutoring sessions for striving readers from the Juneau community.

Career Center/Student Employment Felix Thillet – Served during freshman year as a Peer Advisor and Student Activities Office Assistant. Spent summer 2015 in Haines as an intern for the American Bald Eagle Foundation. Also served as a member of Student Government and beginning a term as a Community Advisor. Counseling/Disability Support Anonymous – Student experiences ADHD and had an IEP in high school. The student was able to receive accommodations at UAS including extended exam time in a less distracting environment. Student also improved time management, organization, and general navigation of the college life through work with DSS. Alaska Leadership Initiative Holly Eyre – ALI participant during her freshman and sophomore years. Now a leader in community service projects at UAS and a Community Advisor with Housing.



UAS Ketchikan Student Government

Freshman Jasmihn Williams

speaking at the dedication of the

new First Year Residence Hall

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Student Satisfaction

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Satisfaction Ratings, 2014

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Meeting the State’s needs

Examples of recent alumni who are teaching in Alaska:

Sean Brewer ( '14) teaches in the H.I.R.E. program in Fairbanks. H.I.R.E. helps cognitively challenged young adults join the Alaskan workforce.

Gianna Ekenweiller ('13) teaches middle school in Stebbins. In 2015 her students came to Fairbanks to participate in the regional "Project Citizen" competition.

Dan Esparza ( '12) serves as head football coach and teaches special education social studies at Bartlett High School.

Lynnae Happ (’14) teaches art and STEAM electives at Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks. Corrie Lambrecht ('14) teaches physics and math at GILA (Galena).


• Marine Biology PhD graduate Jill

Seymour, BOEM in Anchorage. • MS Marine Biology graduate

Anna Bryan, ADF&G Wildlife Biologist in Fairbanks.

• MS Fisheries graduate Elena Fernandez, an ADF&G fishery biologist in Cordova.

• MS Marine Biology graduate Martin Schuster, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service fishery biologist in Homer.


Minorities & AK Natives


At the Baccalaureate level Alaska Native students had high enrollment numbers in rural development, elementary education, engineering, social work, biological sciences and business. Those programs that have a clear pathway (e.g. Rural Human Services (certificate)->Human Services (Associates)->Social Work (Bachelors) have a high success rate, in terms of number of Alaska Native graduates.

Liza Mack and her son Cohen participating in a six-week summer language intensive on St. Paul Island.

Liza Mack • PhD candidate in UAF’s Indigenous Studies

program. • Aleut, born and raised in King Cove, Alaska. • Research areas include indigenous land and

fisheries rights, traditional ecological knowledge, Native cultures and contemporary issues, and political ecology.

• Awarded a MESAS fellowship and an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship.

• Awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement grant for her research with Alaska Native leaders in the Eastern Aleutians.

Over the past ten years UAF has graduated 18 Alaska Native or American Indian Ph.D. recipients, most from College of Liberal Arts programs.



• BUILD grant, $24 million from the National Institutes of Health

• Engage rural and minority students in biomedical and health careers

Minorities & AK Natives Alaska Native faculty and staff at the UA sites work together to create an annual spring conference, the Alaska Native Studies Conference. The conference promotes Indigenous research and languages, not only in Alaska, but outside as well.

All three UA’s have faculty members on the editorial board for the conference proceeding publications. The successful conference rotates UA’s each spring. Well recognized and published global Indigenous researchers present and participate each year. The conference started in spring, 2013.

Minorities & AK Natives ANSEP Awards: • In 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy's Minorities in Energy Initiative (MIE) named ANSEP the most exceptional program in the U.S. for STEM Education and Workforce Development, highlighting ANSEP’s role as a leader in establishing and implementing a framework for advancing STEM education for K-12 students throughout Alaska. • In 2013 the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University recognized ANSEP as one of the top 25 Innovations in American Government from a field of 600 candidates.


By the Numbers • More than 77 percent of Middle School Academy participants successfully complete algebra 1 before high school; nationally, that number is only 26 percent. • Of 300 participants in the Summer Bridge program, 95% (277) enrolled in engineering or science BS degree programs. • 75% of ANSEP students enrolled in BS degrees since 2010 have graduate or are still enrolled.

Minorities & AK Natives Recent Accomplishments: • In Fall 2015 two Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) alumni will make history at UAA as the first tenure-track Alaska Native engineering faculty members. Michele Yatchmeneff and Matt Calhoun recently earned their doctorates in engineering and will begin to develop the next generation of STEM industry professionals in Alaska.


Annual Native Oratory Event Native Graduation

Processes and Procedures

Office of Admissions and Records • Restructured the UAOnline special permission process to decrease time between

instructor approval and student ability to register for the course. • Consistently identified which students should not be dropped for non-payment

(because of pending financial aid). • Improved outreach efforts to students with incomplete applications to increase

enrollment. • Purchased and are currently implementing a new CRM (Customer Relationship

Management) system that will create a personalized and interactive student portal.

• Reduced application processing time from an average of 3-5 days to 1-2 days. • Implemented OnBase Transfer Credit Capture Integration (TCCI), which captures

data from incoming transcripts as they are scanned into OnBase and pushes the data directly into transfer credit screens in Banner.


Financial Aid • Financial Aid and award and tracking documents sent via e-mail rather

than mailed, reducing the time and cost. Bursar’s Office • Consolidated the Business Office, Parking Services, and UAF PolarExpress

office to allow students to take care of business in one location. • Instituted electronic tuition waiver approval and submission process via

DocuSign. • Implemented eAccounts for the PolarExpress card. Bursar’s Office Improvements in progress • PolarExpress photo and application submission online. • Employee tuition waiver automation through Banner to allow tuition

waivers to be audited for eligibility and processing in a more automated fashion.


Residence Life • On-line room change and room selection.

• Clear, streamlined process for ADA Emotional Animals in campus housing.

• Gender Inclusive housing is available for fall 2015.

• Haven and Alcohol Edu offered to all students during fall 2015. Haven is an online course that deals with sexual assault education and prevention.

• Residence Life and the Student Activities Office have two Title IX Coordinators that work directly with EEO to ensure that faculty, staff, and students—are aware of their legal rights under Title IX, and that the school and all of its employees, through its policies, procedures, and practices, complies with its legal obligations under Title IX.


Achievement & Recognition

For the first time, UAA’s Seawolf Debate Program hosted the U.S. Universities Debating Championship in Anchorage, April 11-13. More than 180 teams representing 58 universities competed in eight preliminary debates over two day.


First patent awarded to a UAA student

Alex West, a UAA Engineering and Honors College alumna, is UAA’s first student inventor to receive a patent. She was granted a patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,833,682, in September 16, 2014, for “Fish Carcass Disposal System. “ Her invention, a water-powered fish carcass disposal system, grinds fish carcasses into pieces for eco-friendly dispersal back into the environment.


Student Innovation KOLAIAH BAKER and ANNA HAMRE won Alaska Heart Institute grants. Baker and Hamre advanced the design of an ergonomic wireless instrumented mouthguard-helmet that will be used to study impacts that cause concussions in athletes.


Student Invention: Matt Anctil’s patent pending Portable Standalone Photo-Fluorometer Lab on a Chip Sensor and software made an expensive and large device small, inexpensive and portable.



Student Invention: Created by Erik Williams (pictured on top right) and Will Fisher (pictured on bottom right), MapPost© is a mobile event app that provides UAF students, faculty and staff with a tool for locating, posting, sorting and filtering events and activities on campus.


Student Invention: Tim Theurer (pictured on right), inventor of Signal Correction for Environmental Distortion Software, corrects wavefront distortion using adaptive correction factors. Patent pending.


• “At the UAS Tech Center I put what I am learning in theory into practice. And, I’m working as diesel technician while going to school. My UAS education is not only an asset to my employer, it’s given me a sense of confidence I can take with me.” Jesse Vaughn, A.A.S. POWER TECHNOLOGY, DIESEL


Statewide NASA/EPSCoR symposium hosted by UAS April 2014.

Student Presenters at the 16th Annual

meeting of the Society for Personality and

Social Psychology conference

February 2015

Achievement & Recognition Accomplishments in 2015 at the Ketchikan Campus

• Implemented partnerships with Vigor Alaska and the Alaska Marine Highway to offer the Maritime and Multi-Skilled Worker program to prepare students in the maritime, construction and mining sectors.

• Achieved a 100% completion rate for the second cohort of Maritime and Multi-Skilled Worker students with 83% employment in maritime industries and 1 student in an AA program.

2014 graduating class of Maritime & Multi-skilled Worker program


UAS Ketchikan increased fall and spring graduates with certificates and AA

degrees by 20 % in 2015.

Pictured: Morgan Enright who

received her Associate of Applied Science in

Business Administration in May 2015.


UAS Ketchikan student commencement Starla Agoney received her Bachelor of

Liberal Arts in Elementary Education, cum laude. The UAS e-learning BLA has

enrolled and graduated students from all over Alaska.

UAS Ketchikan developed a partnership with Ketchikan Indian Community’s Tribal Scholars high school program to deliver a USDA grant funded class regarding mariculture in Southeast Alaska. Pictured above: Tribal Scholar student Noelyn Trout learning to identify organisms found on local beaches.


Student Mariel accepted a job in St. Mary’s, immediately following her experience.

UAS senior student teachers, Katie Goodell, Mariel Enriquez, and Jeton Johnson created a lovely powerpoint, sharing their valuable rural practicum experience.

Achievement & Recognition Donovan Bell, front, and Josh Russell, help track the returns of spawning salmon at the NOAA Auke Creek Fish Weir Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Each student conducted their own supervised research while helping to provide essential man-power for positions no longer funded in NOAA’s budget. This UAS summer internship provides each student with a $5,000 summer stipend to work at the Auke Creek salmon weir alongside UAS and NOAA scientists. Students collect and provide daily hands-on exposure to fisheries operations and data collection.

DUKE KAHUMOKU, who grew up in Kodiak, spoke on behalf of graduating students at the December 2014 graduation ceremony. The married father of two (with one on the way) received his bachelor’s degree in political science and plans to stay at UAA to pursue a master’s degree in public administration with a health management emphasis.


Student Athletes The UAA Women’s Basketball team was ranked No. 1 in the nation over the last four weeks of the season and won the GNAC Championship for the third time.


NASA Rocketry Competition In its first year competing in the NASA Student Launch Challenge, UAA won the university-level Rocket Fair Award. At the April 11 event held near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, UAA took sixth place out of 32 university teams competing and third place in the “Mini-[Mars autonomous vehicle] division.


OLIVER PETRAITIS is the 11th UAA student in the last decade to receive a Fulbright Scholarship. Petraitis, a double major in English and languages (German and French) with a minor in psychology, will spend the next year teaching English in Germany thanks to this prestigious award. He was mentored by language professor Natasa Masanovic. TESIA FORSTNER won the Fran Ulmer Transformative Research Award for her research into the migration and diet ecology of the black turnstone, an Alaska shorebird. Forstner’s faculty mentor on the project is Audrey Taylor.


XAVIER MASON delivered the student speaker address for the 2015 Spring Commencement on May 3. Mason earned a double degree in marketing and management. He founded three organizations—HandMade, CurrentEnergy, and VisualAid—that benefit underprivileged people in Alaska and Africa. He was a College of Business & Public Policy Leadership Fellow and a finalist for a Truman Scholarship.


Carina Dick

Carina Dick, a graduate of the School of Education's Community Counseling Program, exemplifies student and professional scholarship, research and service. As a student, she was first author on two peer-reviewed publications: Mary Lincoln's Madness: Understanding the Factors That Influence the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, and Understanding and Assisting Couples Affected by an Eating Disorder.


• 1st - Overall Performance • 1st – Stiffness • 1st - Lightness • 1st – Construction Speed

• 1st – Construction Economy • 1st – Structural Efficiency • 1st - Display


UAF Steel Bridge Team 2015

The Spring 2015 results for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) business field exam: • At the BBA level (out of 563 schools) UAF

ranked overall at the 94th percentile. Members of Beta Gamma Sigma, the Business Honors Society


The Spring 2015 results for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) business field exam: • At the MBA level (out of 238 schools) UAF

ranked overall at the 91st percentile.


Winners of the Imperial Barrel petroleum basin evaluation competition Graduate students from CNSM’s Geosciences Department have competed in the Imperial Barrel Awards for the last four years and placed in the top three each time at the regional level, winning first place in 2015 and 2013 and then advancing to the world finals.

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Emerson Eads earned his Master’s degree in 2013. • Created a composition for the launching of

the R/V Sikuliaq • Composed/conducted ‘Color of Gold‘, an

opera in three acts commissioned by Opera Fairbanks

• Awarded a Rasmuson Foundation individual artist grant for an opera to be finished in 2016

• Founding director of Fairbanks Symphony Chorus and Children's chorus

• Recipient of a Presidential Fellowship at Notre Dame, where he is pursuing his doctorate in music.

Emerson Eads


Undergraduate student Jennifer Paniati developed a professional development course for in-service teachers titled "Engineering Education in the K-8 Classroom". Jennifer will be co-teaching the course with a UAF faculty member through eLearning this fall.


UAS URECA Student Presentation 2015: Carrie Amott

Dynamics of an advancing glacier: Investigation of subglacial and preglacial sediment at the Taku Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jason Amundson


UAS URECA Student Presentation 2015: Melissa Rhodes-Reese Investigating the relationship between pH and dissolved iron in Berner's Bay, Alaska. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Hoferkamp


UAS URECA Student Presentation 2015: Joe Lewis Professional Artistry and Style at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Kane


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