Office of Alaska Native Education & Outreach

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Dawn Randazzo, INDS BA, at UAA's 2024 Spring Commencement in the Alaska Airlines Center.

Dawn Randazzo, INDS BA, at UAA's 2024 Spring Commencement in the Alaska Airlines Center.

 

The Office of Alaska Native Education and Outreach works to implement Alaska Native Success into the fabric of everything we do at UAA. UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples.

Alaska Native Success Initiative (ANSI)

ANSI Vision

Build an Alaska Native community within UAA and be a global leader in Alaska Native student success, teaching and scholarship. ANSI is being incorporated into everything we do at UAA, each of our Campuses, Colleges, and Schools has its own ANSI Strategic Plan. Because it requires everyone in our community - administrators, faculty, staff and students - to work together to create the systemic change needed to foster success and create a place of belonging.

Priority 1: Alaska Native Students

Increase Alaska Native Student preparation, recruitment, retention, and graduation rates.
Goal 1: Eliminate the need for remediation and reduce the time to earn their degree for graduated high school students.
Goal 2: Have 15% of the total enrolled students be Alaska Native.
Goal 3: Increase Alaska Native retention and graduation rates.

Priority 2: Alaska Native Faculty & Staff

Increase recruitment & retention of Alaska Native Faculty & Staff.
Goal: Increase the percentage of Alaska Native Faculty from 6% & Alaska Native Staff from 7.5% to 20%.

Priority 3: Institution (Internal & External)

Create a culture of belonging for Alaska Native Students, Faculty, Staff, & Community Organizations.
Goal 1: Resource Alaska Native Academic Departments & Student Support Programs.
Goal 2: Increase Alaska Native representation both internally & externally.
Goal 3: Improve Human Resources’ policies & practices.

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Chanshtnu Council

Vision

Ensuring Alaska Native Success through honoring and the representation of Indigenous Knowledge throughout our learning community. The Chanshtnu Council includes the Alaska Native Academic and Student Success Program Faculty and Staff, Student leaders, Faculty and Staff.

Alaska Native Academic Programs

Alaska Native Studies — Anchorage Campus


Alaska Native Art


Indigenizing Education

Alaska Native Student Success Programs

Native Student Services (NSS)

Alaska Native Community Advancement in Psychology (ANCAP)/ Alaska Natives into Psychology (ANPsych)
Alaska Native, Indigenous & Rural Outreach Program (ANIROP) & The Cama-i Room
Alaska Traditional Kitchen (AKTK)
Della Keats
Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN)
Department of Community & Belonging

¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ Land Acknowledgements

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Dena'inaq eÅ‚nen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ to English translation by Helen Dick, Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak

Ahtna Denaey

Danse nene' ghestnaa eÅ‚ izdaa: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. Ahtna Denaey to English translation

Yup'ik

Uitalartua caliaqlua-llu ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹-t nuniitni: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Quentin Simeon. Yup'ik to English translation by Alice Rearden

Contact

a portrait shot of Michele Yatchmeneff

Michele Aangsux̂ Yatchmeneff, PhD
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Alaska Native Education & Outreach Executive Director
Associate Professor of Engineering
michele@alaska.edu 
(907) 786-1853

¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹m tanangin kugan angÌ‚agÌ‚izaq: "I live on ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ lands."
Unangam Tunuu to English translation