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A campus-wide party, hosted by Chancellor Lind, will be held Dec. 8 in the Great Hall from 3-6 p.m. All UAF faculty, staff and students are invited to celebrate the holiday season with the chancellor.

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Guest housing is available through the Department of Residence Life year-round. Guests can be lodged in Moore Hall at the rate of $25/person/night throughout the academic year. Both double and single rooms are available, with a shared bathroom per floor, and a shared kitchen for the hall. The Nordic House is also available. For reservations or more information, call 6768 or email conference.services@uaf.edu.

The student postcard petition effort amassed over 5,000 cards asking Gov. Knowles to meet the UA Board of Regents' funding request in his budget proposal this year, scheduled for release Dec. 15. The postcards, requesting a funding increase of about $17 million, were presented en masse to the governor during the recent Board of Regents meeting on campus.

UAF's third annual Scholarship Breakfast was held Nov. 18. The breakfast honored donors who financially supported UAF through 220 scholarships this year, and recognized students who received funds totaling $339,000. More than 80 percent of this year's scholarships were endowed by private donors in support of the university's educational efforts.

The Hutchison Career Center renovation and expansion was the topic of a recent breakfast hosted by the center, and attended by Mayor Hank Hove, President Hamilton, Chancellor Lind, Acting Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Superintendent Jim Holt and Tanana Valley Campus Director Ruth Lister. The project is a partnership between UAF's Tanana Valley Campus and the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District to update the facility, allowing the center to meet the growing vocational training needs of the community.

Employee notice, protection for whistleblowers: Any employee may in good faith report to testify before a public agency concerning: a violation of federal, state or local law; a danger to public health or safety; gross mismanagement; a substantial waste of funds or clear abuse of authority; or a matter under investigation by the state. Employee protections and obligations regarding reports of these matters of public concern are fully stated in Alaska statutes 39.90. 100 through 39.90.150, which are available for review at UAF University Relations, 201 Eielson Building.

The UAF Telephone Directory is online at http://www.uaf.edu/directory. The directory is updated regularly; to make changes, go to the directory and click on submit changes. Contact fyphone@uaf.edu for details.

The snow removal schedule is available by email. To add yourself to the listserv receiving email notification of removal updates, simply send the message "subscribe SNOW-L" to maiser@yukon.admin.uaf.edu.

A "Semester at Sea" information booth will be hosted by Bruce Guernsey, former instructor for the Fall 1996 Semester at Sea voyage, in Wood Center, Dec. 7, from 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

The Staff Council year 2000 calendar will be distributed at the Dec. 3 meeting. Check with your representative for a calendar.

The Students' Ceramic Art Guild will present its annual fall pottery sale Dec. 10 from noon-6 p.m. in room 415 of the Fine Arts Complex. Contact 7530 or fyart@uaf.edu for more details.

The UAF Bookstore is hosting its annual holiday customer appreciation sale Dec. 3-5.  All merchandise will be 25 percent off, excluding textbooks and software. Live music by Clark County will be featured Dec. 3, along with door prizes and refreshments. The sale runs from noon- 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Call 6859 or email fybook@uaf.edu for details.

The LARS annual gift sale will be held Dec. 7, 14, and 16 from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. in the lobby of the Irving Building, West Ridge. Gift items available will include clothing with the LARS logos, muskox and caribou jewelry, various qiviut items and more. Proceeds go to the continued care of the animals at LARS. Call 7945 or email fulars@uaf.edu for details.

A photograph sale, offering copies of historic photographs from Rasmuson Library's Alaska and polar regions department, will be held Dec. 10 in the Wood Center ballroom from 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. The sale will feature discounts of up to 50 percent, and prices beginning at $5. Proceeds go to the historic preservation work of the Alaska and polar regions department. Call 6344 or 7261 for more information.

A new computer can be won by any student, staff or faculty member who test-drives a NETg course and fills out an online survey, thanks to UAF and the UA Technology Store. Those who take a course and complete the survey will be entered in the drawing for a free laptop computer, held Jan. 14.
 

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The Alaska Chamber Chorale presents "Carols of the Ages" in the Davis Concert Hall, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. Copies of their Christmas CD, "A Northern Noel," will be available for purchase. Tickets are available from chorale members or at the door. Call 5419 for more information.
 

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Jan. 21, 2000: Deadline to submit applications for the Global Change Student Research Grant Competition. Application packets for one or two year projects during the 2000-2001 fiscal year are available at the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, room 306 IARC. Call 5818 or go online at http://www.cgc.uaf.edu for more details.

Until filled: Nominations for the Northern Momentum Teacher/Scholar Program will be accepted until all places are filled. Visit http://www.uaf.edu/provost/NMTSP.htm or call 5178 for more details.

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Our admissions office is working hard to attract and keep students. While fall 1999 opening enrollment is down at the Fairbanks campus by 1.7 percent (and down 1.8 percent for the entire MAU, including Fairbanks and branch campuses) from fall 1998, there is good reason to be optimistic. When you consider that enrollment declined 8.6 percent at the MAU level just one year ago, from 9,012 to 8,235, this fall's slight decline is good news. Even better news is that enrollment of all types of new students-first-time freshman, classic first-time freshmen, transfer students and first-time graduate students-is up from last fall. After a steady period of decline roughly paralleling our overall enrollment decline from 9,416 students in 1994 to 8,235 in 1998, enrollment of first-time freshmen increased 3.5 percent, classic first-time freshmen 7 percent, and first-time graduate students 21.3 percent. Our final enrollment for fall 1999 won't be available until after the first of the year, but early indications are that we will come out near our overall fall 1998 student enrollment. And that's with enrollment declines at local high schools.

Recruiting and retention are everyone's business at UAF. We all have a part in making the student experience a memorable one. I've said it before, and study after study supports the fact, that students who attend college in Alaska tend to stay here after graduation to live, work and raise families. As our students prepare to leave UAF for the holiday break, remember you can have a positive impact on whether those students decide to come back in the spring.

We will continue to focus on our strengths at UAF. Our institution is an undisputed leader in the study of science of the Far North. We will also address the concerns we hear from students and parents about wanting opportunities to experience life outside Alaska. Watch for UAF's new campaign promoting domestic and international student exchange programs. We'll be encouraging students to "Come to UAF and See the World." For the price of UAF tuition or residency tuition at a school in another state or country, students have an opportunity to experience academic diversification and different climates, cultures and geography. Plus, as an exchange student, they'll have a chance to judge for themselves what a great education UAF offers at an affordable price, with opportunities here that are available noplace else in the world.
 

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