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Chancellor Lind recently signed into effect UAF's Off Road Motorized Vehicle policy, which states "There shall be no use of off road motorized vehicles on the UAF Fairbanks campus other than use designated as work related." Violators of this policy will be considered to be trespassing and the trespass will be enforced by the police per state law.

The Alaska Native Language Program recently received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Athabascan languages of Upper Tanana, Tanacross and Dena'ina. The grant will be dispersed over five years and is held in partnership with the Interior Athabascan Tribal College, the Alaska Gateway School District and Lake and Peninsula School District.

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Karen Perdue, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, has accepted a position on President Hamilton's executive staff as an associate vice president. Perdue will implement a $485,000 grant to coordinate and enhance UA health and human service programs.

The University of Alaska Press recently published "Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park" by Timothy Rawson. This book chronicles the evolving views of both the role of wolves in a natural ecosystem and the purpose of the parks. For more information about this or other UA Press titles visit http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/.

UAF's accreditation self-study for the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges is complete and available on the web at http://www.uaf.edu/provost/ accreditation/. An evaluation team will visit Fairbanks Oct. 8-10 and rural campuses Oct. 3-5, and present preliminary findings at a public meeting in Fairbanks Oct. 10. The team will submit its final report in December to the association. If you have items or suggestions for the exhibit room for the evaluators, please contact Hild Peters at fnhmp@uaf.edu.

The current draft of the campus master plan is posted at http://www.uaf.edu/mastplan. Informational meetings will be held at the Noel Wien Library Sept. 25, 4:30-6:30 p.m. and Sept. 26 from 5-7 p.m. at Hess Cybercafe at the Moore-Bartlett-Skarland Complex. Your ideas, comments and questions about the master planning process are welcome. Contact Project Manager Carol Adamczak at 5299.

Joy Morrison, the provost's associate for faculty development, attended the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. Course work at the four-week institute included units on the academic, external and institutional environments of higher education, and professional development opportunities.

The UAF Cooperative Extension Service recently hired two 4-H and youth development agents. Nancy Veal was selected as the agent for the Kenai Peninsula district and Derylee Hecimovich will work as the agent for the Copper River/Mat-Su district.

The UAF Bookstore welcomes Steve Tate as its new textbook coordinator. For information about textbook adoption or requests contact him at 5088 or fnslt@uaf.edu.

The UAF Weekly Science Calendar will resume publication for fall semester on Sept. 10. The calendar is available on the web at www.cgc.uaf.edu/calendar.html.
To submit an item or to be added to the distribution list contact Barb Severin at 5818 or cgc@iarc.uaf.edu.

The UAF Cheer Team is searching for a volunteer coach. For more information contact Lydia at 7037.

The Division of Family and Youth Services and the Alaska Foster Parent Training Center are seeking Fairbanks area families interested in foster care or adoption. Training and preparation for providing foster or adoptive homes is available. Call Laurie Hildenbrand at DFYS, 451-2095, or the Alaska Foster Parent Training Center at 1-800-478-7307.

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The Fall 2001 Student Job Fair deadline for registration is Sept. 7. The fair will be held Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Wood Center. For more information or to register contact Career Services at 7596 or email careerservices@uaf.edu.

The UA Museum Saturday Family Program, "Alaska's Amazing Mysteries: Earthquakes, Polar Bears and Blue Babe," well be held Sept. 8 from 10 a.m. - noon. The event is for children ages 7 - 12 and costs $15 per child. For more information or to register call 6948.

Faculty presentations, "The Culture of Classroom Assessment" for new faculty Sept. 11 from 12:30 - 2 p.m. and "Finding Out How Well Students are Learning What We're Teaching: an Introduction to Classroom Assessment" for all faculty Sept. 12 from 2 - 5 p.m., will both be held in the Rasmuson Library room 340. The presentations are being led by Tom Angelo, Director of the Assessment Center at Depaul University's School for New Learning. For more information contact Joy Morrison at 6249 or ffjfm@uaf.edu.

The UA Museum Geist Lecture "Photography on the Wild Side" will be held
Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. Wildlife photographers Tom Walker and Ken Whitten will discuss challenges of photography in Alaska's backcountry. Admission is free. For more information call 7505.

University survival skills and ethics workshops are being offered through Feburary 2002. Each workshop is devoted to a particular skill, is self-contained and presents ethical dimensions of the skill. The first workshop, "Training for Success," will be held Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. - noon. Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 at the door for each session. Participants choosing the one-credit pass/fail option will be charged an additional $25. For more information contact UAF Summer Sessions at 7021 or summer@uaf.edu.

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Karen Colligan-Taylor, CLA, recently received a literary award for her translation and analysis of the works of agronomist-poet Miyazawa Kenji. The award will be presented at a ceremony Sept. 22 at the Miyazawa Kenji Institute in Hanamaki City, Japan.

The University Fire Department was recently selected to receive a $306,444 Community Fire Assistance grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The money will be used to purchase fire apparatus and is intended to help support local fire service efforts to make communities safer.

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The Mt. McKinley Bank North Star Invitational is bringing NCAA Division I women's basketball to Fairbanks. The Lady Nanooks will host teams from Long Beach State, Northern Illinois University and Western Illinois University at the Patty Center Nov. 23 -24.

Melissa Mulloy, UAF rifle team senior, was recently named the NCAA Woman of the Year for Alaska. The NCAA Woman of the Year will be chosen from 10 finalists selected from the state winners.

The annual UAF Fun Bus Trip will be held Sept. 22 beginning at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited to 110 people. Tickets cost $100 per person or $150 per couple and include dinner, refreshments, entertainment and a raffle ticket. For more information contact Kip Harmon at 6830.

Welcome Back
From Marshall Lind

Welcome to the start of the 2001 fall semester. As you look around the Fairbanks campus, you can see visible signs everywhere that we're building Alaska's future. Perhaps the most important part of UAF's future is to be known first and foremost as a university that focuses on students. As we greet a new class of freshmen, the sense of anticipation is as clear as the changing colors sweeping the stands of birch and aspen surrounding the campus.

Buildings that have served as prime examples of deferred maintenance needs for far too long will soon be revitalized. The beep and buzz of construction, the white ATCO trailers, huge cranes and exterior scaffolding are tangible evidence that things are changing for the better.

Our master planning effort has helped identify special places on campus and areas that need improvement. The current draft of the master plan is now available for review. It's the culmination of five months of work, involving a wide range of participants from the campus and the Fairbanks community. I encourage you to continue to provide input as you help us build the campus of the future.

Many of the changes are subtle - new pathways, sidewalks and green spaces have been designed to complement the way students use the campus. The Taku stairs near the Farmer's Loop entrance are gone, replaced by a switchback sidewalk. The stairs were failing to the point where they were unsafe. New stairs at the same location aren't an option because of the unstable hillside.

In addition to the physical changes to our campus, changes are underway within our core academic programs. I was pleased with the Aug. 10 editorial in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner for recognizing our efforts to provide programs to meet Alaska's employment needs and educate its citizens. The prospects for UAF and Alaska are full of opportunity and promise. Thank you for your part in helping to build Alaska's future.


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