Our mission is to prepare versatile journalists who are ably suited to enhance the profession in Alaska and elsewhere. The Department is committed to the development of professional skills, critical thinking and journalistic ethics.

Retention rates reflect students who maintained their status as Journalism Majors from their first year to their second year, from one fall semester to the next.

The statistics do not reflect students who later switched their major to Journalism or added Journalism as a second major.

Data comes from UA Information Systems: Banner SI Closing Extracts 2003-2013.

As this chart indicates, many of our students initially pursue other disciplines before settling on Journalism as a major. Work on UAF's Sun Star newspaper, KSUA radio and other campus media often serves as a recruiting tool for the program. Again, these figures reflect only fall class enrollment and excludes students taking classes before acceptance into the B.A. degree path.

* Baccalaureate-intended students are not included.

Data comes from UA Information Systems: Banner SI Closing Extracts 2003-2013.

University data offers a broader perspective on Journalism's program interest, graduation stats, ethnic makeup of our students and credit-hour delivery.    

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A student seeking more than one degree, or changing major during a fiscal year, is counted more than once, except on the "unduplicated headcount" line.  The unduplicated headcount is futher broken down in the next table.

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The average number of awards per degree, major, and year over the five-year period (as reported in the previous table), divided by the average count of majors over those same years.

Reported only for programes with at least one major in the respective years.

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Courses taught by the department during the regular fall and spring terms are listed on the "developmental", "lower", "upper" and "grad" lines.  Courses taught by Summer Sessions, the Center for Distance Education and rural campuses are pooled and reported on the "Outside" line.  Only departmentally produced credit hours are considered when evaluating teaching effort and faculty productivity.  All data in this section taken from Banner closing freezes.

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"Service Teaching" is defined here as the number of credit hours a department delivers to students who are not seeking a degree from that same department.