RAHI graduation ceremony planned
July 9, 2012
UAF’s Rural Alaska Honors Institute will honor RAHI students at a graduation ceremony Wednesday, July 11, at 1 p.m. in
Schaible Auditorium with a public reception to follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Regents
Great Hall. More than 50 students from 32 communities across Alaska participated.
Seven of the 2012 students are second generation RAHI students, meaning their one
or both of their parents attended RAHI as high school students.They spent six weeks living in UAF residence halls, building their academic skills and learning firsthand about college life. They earned up to 10 college credits.
Organized in 1983 at the request of the Alaska Federation of Natives, RAHI aims to help increase college success for rural and Alaska Native students. Hundreds of RAHI graduates have gone on to earn graduate, baccalaureate and associate degrees. Many have joined Alaska’s professional workforce and many more are pursuing post-secondary education.
This year’s graduation keynote speaker, Sarah Sherry Obed, is a 1996 RAHI alumna from Minto and Fairbanks. She has a bachelor's degree in American Indian Studies from the University of Washington and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.