Without new federal aid, Alaska’s pandemic-driven economic woes could become a long-term nightmare
Without help, coronavirus could leave long-term scars on Alaska’s economy.
Without help, coronavirus could leave long-term scars on Alaska’s economy.
And after a blissfully not-at-all-peaceful year for us, Arduin has once again appeared back in Alaska.
A stable university is one that people will attend, she says.
Regardless, let’s consider the implications of promises made by the wave of challengers who beat some of Alaska’s most effective fiscal conservatives.
Pat Pitney will be heading back to the University of Alaska.
After Johnsen was named the lone finalist for the top job at the University of Wisconsin, several professor groups say the process should have been restarted.
The plan calls for them to come up with a conceptual plan for merging UAS into UAF, but it specifically calls for other options.
“The University of Alaska is facing immediate and significant financial headwinds brought on by state budget cuts, enrollment and tuition declines and budget impacts visited upon us by the COVID-19 crisis. And like the virus itself, this budget challenge is real, painful, and one that demands that we take swift action to protect our university and its critical mission and service to Alaskans.”
Alaska’s financial position is complicated and politically expedient, simplistic solutions should have no place in the discussion.
The most significant proposal in front of the Board of Regents will be to fold University of Alaska Southeast into UAA or UAF.