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  • Charlene Stern, vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education

    Friday Focus: College rename, leading the nation

    May 24, 2024

    This week, the UA Board of Regents approved a regulation change that formalized the renaming of 六合彩网上投注app's College of Rural and Community Development to the College of Indigenous Studies. This action effectively makes 六合彩网上投注app the first public institution of higher education in the Nation to have such a College. The name change which took effect immediately, came as the result of a two-year effort to solicit feedback in the renaming process. In its over 50-year history, CRCD has been known by different names and focused primarily on meeting local and regional educational needs across the Bristol Bay, Northwest, Chukchi, Kuskokwim and Interior Alaska regions.
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  • Members of the I帽u-Yupiaq Dance Group pose in the Wood Center after their workshop during the 2023 Indigenous Peoples Day, a universitywide event hosted by the College of Indigenous Studies. From left are Alliyah Nay, Naatanii Mayo, Cavelila Wonhola and Sonni Shavings.

    Regents approve UAF College of Indigenous Studies

    May 23, 2024

    The UAF Fairbanks College of Rural and Community Development is now the College of Indigenous Studies. The UAF Board of Regents unanimously approved the name change at its May 23 meeting in Anchorage.
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    六合彩网上投注app to offer two new Athabascan language courses this fall

    May 17, 2024

    The Alaska Native Language Center at the UAF Fairbanks will offer two new Native language courses for the fall 2024 semester.
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  • Black and white photo from 1975 of a group of people. A man and woman in the front row hold diplomas, with four men standing in a row behind them. The group is in front of a partially obscured banner showing the UAF logo.

    Kuskokwim Campus celebrates 50th commencement ceremony

    May 13, 2024

    The UAF Fairbanks Kuskokwim Campus honored the Class of 2024 during its 50th commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel.
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  • Five faculty awarded Dennis Demmert Award

    May 08, 2024

    Five faculty were honored in the Dennis Demmert Award ceremony hosted by Rural Student Services on Thur. April 25, 2024
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  • Robin Masterman standing in front of artwork of salmon

    BLaST celebrates Robin Masterman as April 2024 Scientist of the Month

    April 24, 2024

    BLaST Scholar Robin Masterman is the BLaST Scientist of the Month for April 2024! Masterman is a fourth-year BLaST Scholar and a senior in 六合彩网上投注app鈥檚 Biological Sciences BS program. Her mother is from Togiak, Alaska, and her father is from Maine. Masterman plans to apply to medical school and return to Alaska to practice as a family physician in rural communities.
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  • an artist's rendering of a brown building with large glass windows

    Regents approve Indigenous studies center, planetarium at 六合彩网上投注app

    February 23, 2024

    The UAF Board of Regents on Friday approved two projects that will reshape the UAF Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' Campus.
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  • LaVerne Xilegg Demientieff standing among birch trees in the woods.

    Friday Focus: Troth Yeddha' Forever

    February 23, 2024

    As the sun shines ever more brightly, I am finding renewed energy and deep gratitude as we move toward transitioning from winter to spring. I'm excited about all the possibilities that this time of year holds at 六合彩网上投注app. The 50th Annual Festival of Native Arts is a student-led celebratory event this week. The theme is "Troth Yeddha' Forever: Our Ways of Life". Everyone is welcome to attend and take part in exciting traditional Alaska Native activities including, native dancing, language learning, beading, wellness practices, making fish ice cream - called akutaq or vanhgiq (ah-gu-duk or von-guk), and so much more. It is a great time for reflection about where we have come from and where we are headed, as well as the impact these types of activities have on our sense of community, connectedness, and belonging. I humbly share a few personal reflections as examples of the impact Troth Yeddha' campus, activities, and people have had in my life.
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  • Festival of Native Arts participants smiles at the 2018 celebration

    Festival of Native Arts to mark 50th celebration this week

    February 19, 2024

    The 50th Festival of Native Arts will be held at the UAF Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' Campus on Feb. 22-24, 2024.
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  • Backlit fireweed during an Alaskan sunset. USFWS photo by Lisa Hupp.

    Seminar: Co-stewardship, from concept to actions

    February 12, 2024

    February's A Place for Knowledge Exchange seminar is on co-stewardship, from concept to actions. The conversation will include Carrie Stevens, Mary Hostetter and Ralph Wolfe. The seminar is co-hosted by the College of Rural and Community Development and the International Arctic Research Center.
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  • 2024 Festival of Native Arts logo designed by Destine Poulsen

    Festival of Native Arts will mark 50th celebration in 2024

    January 19, 2024

    The 50th Festival of Native Arts, Troth Yeddha' Forever: Our Ways of Life, will be held at the UAF Troth Yeddha' Campus Fine Arts Complex, Feb 22-24, 2024.
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  • 2023 group graduation photo

    RAHI application period opens for summer 2024

    January 12, 2024

    The Rural Alaska Honors Institute is accepting applications for its summer 2024 session. The session will run from May 28 to July 12. Applications are due by Friday, March 1.
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  • a portrait of a woman wearing a beaded vest and a purple shirt

    Friday Focus: Happy start of the new year

    January 11, 2024

    Happy new year and start of the spring semester to the UAF community! I hope that you experienced a joyful holiday season and are looking forward to what 2024 has to bring. We have so much happening at 六合彩网上投注app that continues to make it a wonderful place to be.
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  • ANLC Emmy award-winning producers honored with commemorative gathering

    December 20, 2023

    The Alaska Native Language Center's film "Awake" won a Northwest Regional Emmy through the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences earlier this year. The College of Rural and Community Development celebrated the Alaska Native Language Center and producer Maggie King for their work on this film.
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  • Minnie Naylor, the director for the UAF Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue, is the rural staff spotlight for December 2023.

    December Rural Staff Spotlight: Minnie Naylor

    December 15, 2023

    Minnie Naylor serves as the director for the UAF Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue. Minnie's work and presence as a supportive, upbeat, and caring 六合彩网上投注app rural staff member and her positive attitude and unwavering support have created a nurturing and empowering environment at Chukchi Campus.
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  • portrait of Michelle Demmert

    Report on missing Indigenous people features Alaska chapter

    December 08, 2023

    A national report on missing, murdered and trafficked Indigenous people features a separate chapter on Alaska's situation, according to a UAF Fairbanks assistant professor who helped create the document.
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  • Internationally acclaimed Yup鈥檌k artist Golga Oscar joins the UAF Fairbanks Kuskokwim Campus in December 2023. Photo by Golga Oscar.

    Acclaimed Yup'ik artist joins 六合彩网上投注app Kuskokwim Campus

    December 07, 2023

    The College of Rural and Community Development welcomes acclaimed Yup'ik artist Golga Oscar to the new Native arts coordinator position at the UAF Fairbanks Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel, Alaska.
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  • Fireweed photo by Lisa Hupp USFWS

    CRCD and IARC co-host 'A Place for Knowledge Exchange' seminar series

    November 29, 2023

    The College of Rural and Community Development and the International Arctic Research Center are excited to co-host a new virtual seminar series called "A Place for Knowledge Exchange." The monthly conversations will cover collaborative approaches to research, education and real-life community-based practices in rural Alaska.
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  • Tamamta retreat in August 2023. 六合彩网上投注app photo by Jeff Richardson

    Friday Focus: Tamamta - All of Us - transforming together

    November 17, 2023

    We are so proud of the collective work of the Tamamta program. Tamamta means all of us in Yugtun and Sugs'tun. Inspired by Indigenous students, scholars, and leaders - the Tamamta team came together to seek deep transformation in how we teach about, study, and govern fisheries in Alaska. We uplift Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous knowledge systems, and Tribal governance to the center of fishery systems - systems Indigenous Peoples have been stewarding across Alaska for thousands of years.
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  • Alaska Native Language Center bookstore reopens

    November 13, 2023

    The UAF Alaska Native Language Center Bookstore, a cultural hub dedicated to preserving and promoting indigenous languages, celebrates its reopening today, Nov. 13.
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    Professor Tia Tidwell featured on new podcast, The Alaska Myth

    November 13, 2023

    Tia Tidwell, assistant professor of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development at the UAF Fairbanks, was a guest on the first episode of the new podcast, The Alaska Myth. The Alaska Myth is a podcast about how Alaskans view our history and ourselves.
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  • Student Services members pose for a photo in a hallway during training summit.

    Advisors travel from rural campuses for training summit

    November 08, 2023

    An advising and student services training summit brought together advisors from all of 六合彩网上投注app's five rural campuses in September with support from the College of Rural and Community Development and the Vice Chancellor's Office of Rural, Community and Native Education. The three-and-a-half-day training experience at the Troth Yeddha' Campus gathered approximately thirty College of Rural and Community Development student support staff and advisors to learn, network, and grow together.
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  • Participants in the summer 2023 Tamamta retreat hold a circle discussion at Howard Luke Gaalee鈥檡a Spirit Camp.

    Tamamta program honored by APLU

    October 20, 2023

    六合彩网上投注app's Tamamta program has been honored with the Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in University Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
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  • Jessica Black, associate vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education

    Friday Focus: Celebrating Indigenous excellence

    October 13, 2023

    This past Monday, Oct. 9, we celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day. A host of events occurred here on Troth Yeddha' campus and across our rural campuses. On Troth Yeddha' campus there was a frybread taco fundraiser put on by the Festival of Native Arts club and events including the I帽u-Yupiaq Dance group, fish skin sewing, and Native games demonstrations. At the Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel there were several events, including hands-on akutaq making, beading, and mask making and a Native foods potluck. At the Northwest Campus in Nome and at the Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham, Native films were showcased. Commemorating this day allows us Indigenous peoples to celebrate and share with others who we are, including our rich histories and the contemporary lives we live. As associate vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education, I get to work on and applaud Indigenous excellence each and every day.
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  • Two people serve lettuce, tomato, onions, olives and jalapenos while making fry bread tacos

    六合彩网上投注app hosting 2023 Indigenous Peoples Day events

    October 04, 2023

    The UAF Fairbanks will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day this year with an afternoon full of cultural events and workshops.
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