Goal: Student Success
The University will provide the learning environment, support systems, academic programs, facilities, technology, and faculty to enhance the learning opportunities for our students, with their diverse needs, interests, capabilities, and ambitions. We seek to increase the number and share of traditional and non-traditional students attending a University campus. We are particularly committed to the success of Alaska Native students.
Strategy: Focus on Student Learning
Excellent educational institutions set high standards, assess student progress against these standards, and recognize student achievement. Excellent institutions also support faculty growth and development as a means of enhancing student learning.
Assure student learning is the center of the educational programs.
A key aspect of UAS' student success is the emphasis on experiential learning, using university's unique location and favorable faculty-to-student ratio to provide valuable mentoring relationships for students.
- Extend opportunities for learning and participation to the larger community through special programs and events.
- Provide exchange opportunities for students at institutions of higher education in other states and abroad.
- Provide technology and services which support and enhance learning.
- Expand access to written and electronic information resources.
Develop and implement student academic support services that can be accessed by both distance and on-campus students.
Student academic success relies not only on excellent teaching but also on the quality of the student’s total college experience. To enhance success, UAS will:
- Ensure that each student has access to appropriate and continued academic advising.
- Provide academic and personal counseling services.
- Strengthen learning support services.
- Provide career counseling and internship services.
Foster a campus community that supports the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body
Foster a campus community that supports the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body.
- Selectively recruit students from Alaska and elsewhere who indicate an interest in programs provided by UAS.
- Develop articulation agreements with 2-year colleges in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to formalize transfer opportunities.
- Develop and implement a campus diversity plan.
- Increase recruitment and retention of under-represented student populations.
- Establish enrollment, retention, and persistence goals based on capacity in academic programs, academic support, student affairs, and facilities.
- Develop an overall plan for student migration into degree programs.
- Tailor support services to the unique needs of Alaskan Native and rural Alaskan students.
- Develop strategies for improving campus climate.
Provide Enhanced Access to Administration and Financial Services
Provide Enhanced Access to Administration and Financial Services
- Administrative offices in Juneau will move to the Auke Lake Campus to provide greater access for faculty, students and staff.
- Enhance student job opportunities, including placement in administrative units.
- Expand services in the UAS Bookstore, including e-purchasing.
- Involve administrative staff in active support of student life functions.
