Enroll in Classes
UAS is an open enrollment institution, this means that practically anyone can take a class at UAS as long as they meet the course pre-requisites. So why wait? Register today!
Take Placement Tests
You may need to take placement tests if you have no previous college level mathematics or English courses, or to assess your computer skills if you are taking computer courses..
What is a Placement Test?
A placement test is simply an assessment in mathematics, English or computer information that helps ensure you get into the level of class that is right for you, not too hard and not too easy. They can also serve as a prerequisite to get into a specific class.
Where can you take a Placement test?
On campus -Placement tests are available on all three UAS campuses, in Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka. Placement tests are offered regularly, no appointment necessary. For more information, check out the Learning Center site for details.
Off campus -If you are not able to get to Juneau, Ketchikan or Sitka, you can still take the placement tests remotely by distance. Since the placement tests are offered online, you can take them anywhere you can find a proctor and an internet connection. If you are near any of the UA campuses (UAS, UAA or UAF) you can use their testing facilities and the staff can proctor your tests, otherwise a school teacher, city/town/village official, or clergy member can act as your proctor. To get started, simply fill out and complete the Remote Testing form.
Work with Advisor
An advisor is a member of the UAS Advising staff or faculty member. Academic Advisors meet with you to discuss degree requirements, answer any questions, help navigate UAS resources and plan out degree completion.
Academic Advising is important because the interactive relationship you have with your advisor will help with identifying, planning, and achieving academic and career goals. Academic advising is required of all newly admitted students, and an excellent habit to get into.
How do you know which advisor to contact? Below are the different schools/departments and the advisors available in those areas.
| ↑General Advising / Student Resource Center / Juneau Campus | |
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 Academic Advisor Phone: 796-6000 Email: ajtriplett@uas.alaska.edu SRC: Academic Advising Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/advising Biography:Born and raised on a farm in central Ohio, Amanda moved to Juneau in 2004 to attend UAS. Although she had never been to Alaska, she was instantly hooked and never looked back. The beautiful campus, amazing professors, friendly staff and small class size allowed her to excel in her studies and graduate with a BLA. Now Amanda takes her passion of UAS all over the state talking to prospective students about the amazing opportunities that UAS can offer them. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys speeding time with her family, camping, fishing, and skating with the Juneau Rollergirls. | |
| ↑General Advising / Student Services / Ketchikan | |
 Academic Advisor Phone: 228-4505 , Fax: 225-3624 Email: cphoyt@uas.alaska.edu Student Resource Center Ketchikan Campus Education:M.P.A., University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Courses Taught:HUM 101 - College Success Skills Biography:Alaska: I’ve lived in Ketchikan for most of my life. We moved here when I was about seven, from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Zoiks how time flies! I absolutely love Alaska! I’ve been all over the state including: Palmer, Kodiak, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Metlakatla, Prince of Wales Island, and many points in-between. I still want to see more! Yes the weather is adverse, the summers sometimes lack sunshine, but hey, where else can you experience all four seasons in five minutes, catch a 250 lb halibut, see 100 Bald Eagles in one setting, watch a pod of Killer whales swim through the channel, meet people from all over the world, and call it home? My Job: I am a Student Services Coordinator on the Ketchikan Campus. I love working with people, helping them find their way through college, and especially hearing their stories. Students often come into my office and tell me how well, or not, they are doing at any given time in their academic career. It is in these conversations that students really get a chance to talk to someone about their dreams and their ambitions, their trials, defeats, and successes! I love to see the look on student’s faces when I tell them their goals and dreams are possible and that I can help them find the way to attain them. More than anything else, I love to see students succeed at their goals; to see them experience the joy of coming from a place of indecision and trepidation to a place of certainty and confidence. My Life: I have a strong passion for film making and for writing. I have two favorite thoughts permanently affixed in my private and public life: “I shall not pass this way again, any good thing I can do or any kindness I can show let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again” – Atienne De Grollet | |
 Student Services Manager Phone: 228-4508 , Fax: 225-3624 Email: grklein@uas.alaska.edu Ketchikan Campus Education:B.B.A, University of Alaska Fairbanks Biography:I've loved living in Alaska since I first arrived here at the tender age of 2. I've been blessed to see much of the state having lived in Chugiak, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Ketchikan. The beauty and serenity of this special place we live (even with the large amounts of rain) is inspiring. After graduating from a little Alaskan high school (we had a graduating class of 18 students) I attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks, graduating with a BA in Business Administration in 1990. I 've had the pleasure of working with college students for over eighteen years and I am inspired by the perseverance of our students as well as the power of education to help students change their lives for the better. Other:Specialities: Transfer students, nursing, social work, business students | |
 Assistant Professor of Sociology Phone: 228-4527 , Fax: 225-3624 Email: wlurquhartii@uas.alaska.edu Arts and Sciences Department, Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Sociology, Ketchikan Campus Education:Ph.D., MA, Tulane University William Urquhart’s recent doctoral dissertation on school violence and bullying includes ethnographic and statistical studies at a remote Western Alaska village and at an inner-city high school in pre-Katrina New Orleans. This work emphasizes the importance of social account conversations in defining peer group norms for retaliation in disadvantaged areas, and will soon be published in book form as a monograph. His other research interests include Alaskan social problems such as alcoholism and domestic violence, and organizational behavior perspectives on workplace violence. Currently, he is investigating the effect of climatic temperature variation on seasonal domestic violence rate cycles in northern states. He enjoys teaching distance education classes, and some of his course offerings include Theory and Research in Criminology, Social Psychology, and Alaska Social Problems; Deviant Behavior, Organizational Behavior, and Environmental Sociology. Biography:Bill was born and raised in Ketchikan, following four generations of Alaska commercial fishermen, prospectors, and pioneer women. His interest in sociology was piqued through his early experiences commercial fishing with his family, where he observed social change affecting the organizational structure of the industry. Since returning to Alaska from New Orleans in 2002 for dissertation research, Bill has lived in several areas of the state, including time working as an educator and wrestling coach in Western Alaska and in Fairbanks. In addition to serving as an instructor at UAS, Bill is an independent consultant to several Alaska school districts, working with student information systems and federal and state data reporting. Bill also plays the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes; he is the Lead Bagpiper with Ketchikan’s Misty Thistle Pipes & Drums, and also performs at select solo engagements. Bill enjoys spending his spare time with his wife Frankie, a science teacher in Ketchikan, and their small children, Liam, Neila, and Torran. Other:Advising contact for all distance-based students in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree. | |
| ↑General Advising / Student Success Center / Sitka | |
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 Academic Advisor, Student Success Center Phone: 747-7781 | |
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| ↑School of Arts and Sciences | |
 Advising Coordinator, School of Arts & Sciences Phone: 796-6201 Email: asadvising@uas.alaska.edu Arts and Sciences Department Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/arts_sciences Other:Advising contact for all Arts & Science Degrees, including:
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 Advising Coordinator, School of Arts & Sciences Phone: 796-6201 Email: Laura.Hosey@uas.alaska.edu Arts and Sciences Department Juneau Campus Other:Advising contact for all Arts & Science Degrees. | |
| ↑Career Education | |
 Program Coordinator, Career Education Phone: 796-6151 , Fax: 796-6751 Email: colby.shibler@uas.alaska.edu Career Education Technical Education Center, TEC 222 Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/career_ed/ Other:Advising contact for all Applied Tech Degrees, including:
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 Program Coordinator, Career Education Phone: 796-6128 , Fax: 796-6577 Email: elizabeth.williams@uas.alaska.edu Career Education Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/healthscience/index.html Other:Contact for Health Science programs, including: Certificates, HIM Coding Specialist, Healthcare Privacy, Pre-Nursing Qualification, and Pre-Radiologic Technology --also—AAS, Health Information Management, Health Sciences, and Nursing through UAA. | |
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| ↑School of Education | |
 Associate Professor of Education Phone: 796-6404 | |
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| ↑Additional Advising / Student Resource Center | |
 Coordinator, Academic Exchange and Study Abroad Phone: 796-6455 Email: Marsha.Squires@uas.alaska.edu SRC: Academic Exchanges and Study Abroad Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/exchanges Other:Advising contact for all international students, exchange students, and back-up advisor for general advising through the Student Resource Center (SRC). | |
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 Disability Services and Counseling Services and Safe Zone Coordinator Phone: 796-6465 Email: mwthomson@uas.alaska.edu | |
How To Register
Online:
- New and returning students may register through UAOnline
- If you are new to UAS and are not seeking a degree:
- First apply as a "non-degree seeking" student through UAOnline (choose: Apply for Admission).
- Once you complete your application, the signature page will appear and it will explain how to login to UAOnline immediately. After 48 hours, a student ID number will be generated and you will then login using that number.
Paper:
- You can complete and sign a Registration form (76KB), then fax, scan into an email, mail or drop it off in person.
- Fax: Juneau 907-796-6365 | Ketchikan 907-225-3624 | Sitka 907-747-7793
- Email:registrar@uas.alaska.edu
- Mail: UAS Registrar's Office,
- Address: 11120 Glacier Hwy., Juneau AK. 99801
Call us if you need any assistance!
- Juneau 907-796-6100
- Ketchikan 907-225-6177
- Sitka 907-747-6653
Types of Registration
Priority Registration
In general, only UAS degree-seeking students will be able to register in UAS courses during priority registration. However, program students affiliated with UAF program in Geography are welcome to register for program courses offered through UAS during priority registration.
You should always meet with your Academic Advisor prior to registering for classes. To find out more about advising, visit the Academic Advising site.
Open Registration
All students are welcome to register during open registration.
Log-in to Class Website
You will have access to several secure online resources after registering at UAS:
- Easy Login Maintenance Option: retrieve your Username and setup your Password through ELMO
- Courses: Your online course site UAS Online!
- Email: All official university correspondence will be sent to your UA student email account. Be sure to check it often or set forwarding to any commercial account you prefer. You may also choose your "preferred" email account through UAOnline under 'Personal Information'.
Username - typically your first and middle initials and full/partial last name and possibly including number. For example, if your name is Allie Susan Duncan, your username may be asduncan. Your username and password is used for:
- login to computers at UAS
- access to your UAS webmail
- access to your class websites at UASOnline
Student ID Number - an eight digit number (for example, 3xxxxxxx) is automatically assigned to you on your first attendance at UAS. This student ID# corresponds to your student records in the UAS database. Your student ID# is used to access:
- UAOnline- access to your UAS student records such as applications and registration, grades, financial aid, student account, class schedule, etc. (This can be in person, over the phone, or online through UAOnline.)
- uses a PIN
There are multiple systems that you will be using throughout your career at UAS, and keeping track of them can be a little tricky. Here is a list of systems you may be using and why/how you will access them:
| System: | Log in with: | Used for: |
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| UASOnline | username | email, computer log in, class homesites |
| UAOnline | Student ID | applications, accounts, financial aid, registration, transcripts |
| Webmail | username | UAS email account |
| Blackboard | username | class site - part of UASOnline |
| ELMO | either | reset password |
| Elluminate | username | class site - part of UASOnline |
Still have questions? Call the Helpdesk at 907-796-6400 or check out their site for useful information.
It is important to login to your classes in order to interact with your classmates, instructor, access important documents, view your grade and submit assignments.
It is important to also login to your UAS webmail account because almost all of the emails from UAS will be sent to your UAS email. This includes financial aid, registration, important notices, course information, as well as faculty interaction.
Purchase your Books
...you will need to go to the UAS Bookstore.
The Bookstore is located at 11798 Glacier Hwy Juneau, AK 99801. Open Monday through Saturday. Books are located in the back of the store, sorted alphabetically. It is handy to take your course schedule with the course numbers (ie. ENGL 111) and section (ie. J01).
...and the section number begins with K (ie KD1 or K01), you will need to order your textbooks from MBS Direct or other bookstore of your choice.
MBS book orders can be placed by phone, mail, or online. Students should place their orders early (generally 7 to 10 days before class starts) to allow time for shipping.
To contact MBS directly:
Phone: 1-800-325-3252
Online: http://direct.mbsbooks.com/ualaska.htm
Mail: MBS Direct
PO Box 597
Columbia, MO 65205
Please note, MBS is our preferred provider, but you are not required to use them. For your protection, order by ISBN number (located on MBS web site) to ensure you have the correct book and edition when ordering from another book seller.
...and the section number begins with T or UT (ie TD1, T01 or UT1), you will need to order your textbooks from MBS Direct or other bookstore of your choice.
MBS book orders can be placed by phone, mail, or online. Students should place their orders early (generally 7 to 10 days before class starts) to allow time for shipping.
To contact MBS directly:
Phone: 1-800-325-3252
Online: http://direct.mbsbooks.com/ualaska.htm
Mail: MBS Direct
PO Box 597
Columbia, MO 65205
Please note, MBS is our preferred provider, but you are not required to use them. For your protection, order by ISBN number (located on MBS web site) to ensure you have the correct book and edition when ordering from another book seller.
...and the section number begins with KD, JD, TD or UT (ie JD1, KD1, TD1 or UT1), you will need to order your textbooks from MBS Direct or other bookstore of your choice.
MBS book orders can be placed by phone, mail, or online. Students should place their orders early (generally 7 to 10 days before class starts) to allow time for shipping.
To contact MBS directly:
Phone: 1-800-325-3252
Online: http://direct.mbsbooks.com/ualaska.htm
Mail: MBS Direct
PO Box 597
Columbia, MO 65205
Please note, MBS is our preferred provider, but you are not required to use them. For your protection, order by ISBN number (located on MBS web site) to ensure you have the correct book and edition when ordering from another book seller.
...check out their online bookstore sites.
- UAA Bookstore
- Questions? Call 907-786-1151
- UAF Bookstore
- Questions? Call 877-651-4002
...and want to charge books to your Financial Aid, you must first submit a voucher to the UAS Bookstore before ordering books through MBS Direct.
If you choose to use a financial aid voucher, be aware that you will not receive the voucher until after all your financial aid forms have been completed, processed, submitted, and your financial aid has been approved.
To obtain a Student Financial Aid MBS Book Voucher, follow these steps:
- Fill out the book voucher and send it to the Financial Aid office;
- UAS will notify MBS Direct to generate a voucher when your financial aid has been approved and is available for purchasing books;
- When your voucher is available, MBS Books will send you e-mail notification to the e-mail address you provide
- Once you receive the e-mail notification, you can then go online and order your books at http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/ualaska.htm. Please allow for 1 week processing time after order is placed.