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May 2, 2001
UAS Commencement May 6

More than 200 students have earned degrees this year at the University of Alaska Southeast Juneau campus. They will be honored at commencement, 2 p.m., May 6 at Centennial Hall.

Among those earning bachelor degrees will be the first students in Environmental Science, the university's newest degree program. More than 30 students have earned Master of Arts in Teaching or Master of Education degrees. The university will award 37 degrees for Bachelor of Business Administration, 35 for Bachelor of Liberal Arts, 39 for Associate of Arts, and 22 for Associate of Applied Science.

The commencement speaker is former Alaska Senator Arliss Sturgulewski. She served in the senate from 1978 - 1988. Sturgulewski also served on the Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, as an advisor to the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, and was a member of the American delegation to the United Nations Conference on Women in Kenya.

There will be two student speakers. Tia Anderson is the current student president who is earning a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree. Ernestine Hayes is a non-traditional student who has returned to school as an adult. She is an accomplished storyteller and is graduating magna cum laude (3.8 gpa) with Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Literature.

Josh Horst is a former UAS student president who was later appointed to the University of Alaska Board of Regents. He is completing his 2-year term as a regent at the same time he is earning his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from UAS.

The university will also award an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree to Nora Marks Dauenhauer. She is internationally recognized for her fieldwork, transcription, translation and explication of Tlingit oral literature.

"She is an extraordinary bridge between the worlds of traditional Tlingit and modern America," former Juneau School District Superintendent Mary Rubadeau wrote in her nomination letter. "Having been raised Tlingit, in the lore, language, and culture of that nation, and then having turned her attention to scholarship, she has lived and prospered in both worlds, and brought them together in a way unlike any other scholar that comes to mind."

University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton will attend the ceremony that will be presided over by UAS Chancellor John Pugh. Ursa Major String Ensemble will provide music. The public is welcome to attend the UAS commencement.

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