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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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RAHI application period opens for summer 2024

January 12, 2024

The Rural »¨½·Ö±²¥ 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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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 UAF 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 »¨½·Ö±²¥ 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 »¨½·Ö±²¥ Native Language Center and producer Maggie King for their work on this film.
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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 UAF rural staff member and her positive attitude and unwavering support have created a nurturing and empowering environment at Chukchi Campus.
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Report on missing Indigenous people features »¨½·Ö±²¥ chapter

December 08, 2023

A national report on missing, murdered and trafficked Indigenous people features a separate chapter on »¨½·Ö±²¥'s situation, according to a »¨½·Ö±²¥ assistant professor who helped create the document.
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Acclaimed Yup'ik artist joins UAF 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 »¨½·Ö±²¥ Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel, »¨½·Ö±²¥.
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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 »¨½·Ö±²¥.
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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 »¨½·Ö±²¥. We uplift Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous knowledge systems, and Tribal governance to the center of fishery systems - systems Indigenous Peoples have been stewarding across »¨½·Ö±²¥ for thousands of years.
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»¨½·Ö±²¥ Native Language Center bookstore reopens

November 13, 2023

The UAF »¨½·Ö±²¥ 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 »¨½·Ö±²¥ Myth

November 13, 2023

Tia Tidwell, assistant professor of »¨½·Ö±²¥ Native Studies and Rural Development at the »¨½·Ö±²¥, was a guest on the first episode of the new podcast, The »¨½·Ö±²¥ Myth. The »¨½·Ö±²¥ Myth is a podcast about how »¨½·Ö±²¥ns view our history and ourselves.
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Advisors travel from rural campuses for training summit

November 08, 2023

An advising and student services training summit brought together advisors from all of UAF'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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Tamamta program honored by APLU

October 20, 2023

UAF'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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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 Iñu-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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UAF hosting 2023 Indigenous Peoples Day events

October 04, 2023

The »¨½·Ö±²¥ will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day this year with an afternoon full of cultural events and workshops.
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Black receives 2023 Bullock Prize for service to the UA system

September 15, 2023

The University of »¨½·Ö±²¥ Foundation Board of Directors has awarded the 2023 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence to Jessica Black. Black, associate vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education at the »¨½·Ö±²¥, has been a faculty member since 2006.
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Center for Cross-Cultural Studies receives 10-year accreditation

September 15, 2023

The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies has received 10-year accreditation from the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium.
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Friday Focus: Fall-time transitions and higher education

August 18, 2023

Growing up in interior »¨½·Ö±²¥, fall time represents a season of transitions. The long summer days begin to shorten. The air gets a little crisper. The leaves begin to change color. And we at UAF are busy preparing for the start of the new academic year. Our various campuses from Dillingham to Fairbanks and everywhere in between are teeming with the energy of students, faculty and staff. It is a great time to be a part of the UAF community. An aspect of UAF that I appreciate most is our enduring commitment to increasing the accessibility of higher education.
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$1 million USDA investment supports food, energy sovereignty

August 03, 2023

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide continued support for a »¨½·Ö±²¥ project aimed at educating and preparing the next generation of »¨½·Ö±²¥ Native agriculture leaders.
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Uher, Plumb to serve as interim deans

July 19, 2023

Vice Chancellor for Rural, Community and Native Education Charlene Stern has announced that Bryan Uher will serve as interim dean of the UAF Community and Technical College starting on Aug. 2. Uher, who is currently CRCD's dean, will replace CTC Dean Michele Stalder, who is retiring.
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Minnie Naylor appointed director of UAF Chukchi Campus

July 14, 2023

Minnie Naylor continues her leadership of the Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue as newly appointed campus director effective July 2.
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Rural »¨½·Ö±²¥ Honors Institute will celebrate graduates at ceremony

July 07, 2023

The Rural »¨½·Ö±²¥ Honors Institute will hold its 41st annual graduation July 13 from 1-2:30 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium on the »¨½·Ö±²¥ Troth Yeddha' Campus. The ceremony will stream live on Facebook.
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Indigenous higher education consortium meeting registration opens

June 12, 2023

The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium will host its annual general meeting on the Troth Yeddha' Campus of the »¨½·Ö±²¥ from July 16-20, 2023.
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»¨½·Ö±²¥ Native Language Center film wins Northwest Regional Emmy

June 08, 2023

The »¨½·Ö±²¥ Native Language Center's film "Awake" has won a Northwest Regional Emmy through the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The film, produced by Channel Films in fall 2022, captures the past, present and future of language revitalization. It won in the long-form branded content category.
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Friday Focus: RCNE planning forward

June 02, 2023

The »¨½·Ö±²¥ College of Rural and Community Development and the Community and Technical College have been busy working to update their 10-year campus master plan. Board of Regents Policy 05.12.030 requires a CMP for each campus. The 2023 CRCD and CTC campus master planning effort is informed by a shared vision that will guide the development of the two college's campuses and instructional sites over the next decade.
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