Office of ľֱ Native Education & Outreach

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Dawn Randazzo, INDS BA, at UAA's 2024 Spring Commencement in the ľֱ Airlines Center.
The Office of ľֱ Native Education and Outreach works to implement ľֱ Native Success into the fabric of everything we do at UAA. UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples.
ľֱ Native Success Initiative (ANSI)
ANSI Vision
Build an ľֱ Native community within UAA and be a global leader in ľֱ Native student success, teaching and scholarship. ANSI is being incorporated into everything we do at UAA, each of our Campuses, Colleges, and Schools has its own ANSI Strategic Plan. Because it requires everyone in our community - administrators, faculty, staff and students - to work together to create the systemic change needed to foster success and create a place of belonging.
Priority 1: ľֱ Native Students
Increase ľֱ Native Student preparation, recruitment, retention, and graduation
rates.
Goal 1: Eliminate the need for remediation and reduce the time to earn their degree for
graduated high school students.
Goal 2: Have 15% of the total enrolled students be ľֱ Native.
Goal 3: Increase ľֱ Native retention and graduation rates.
Priority 2: ľֱ Native Faculty & Staff
Increase recruitment & retention of ľֱ Native Faculty & Staff.
Goal: Increase the percentage of ľֱ Native Faculty from 6% & ľֱ Native Staff from
7.5% to 20%.
Priority 3: Institution (Internal & External)
Create a culture of belonging for ľֱ Native Students, Faculty, Staff, & Community
Organizations.
Goal 1: Resource ľֱ Native Academic Departments & Student Support Programs.
Goal 2: Increase ľֱ Native representation both internally & externally.
Goal 3: Improve Human Resources’ policies & practices.
More Information
Chanshtnu Council
Vision
Ensuring ľֱ Native Success through honoring and the representation of Indigenous Knowledge throughout our learning community. The Chanshtnu Council includes the ľֱ Native Academic and Student Success Program Faculty and Staff, Student leaders, Faculty and Staff.
ľֱ Native Academic Programs
ľֱ Native Studies — Anchorage Campus
ľֱ Native Art
Indigenizing Education
ľֱ Native Student Success Programs
Native Student Services (NSS)
ľֱ Native Community Advancement in Psychology (ANCAP)/ ľֱ Natives into Psychology
(ANPsych)
ľֱ Native, Indigenous & Rural Outreach Program (ANIROP) & The Cama-i Room
ľֱ Traditional Kitchen (AKTK)
Della Keats
Recruitment and Retention of ľֱ Natives into Nursing (RRANN)
Department of Community & Belonging
ٱԲ’iԲ Land Acknowledgements
ٱԲ’iԲ
Dena'inaq ełnen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu: “I live and work on the land of the ٱԲ’iԲ.”
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. ٱԲ’iԲ to English translation by Helen Dick, Sondra
Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak
Ahtna Denaey
Danse nene' ghestnaa eł izdaa: “I live and work on the land of the ٱԲ’iԲ.”
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. Ahtna Denaey to English translation
Yup'ik
Uitalartua caliaqlua-llu ٱԲ’iԲ-t nuniitni: “I live and work on the land of the ٱԲ’iԲ.”
Audio by Quentin Simeon. Yup'ik to English translation by Alice Rearden
Contact

Michele Aangsux̂ Yatchmeneff, PhD
ԲԲ̂/
ľֱ Native Education & Outreach Executive Director
Associate Professor of Engineering
michele@alaska.edu
(907) 786-1853
ٱԲ’iԲm tanangin kugan anĝaĝizaq: "I live on ٱԲ’iԲ lands."
Unangam Tunuu to English translation