Office of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Education & Outreach

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Dawn Randazzo, INDS BA, at UAA's 2024 Spring Commencement in the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Airlines Center.
The Office of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Education and Outreach works to implement Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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.
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Success Initiative (ANSI)
ANSI Vision
Build an Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native community within UAA and be a global leader in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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: Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Students
Increase Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native.
Goal 3: Increase Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native retention and graduation rates.
Priority 2: Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Faculty & Staff
Increase recruitment & retention of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Faculty & Staff.
Goal: Increase the percentage of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Faculty from 6% & Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Staff from
7.5% to 20%.
Priority 3: Institution (Internal & External)
Create a culture of belonging for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Students, Faculty, Staff, & Community
Organizations.
Goal 1: Resource Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Academic Departments & Student Support Programs.
Goal 2: Increase Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native representation both internally & externally.
Goal 3: Improve Human Resources’ policies & practices.
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Chanshtnu Council
Vision
Ensuring Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Success through honoring and the representation of Indigenous Knowledge throughout our learning community. The Chanshtnu Council includes the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Academic and Student Success Program Faculty and Staff, Student leaders, Faculty and Staff.
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Academic Programs
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Studies — Anchorage Campus
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Art
Indigenizing Education
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Student Success Programs
Native Student Services (NSS)
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Community Advancement in Psychology (ANCAP)/ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Natives into Psychology
(ANPsych)
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native, Indigenous & Rural Outreach Program (ANIROP) & The Cama-i Room
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Traditional Kitchen (AKTK)
Della Keats
Recruitment and Retention of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Natives into Nursing (RRANN)
Department of Community & Belonging
¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ Land Acknowledgements
¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹
Dena'inaq eÅ‚nen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ to English translation by Helen Dick, Sondra
Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak
Ahtna Denaey
Danse nene' ghestnaa eÅ‚ izdaa: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. Ahtna Denaey to English translation
Yup'ik
Uitalartua caliaqlua-llu ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹-t nuniitni: “I live and work on the land of the ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹.â€
Audio by Quentin Simeon. Yup'ik to English translation by Alice Rearden
Contact

Michele Aangsux̂ Yatchmeneff, PhD
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Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Education & Outreach Executive Director
Associate Professor of Engineering
michele@alaska.edu
(907) 786-1853
¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹m tanangin kugan angÌ‚agÌ‚izaq: "I live on ¶Ù±ð²Ô²¹â€™i²Ô²¹ lands."
Unangam Tunuu to English translation