ASDP/ARC PROFILE
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE
Institution Name:
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508Contact(s):
Dr. Paul Dunscomb
Department of History
Email: afped@uaa.alaska.eduBrief Institutional Description: Comprehensive institution w/18,000 headcount, 8,800 FTE students, 370 full-time, 400 part-time faculty; largest of three units in University of Alaska System comprising Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau units.
Asian/International Stage of Development: Realizing the potential of our unique location is a specific goal of the most recent version of our mission statement. We are very much in a developmental mode, adding new faculty and training existing faculty, creating programs (International/North Pacific Rim Studies), infusing curriculum, and in need of additional administrative infrastructure. Currently offer Russian, Japanese, Chinese (limited), Korean (limited).
Recent/Planned Activities: In last two years have sent 5 faculty to ASDP, 1 to Korean Development Program. Workshop on UAA campus by E-W Center personnel, May 2000. Joint E-W Center sponsored International Conference on Indigenous peoples (Alaska, Hawaii, China, Taiwan, Japan, possibly Eastern Russia) projected summer 2002.
Faculty Resources: Japanese: Professor Hiroko Harada; Russian: Professor Susan Kalina; Asian History: Professor Paul Dunscomb; Russian History: Professor Elizabeth Dennison; North Pacific/International: Professor Diddy Hitchins.
Study Abroad Programs: Limited student exchange program with Magadan International University; study abroad at Japanese institution(s) under development.
Grants: Recent: None. Current: US DoE Title VI to enhance Russian and Asian Language programs, infuse curriculum with North Pacific Rim content, develop North Pacific Rim minor, $360,000. In development: Planning to apply for an appropriate successor grant application to our current Title VI, with discussion as to what our next steps should be.