This is the latest UAS article in today’s Juneau paper.
I think it does actually give a reasonable view of life and times at UAS. The university environment here is not just “lack of support for research”, which would be frustrating enough, but it is actually distracting from our efforts to grow an integrated, predominantly undergrad environment built on place-based interdisciplinary research programs. It is really too bad–there is so much potential here..
There are a few details I’d quibble with–the no confidence against Chancellor Pugh is currently tabled in Senate (there hasn’t been a vote on the motion), the senate resolutions weren’t “asking for a larger role in governance of the university”–it asked to recognize and practice shared governance as laid out in the UAS faculty constitution (signed by the current Chancellor when it was adopted in ~2003).
The contrast over the latest Dean search is “interesting” (“the search panel was unhappy with the candidates.” vs “all of the finalists withdrew“)
And unfortunately, the Chancellor says “we don’t have large research labs”–what a missed opportunity, because we do have great research labs! Three of ’em: the Juneau Icefield, The Tongass National Forest, and the Pacific Ocean/Inside Passage…
And here are a few photos of us at work in the lab yesterday–thanks Ayanna!
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| From Mendenhall Glacier Divide |
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| From Mendenhall Glacier Divide |
(and the whole (5 pictures so far!) album)..