The Mat-Su Health Foundation has awarded Alaska Pacific University’s Kellogg Spring Creek Farm a Coronavirus Prevention and Response grant. This $50,000 project is entitled “Funding Our Farmers, Feeding Our Families – Expanding Alaska Tilth”. These funds will allow the Alaska Tilth program to purchase Mat-Su farmers’ produce at fair market prices and in turn offer…
A message to the community from President Bob Onders
Alaska Pacific University Will Open With Distance Learning
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Pacific University (APU) will begin the 2020-2021 school year with the majority of classes delivered by distance learning, University President Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson announced today. APU originally planned to hold fall classes in person with thorough physical distancing and safety measures in place, but as the coronavirus pandemic has continued to…
Stephanie Holthaus named Walter J. Hickel Endowed Professor at Alaska Pacific University
Stephanie Holthaus has been named the 2020-2021 Walter J. Hickel Endowed Professor in Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Alaska Pacific University (APU). Established in 2011 under the university’s Institute of Business & Public Policy, the Hickel Endowed Professorship is named for the former two-term Alaska governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior. In her role,…
Alaska Pacific University Releases Campus Reopening Plan
Anchorage, Alaska – Alaska Pacific University (APU) has released its Campus Reopening Plan, which outlines protective measures against COVID-19 transmission. The plan allows for both in-person and distance learning when the semester begins August 24. “Our Campus Reopening planning document details new policies and expectations for the year,” said APU President Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson. “I…
Alaska Pacific University to Receive $25,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Support Indigenous Art
Alaska Pacific University has been approved for a $25,000 Art Works grant to support APU’s efforts to revitalize Indigenous Alaskan arts. Overall, the National Endowment for the Arts has approved 1,187 grants totaling $27.3 million in the first round of fiscal year 2020 funding to support arts projects in every state in the nation, as…
Message from President Davidson to the APU Community
Violence against our Black relatives must stop. Recent events have exposed the centuries’ old wounds of racial division and oppression in the United States, and revisit a painful and unjust past upon our present: it must stop. Alaska Pacific University, as an institution founded on the bedrock concept of racial equity, affirmatively supports our Black…
Road Closure Notice: Northern Lights Boulevard between UAA and Career Center Drive
This summer, the Municipality of Anchorage Project Management and Engineering Department will be doing an emergency replacement of the culvert for Chester Creek under Northern Lights Boulevard between UAA Drive and Career Center Drive. You may remember some temporary closures of Northern Lights Blvd in December 2019 when the collapsing culvert was identified and a…
National honor for APU-sponsored program that equips Alaskans with earthquake education
Seismic events — earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions — are a part of life in Alaska. But not every community faces the same dangers or prepares in the same way. EarthScope ANGLE, a project led by Alaska Pacific University (APU) Research Associate Dr. Jennifer Witter, aims to help Alaska communities become more resilient to these…
Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson Named Alaska Pacific University President
Davidson will be the 12th president of the private university in Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Pacific University (APU) today announced the appointment of Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson as its next president. When Davidson succeeds current APU President Bob Onders on April 25th, she will become the 12th president of APU and the first woman to lead…
Alaska Pacific University Will Go Virtual To Fight The Spread Of Coronavirus
APU announces a number of preventive measures to help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, including moving classes online for the remainder of the academic term and canceling its spring commencement.
