On Friday, February 22 the Leah J. Peterson Speaker Series welcomed the Anchorage Vagina Monologues Director for a discussion on empowerment through performing arts. The panel discussed how the Vagina Monologues explores consensual and non-consensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, sex work, and several other topics through the…
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Photo Book: 2018 Fall Commencement
On Saturday, December 8 APU held its Fall Commencement at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium. A dedicated group of undergraduate and graduate students walked across the stage to accept their diploma and begin a new chapter in their lives. Congratulations! We look forward to witnessing your impact on the world! Please enjoy this photo book highlighting…
Honors Assembly Shines Light on Exemplary Students, Staff, Faculty
With the school year winding down, Alaska Pacific University took time last week to recognize it’s exemplary students, staff, and faculty members during the Annual Honors Assembly. Here are the highlights from the April 20th event. Faculty Merit Awards: It is one of the longstanding traditions at APU, that faculty would recommend one another for…
All the Cooks in the Kitchen
How Alaska Pacific University students started getting invited into the kitchen to cook for Thanksgiving, Director of Sustainability and Dining Chris Pavadore isn’t sure. He knows it was about six or seven years ago, but who exactly spearheaded the effort is murky. He’s also not sure what kind of menu the student volunteers will create…
New Elder Artists in Residence Program to Teach Art and Culture
Alaska Native elders and renowned artists, Joe and Martha Senungetuk, have been named the inaugural Elder Artists-in-Residence for the heARTS Healing Center and Studio at Alaska Pacific University. From November until June, the couple will use the art room in Atwood Center as their studio and mentoring space for any student, staff, or faculty member…
Happy Leap Day 2016!
by Miriam Mezzetti Today is Leap Day (also known as Leap Year’s Day)! Around the world, for most countries that use the Gregorian calendar, there are interesting traditions and myths about the day that occurs only once every 4 years: February 29th. Love is often a theme of Leap Day celebrations. In some countries, mostly…
In A League Of Its Own: The EcoLeague Exchange Program
An exchange can enable students to study in a different ecosystem, learn about life in another location and culture, and to take enriching classes that complement their studies at their home university. APU students don’t need to learn another language or fly to another country to have an exchange experience, though. With an Eco League…
Bantz: Expedition Alaska is ‘transformative’
Among faculty traveling the Yukon River with APU’s Expedition Alaska course was University President Don Bantz. He’s back at his desk, giving thought to Expedition AK 2014, and sends along these thoughts: I’ve taught in several first-year college programs that I thought were excellent, but nothing even remotely resembling Expedition Alaska. The course sent APU…
Bantz welcomes Early Honors students: ‘Call me Don’
Advanced high schoolers enrolled in APU’s Early Honors program gained an up-close view of active learning when President Don Bantz strode into the classroom for a student-led interview and handed out his business card. The first slightly nervous question: How should high school seniors address the university president? “Call me Don,” he said. And they…
Sustainability News Blast
Welcome back APUers The new semester is only a few days old and the gratifying smell of summer vacation still lingers in the air, soon to be squashed by the tense fears of the first major assignments, and our staff members are already busy creating a more sustainable university. The new student center has been…
