Coronavirus information
Visit the UA coronavirus information website to learn how the University of Alaska is responding to the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 situation and find links to FAQs communications, policy guidance and resources.Visit the UAF information page on the UA coronavirus information website for Chancellor White's communications related to COVID-19.
- Message to Students: Welcome to spring 2021 (January 11, 2021)
- Message to staff and faculty: Welcome to spring 2021 (January 11, 2021)
- New interim athletic director (January 7, 2021)
- Shared values (January 6, 2021)
- Update on Alaska Nanooks athletics (December 11, 2020)
- Happy Holidays (December 11, 2020)
- UAF United Way campaign begins (December 1, 2020)
- Happy Thanksgiving (November 23, 2020)
- Thank you on Veterans Day (November 11, 2020)
- Administrative Management Review – EX and FR Positions (October 27, 2020)
- Discussing new business models for child care facility (October 20, 2020)
- UAF winter closure: Dec. 24, 2020-Jan. 1, 2021 (October 15, 2020)
- Indirect Cost Recovery Distribution Rate (October 13, 2020)
- Differentiated tuition forum Oct. 15 (October 8, 2020)
- Accreditation visit update (October 2, 2020)
- Revised link for Convocation 2020 (September 29, 2020)
- Join me today at 1 p.m. for Convocation 2020 (September 29, 2020)
- Message to students: UA Safe and Title IX build a strong community (September 23, 2020)
- Message to faculty and staff: Importance of Title IX training (September 23, 2020)
- Message to students: Welcome to fall 2020 (August 25, 2020)
- Message to faculty and staff: Welcome to fall 2020 (August 25, 2020)
- FY22 Early Planning Assumptions & Budget Guidance (August 19, 2020)
- Tuition Model (August 19, 2020)
- Commitment to Alaska Nanooks programs (August 19, 2020)
- 2020-2021 expedited academic program review (August 13, 2020)
- Pat Pitney named interim UA president (July 14, 2020)
- Nomination for interim president (July 10, 2020)
- Creating stability in changing times (June 24, 2020)
- Outcomes from this week's Board of Regents meetings (June 6, 2020)
- A message of solidarity (June 2, 2020)
- Charge to the Task Force on Outward-Facing Activities (May 19, 2020)
- Docusign Process (May 15, 2020)
- Message to students: Consolidated fee proposal (May 13, 2020)
- Advancing UAF’s Strategic Plan (May 13, 2020)
- Changes to Title IX rules (May 7, 2020)
- FY21-FY22 Budget Planning Scenarios – Update for BOR Audit Committee on May 13, 2020 (May 7, 2020)
- Administrative review proposals (April 13, 2020)
- Opportunity in disruption (April 10, 2020)
- Shared services center (April 9, 2020)
- Finding from COVID-19 UAF Staff Remote Accessibility Survey (April 8, 2020)
- Essential employee approvals (March 31, 2020)
- Gwen Holdmann to serve as liaison between UAF and Fairbanks Memorial Hospitals for COVID-19 support (March 31, 2020)
- Curtail UAF nonessential spending during COVID-19 pandemic (March 26, 2020)
- Chancellor's recommendations on expedited academic program review (March 23, 2020)
- UAF Expedited Academic Review (March 23, 2020)
- Expedited academic program review: Early indications of feedback (March 20, 2020)
- Online listening session on expedited academic program review (March 17, 2020)
- Today's expedited academic program review announcement (March 9, 2020)
- Shared Services Business Center Proposals Update (Feb. 24, 2020)
- Change in reporting structure for Sea Grant and MAP (Feb. 14, 2020)
- Change of RFP deadline for Shared Services Business Centers (Jan. 23, 2020)
- Request for Proposals: Shared Service Business Centers on Troth Yeddha’ Campus (Dec. 18, 2019)
- Strategic planning documents available for review (Dec. 12, 2019)
- Tuition and Fee Committee (Nov. 15, 2019)
- Thank you on Veterans Day (Nov. 11, 2019)
- FY20 UAF Strategic Enrollment Planning (SEP) Initiatives (Oct. 4, 2019)
- Accreditation, financial aid and teach-outs (Oct. 3, 2019)
- This week's letter from the NWCCU (Sept. 28, 2019)
- Memo: Procurement and Travel Approval Process (July 2, 2019)
- Staff Recognition and Development Day – May 8, 2019 (May 1, 2019)
- FY 2020 Budget Reduction Planning (April 30, 2019)
- FY20 Planning (April 15, 2019)
- Response to Request for Surveys and Contact Information (March 21, 2019)
- Mission Memo to Vice Chancellors (February 25, 2019)
- Fab-lab Space & Equipment (February 1, 2019)
- FY20 Budget Planning (January 30, 2019)
- Aligning Programs from the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Rural and Community Development (January 22, 2019)
- Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Reindeer
Large Animal Research Station (January 22, 2019) - Faculty Task Force on F & A Rates (December 10, 2018)
- Fab Labs: New and Existing (November 14, 2018)
- Title IX training for employees (August 31, 2018)
- Prakash to serve as UAF provost (May 11, 2018)
- Required training for UAF employees (April 25, 2018)
- January 12, 2021: COVID-19 update: Jan. 12, 2021
- January 5, 2021: COVID-19 update: Jan. 5, 2021
- December 15, 2020: COVID-19 update: Dec. 15. 2020
- December 8, 2020: COVID-19 update: Dec. 8, 2020
- December 1, 2020: COVID-19 update: Dec. 1, 2020
- November 20, 2020: COVID-19 update: Nov. 20, 2020
- November 13, 2020: Update on Nanooks athletics seasons
- November 12, 2020: Response to Gov. Dunleavy's COVID-19 message today
- November 3, 2020: COVID-19 update: Nov. 3, 2020
- October 20, 2020: COVID-19 update: Oct. 20, 2020
- October 13, 2020: COVID-19 update: Oct. 13, 2020
- October 6, 2020: COVID-19 update: Oct. 6, 2020
- September 29, 2020: COVID-19 update: Sept. 29, 2020
- September 22, 2020: COVID-19 update: Sept. 22, 2020
- Spetember 15, 2020: COVID-19 update: Sept. 15, 2020
- September 8, 2020: COVID-19 update: Sept. 8, 2020
- September 3, 2020: COVID-19 update: Sept. 3, 2020
- September 1, 2020: COVID-19 update to students: Sept. 1, 2020
- September 1, 2020: COVID-19 update to staff: Sept 1, 2020
- August 29, 2020: COVID-19 update: Aug. 29, 2020
- August 25, 2020: COVID-19 update: Aug. 25, 2020
- August 18, 2020: COVID-19 update: Aug. 18, 2020
- August 11, 2020: COVID-19 update: Aug. 11, 2020
- August 7, 2020: Campus access
- August 4, 2020: COVID-19 update -- August 4, 2020
- July 28, 2020: Preparing for fall semester -- July 28, 2020
- July 24, 2020: COVID-19 update
- July 23, 2020: New policy on face coverings
- July 21, 2020: Fall semester update -- July 21, 2020
- July 14, 2020: Fall semester update for staff -- July 14, 2020
- July 7, 2020: Fall semester update: July 7, 2020
- June 30, 2020: Fall semester update: June 30, 2020
- June 19, 2020: On-site operation plan phases
- June 1, 2020: UAF on-site operations
- May 22, 2020: UAF remains in Phase A
- May 21, 2020: UAF operations planning for the fall
- May 4, 2020: Staff survey on university's COVID-19 response
- May 1, 2020: Looking ahead to fall
- April 29, 2020: Furloughs for senior administrators
- April 22, 2020: UAF steps up to support COVID-19 response
- April 21, 2020: UAF is planning for fall
- April 16, 2020: Identifying COVID-19-related furloughs
- April 14, 2020: Memo: Research under Health Mandates 11 and 12
- April 13, 2020: UA Employee COVID-19 Status tool
- April 13, 2020: Memo: COVID-19 Reporting Procedure
- April 10, 2020: Early planning for COVID-related furloughs
- April 7, 2020: CARES Act
- April 7, 2020: Preparing for COVID-related furloughs
- April 6, 2020: New UA tracking and response policy
- March 31, 2020: Essential Employee Approvals
- March 31, 2020: Gwen Holdmann to serve as liaison between UAF and Fairbanks Memorial Hospitals for COVID-19 support
- March 29, 2020: More information on Health Mandate 11
- March 28, 2020: Shelter in place and in-state travel mandates
- March 26, 2020: UAF Building Closures
- March 24, 2020: Follow public health guidelines
- March 21, 2020: New positive COVID-19 case
- March 21, 2020 to students: A legacy of compassion and commitment
- March 20, 2020: Working from home
- March 19, 2020: Additional information on UAF COVID-19 case
- March 19, 2020: Update on O'Neill Building precautions
- March 17, 2020: Confirmed test result for UAF employee
- March 17, 2020: Taking steps to slow the spread of COVID-19
- March 16, 2020: March 17 online forum for COVID-19
- March 16, 2020 to students: You are our highest priority
- March 16, 2020: Travel and self-observing for 14 days
- March 13, 2020: More information on COVID-19 response
- March 13, 2020: Academic continuity
- March 12, 2020: Today's new guidance on COVID-19
- March 10, 2020: Resources for working, teaching remotely
- March 6, 2020: UAF response team for COVID-19
- March 3, 2020: Coronavirus steps and precautions
- Feb. 20, 2020: Novel coronavirus update
- Feb. 13, 2020: Coronavirus update
- Feb. 11, 2020: Coronavirus response management
- Jan. 30, 2020: New coronavirus update
- Friday Focus: Tense matters, too (December 18, 2020)
- Friday Focus: The means matter (October 30, 2020)
- Friday Focus: Back to the dialogue agreements! (September 25, 2020)
- Friday Focus: Keep your eye on the prize, UAF (August 28, 2020)
- Friday Focus: The privilege and responsibility to make decisions (July 31, 2020)
- Friday Focus: From where I sit (June 26, 2020)
- Friday Focus: Confidence in UAF (May 29, 2020)
- Friday Focus: UAF's education futures (April 24, 2020)
- Friday Focus: An opportunity to create a new normal (March 27, 2020)
- Friday Focus: Creating an environment for student success (February, 28, 2020)
- Friday Focus: UAF's future is up to us (January 31, 2020)
- Friday Focus: Enrollment is key to a vibrant campus (December 20, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Letting go of what was for what can be (November 22, 2019)
- Friday Focus: The Speed of Trust (October 25, 2019)
- Friday Focus: YOU belong at UAF (September 27, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Reasons to celebrate (August 30, 2019)
- Friday Focus: What athletics can do (July 26, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Guiding principles in uncertain times (June 28, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Two more 'words that matter' (May 31, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Words matter (April 26, 2019)
- Friday Focus: One Health, campus wellness and diversity (March 29, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Telling our story, sharing information (February 22, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Planning UAF's future (January 25, 2019)
- Friday Focus: Planning and leadership communication in 2019 (December 20, 2018)
UAF Chancellor Dan White hosted a series of online forums COVID-19 information forums. The first forum, at 10 a.m., July 31, was a discussion about plans for fall.
If you missed it, you can stream the chancellor's July 31 forum on fall planning.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
August COVID-19 information forums were an opportunity to ask questions and hear from leadership about UAF’s plans for fall semester.
If you missed it, you can stream the August 7 COVID-19 information forum.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
August COVID-19 information forums were an opportunity to ask questions and hear from leadership about UAF’s plans for fall semester.
If you missed it, you can stream the August 14 COVID-19 information forum.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
- Tom Hennessey, statewide incident management team
- Jak Maier, Faculty Senate president
- Holly Beamon, acting director, Residence Life
- Doug Schrage, fire chief and director of emergency management
If you missed it, you can stream the August 21 COVID-19 information forum.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
August COVID-19 information forums were an opportunity to ask questions and hear from leadership about UAF’s plans for fall semester.
If you missed it, you can stream the August 28 COVID-19 information forum.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
Chancellor White and the UAF leadership team hosted an online forum on differentiated tuition, Thursday, Oct. 15, from 1-2 p.m.
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Keith Champagne, and Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services Julie Queen, and Vice Chancellor for Rural Community and Native Education Evon Peter were on hand to present information and answer questions about a UAF proposal for differentiated tuition.
If you missed it, you can stream the October 15 forum on differentiated tuition.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events and communications manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
Chancellor Dan White hosted a forum with interim President Pat Pitney on Thursday, Nov. 12, from 1-2 p.m. Pitney discussed her vision and key messages, FY22 budget planning, OIT and systemwide administrative reviews.
If you missed it, you can stream the November 12 forum on with interim President Pitney.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.
Chancellor White hosted a forum on shared services Tuesday, Dec. 8, from 1-2 p.m. Panelists discussed the January rollout of shared services for travel and procurement as well as current discussions towards a shared service for proposal development.
Panelists included:
- Julie Queen, vice chancellor for administrative services
- Amanda Wall, associate vice chancellor for financial services
- Kellie Fritze, executive office, Facilities Services
- Nettie La Belle-Hamer, vice chancellor for research
If you missed it, you can stream the December 8 forum on shared services.
For more information, email Carla Browning, institutional events manager, at uaf-events@alaska.edu.