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Dan White

Friday Focus: A vote of confidence

— By Dan White. The word is out! Early Semester Reports, or ESRs, are released weekly this time of year to help us understand what enrollment will look like in the fall. And ... wait for it ... enrollment is up for fall 2022 by 34% (headcount) compared to last year this time.


UAF Onboarding Committee gathering materials

The newly formed UAF Onboarding Committee would love to see your employee manuals and department-specific onboarding materials.


Photographed from an aircraft at an elevation of several thousand feet, a braided river with numerous gray sand islands and bars winds through a flatland. Surrounding the river are green forests of spruce and deciduous trees, as well as marshes and old oxbow river bends filled with yellowing grasses.

Alaska's water crop is a natural resource

As much of Alaska's landmass crosses the magical temperature threshold that turns ice and snow into water, it's time to consider the state's richness in a resource more essential to humans than oil or gas.

What's on today

What's on this weekend

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'Visualizing Science' workshop planned

Alaska NSF EPSCoR presents a free online workshop on “Visualizing Science: Communicating concepts through graphic design,” on May 4.


The UAF community garden full of vegetables

Plots available in UAF community garden

Plots are available at the UAF community garden for the 2022 season. The registration window is open now for UAF affiliates and for members of the public starting May 6.


Cornerstone summer schedule begins May 2

Cornerstone, the staff and faculty newsletter, will move to its summer schedule of Monday, Wednesday and Fridays starting May 2. Cornerstone will resume its daily schedule in late summer.


About Cornerstone

The Cornerstone employee newsletter is produced by University Relations and emailed to all UAF staff and faculty. You can submit news items here.

 

UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination/.