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Yesterday, Governor Dunleavy released the State of Alaska FY23 budget, marking the
completion of the state appropriations process and the first operating and capital
budget increases since prior to FY20. The State of Alaska Legislature also moved the UA system back to a single appropriation,
which allows us to more efficiently manage operations between the universities and
the UA System Office. This is beneficial in many ways and will allow us to be nimble
and proactive when using our resources, or to support shared expenses where economies
of scale exist.
Frank Keim ’66, ’73 has studied, drawn and written for decades about some of the unique
avian residents of the Bering Sea. Find out more in the spring 2022 Aurora.
As we bid farewell to Spoke, effective July 1, 2022, HR employees and customers will
have a streamlined interface (Enterprise Service management or ESM) for submitting
requests via UA HR's website.
Winter storms spinning off the Gulf of Alaska have sculpted these hemlocks on the
outer coast of Glacier Bay National Park into mountain men waving at you, the letter
Z, and umbrellas. “These are museum-class bonsais,” Ben Gaglioti says as we walk through
an elfin forest. Gaglioti, a University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist, has led me
into another landscape I have never seen in Alaska. This terrace of spongy ground
above the rainforest is home to trees that Dr. Seuss might have dreamed up.
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What's happening today
Deadlines and reminders
The UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning concert series Music in the Garden will
move to the Great Hall for June 30 because of the air quality due to wildfire smoke.
As we near the end of Pride month at UAF, we'd like to highlight a scholarship supporting
LGBTQ2IA+ students and allies from the UAF community. In 2011, a group of UAF alumni
and friends established the LGBT Friends and Allies Scholarship. This UAF scholarship
is the only one of its kind in the University of Alaska system.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 barring sex discrimination, has stood
as a cornerstone of equal access to education at federally funded institutions. Last
week, the U.S. Department of Education released new proposed rules on Title IX. The Department's proposed rules will be open for public comment for 60 days from the
date of publication in the Federal Register. The press release announcing the proposed changes is located on the U.S. Department of Education's website.
Editor's Note
The following is the correct link to the article: Our Corner of Space: Maintaining an accurate Facilities Inventory Database published in the Cornerstone on June 27, 2022.
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