Honors students donate to Kaktovik school

February 11, 2020

University Relations

Students in UAF's Honors College are donating money they earned working as coat checkers at last weekend's Blue and Gold Celebration to help rebuild a school in Kaktovik.

The students typically use funds collected from the tip jar have subsidized Honors student activities and scholarships. This year, however, they decided to send their earnings to the North Slope community, whose school was substantially destroyed in a fire Feb. 7. It was the village's only school and also served as a social center for area residents.

For more information, email Alex Hirsch, Honors College director, at ahirsch@alaska.edu.