Advising Services

College of Indigenous Studies Advising and Student Services

At CIS, advisors provide comprehensive student support services as well as access to opportunities that incorporate local knowledge, campus and regional resources.

CIS's Rural campus advisors provide remote and regionally based student assistance regarding admission, registration, academic advising, financial aid, degree planning and workforce development programming. Because our rural based advisors are local education experts, students are highly encouraged to contact a local rural campus advisor to pursue enrollment with UAF, CIS or with any program within the University of Alaska system. CIS Student Service teams extend to remote areas across Alaska through five regional rural campuses; Chukchi, Northwest, Kuskokwim, Bristol Bay and Interior Alaska. 

CIS's Rural Student Services provides comprehensive academic advising and support for Alaska Native and rural Alaskan students on the Troth Yeddha campus in Fairbanks.  RSS advisors also provide assistance with a variety of important academic decisions students at UAF make, as well as support students advised through other departments with study and success resources, outreach events and student wellness efforts.

Find your advisor

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CIS Degree Program Advisors

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Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham

The Bristol Bay Campus serves 32 rural communities in the Bristol Bay region within a 55,000-square-mile area. The campus includes 12 coastal communities served by the Aleutian-Pribilof outreach center in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor: the Aleutian archipelago, lower Alaska Peninsula, the Shumigan Islands,and the Pribilof Islands. The campus' administrative center is in Dillingham (about 322 air miles from Anchorage and 570 air miles from Fairbanks), with a center in King Salmon.

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Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue

Located in the hub village of Kotzebue in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Chukchi Campus primarily serves Kotzebue as well as the eleven village communities and the Red Dog Mine site within a service area of more than 36,000 square miles of spectacular mountain and tundra wilderness. None of the villages in the service area are connected to each other or to any other road system. The 2018 U.S. Census estimates our service area population at approximately 9,000, 82% of which are Alaska Native. Combining a traditional subsistence lifestyle with formal education and training is becoming extremely important for the success of the residents in this region.

Programs:

• Food Security & Sovereignty

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Interior Alaska Campus in Fairbanks

The Interior Alaska Campus in Fairbanks serves 46 communities and villages in the Doyon and Tanana Chiefs regions throughout the interior of Alaska. Although the director’s office and some faculty are located in Fairbanks, there are Interior Alaska Campus learning centers in Fort Yukon and Tok.

Programs

• Associate of Science
• Content Creation OE
• Construction Trades Technology
• Rural Human Services
• Tribal Governance

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Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel

The Kuskokwim Campus is located in Bethel and serves approximately 25,000 people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, which includes 47 remote Alaska Native Yup’ik and Cup’ik Eskimo and Athabaskan villages with 56 tribes in a 57,000-square-mile-area the size of Illinois. Bethel is a community of about 6,000 people 80 miles inland on the Kuskokwim River.

Programs: 

• Alaska Ethnobotany OE
• Continuing Education
• Alaska Tech Prep

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Northwest Campus in Nome

Northwest Campus is located in Nome, a community of 3,500 that is the service hub for the 15 villages of the Bering Strait region. This 44,000-square-mile region extends from Shishmaref on the northern edge of the Seward Peninsula to Stebbins on the southern rim of Norton Sound. It includes communities on St. Lawrence and Little Diomede islands. The area contains 570 miles of coastline, which includes all of Norton Sound and portions of the Bering and Chukchi seas.

Resources:

• Northwest Campus student services

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Alaska Native Language Center

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