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PERFORMANCE’14 University of Alaska Anchorage TOM CASE, Chancellor ELISHA (“BEAr”) R. BAKER IV, Provost and Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs WILLIAM SPINDLE, Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services BRUCE SCHULTZ, Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs MEGAN OLSON, Vice Chancellor, University Advancement RENEE CARTER-CHAPMAN, Senior Vice Provost, Academic Affairs COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ALASKA NATIVE SCIENCE AND UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE John Stalvey, Dean ENGINEERING PROGRAM (ANSEP) FACULTY SENATE Herbert Schroeder, Vice Provost COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND Mark Fitch, President, 2013-14 PUBLIC POLICY CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT Diane Hirshberg, President, 2014-15 Rashmi Prasad, Dean Susan Kalina, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs UAA ASSEMBLY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Elizabeth Winfree, President, 2013-15 Heather Ryan, Dean HEALTH PROGRAMS Jan Harris, Vice Provost CLASSIFIED COUNCIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Elizabeth Winfree, President, 2014-15 T. Bart Quimby, Interim Dean RESEARCH AND GRADUATE Kathleen McCoy, President, 2013-14 (effective 5/2014) STUDIES Tien-Chien Jen, Dean (7/2013 - 5/2014) Helena S. Wisniewski, Vice Provost APT COUNCIL Kathleen McCoy, President, 2014-15 COLLEGE OF HEALTH Christine Lidren, President, 2013-14 William Hogan, Dean COMMUNITY CAMPUSES KENAI PENINSULA COLLEGE COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL Gary Turner, Director COLLEGE Bonnie Nygard, Interim Dean (effective 8/2014) KODIAK COLLEGE Karen Schmitt, Dean (2010-2014) Alan Fugleberg, Director (effective 6/2014) CONSORTIUM LIBRARY Barbara Bolson, Director (2007-2014) Steve Rollins, Dean MATANUSKA-SUSITNA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY HONORS COLLEGE Talis Colberg, Director John Mouracade, Interim Dean (effective 8/2014) PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND Ronald Spatz, Dean (2001-2014) COMMUNITY COLLEGE Dan O’Connor, Director (effective 6/2014) Chris Washko, Acting President (3/2014-6/2014) Jacob Ng, President (7/2013 - 3/2014) Table of Contents PART 1. YEAR IN REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS 2 New Leaders 4 Honors and Awards 11 2013-2014 Year in Review 16 Research Highlights PART 2. PERFORMANCE MEASURES 20 Degrees and Certificates Awarded 21 High Demand Job Area Awards 22 Undergraduate Retention Rate 23 Graduation Rate 24 Student Credit Hours 25 eLearning Student Credit Hours 26 Grant-Funded Research Expenditures 27 Total Grant Awards 28 University-Generated Revenue 29 Academic Program Outcomes Assessment 30 Focus on Diversity 31 Focus on Safety 32 Fast Facts 1 New Leaders ALAN P. FUGLEBERG accepted the position of director of GUNNAR KNAPP, professor of economics, was appointed UAA’s Kodiak College in June 2014. Fugleberg brings several director of UAA’s Institute for Social and Economic Research years of higher education experience, including student (ISER) in August, 2013. Knapp affairs, grant writing, workforce joined the faculty of ISER development, and academic in 1981 after receiving his program evaluation and assess- Ph.D. in Economics from Yale ment. He held progressively University, and has served more responsible positions at the in many administrative posts University of Montana, and has and on numerous special served as assistant director for committees at UAA. Academic Affairs and assistant He is an internationally rec- professor at Kodiak College since ognized scholar for his work 2011. He holds a Master’s of on fisheries marketing and the Public Administration from the Alaska salmon industry. University of Montana. T. BART QUIMBY was named acting dean of the College DAN O’CONNOR was named director of Prince William of Engineering in May 2014. Quimby had served as profes- Sound Community College in June 2014. O’Connor has more sor of civil engineering since than 30 years of experience as 1996 and chaired the depart- an educator, coach and admin- ment from 1998 to 2004. He istrator at secondary, two-year also served as associate vice and four-year colleges and provost from 2008 to 2011 and universities in Pennsylvania, associate dean of the College of Ohio and California. Before Engineering, 2012-2014. joining the staff at Prince Quimby, who had announced William Sound in November his retirement, earned profes- 2013 as vice president of sor emeritus status in May. He Institutional Effectiveness, he earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engi- served as dean of Academic neering from Brigham Young Affairs for nine years at University. Bakersfield College in California. He received his Ph.D. in higher education from LaSalle University. BONNIE NYGARD was named interim dean of the KEITH HACKETT started as athletic director in September Community and Technical College (CTC) in June 2014. 2013. A university and administrative management executive Nygard has served UAA for almost 30 years in a variety with 36 years of higher educa- of roles, including associate tion, Hackett comes to UAA dean and interim dean in CTC. after working the past nine Nygard provided leadership to years as the senior associate create UAA’s first formal Tech athletic director at the Univer- Prep guidelines and UAA’s sity of Nevada. He also served current career pathway model, in executive administrative both of which have been adopt- positions at St. Gregory’s ed across the UA system. University in Shawnee, Since 2006 she has been the Oklahoma, St. Gregory’s assistant provost of Workforce University College for Work- Development and has assisted ing Adults in Tulsa, and UAA colleges and campuses Oklahoma City University. He with strategic planning. She earned his M.S. in education from the University of Kansas. earned her M.Ed. in adult education at UAA. 2 JIM MACKENZIE is the new assistant vice chancellor for UAA Development. Jim has more than 20 years in non- IN MEMORIAM profit, public and private sector management and leader- JOHN DEVENS, the founding president of Prince ship experience in Alaska. William Sound Community College, passed away in Most recently he was interim June at the age of 74. The University of Alaska executive director for Safe established learning centers Harbor Inn, and had served as in 1971 in Valdez and director of development and Cordova and in Copper communications for the Food Basin in 1976. These Bank of Alaska. He earned his learning centers laid the Master’s in public groundwork for the com- administration at UAA. munity college Devens founded with a $50,000 endowment from the City of Valdez in 1978. Devens JOHN MOURACADE, associate professor of Philosophy, continued as president of will serve as interim dean for the University PWSCC until 1992, a tenure Honors College. John has been a that took the institution from a two-room learning faculty member in the center to a fully-accredited community college with Department of Philosophy since residence halls. Devens also served on the Valdez City 2005, and he has served as chair Council and as a mayor. Born in Pennsylvania, Devens since 2009. John also co-chaired earned his Ph.D. in audiology from Wichita State the College of Arts and University and once served as deputy sheriff in Sciences Council of Chairs in Georgia. He remained in Alaska after he retired in 2014, and served as a member 1992. of the Academic Task Force for Prioritization. John earned both his Master’s and Ph.D. at the DAVID OUTCALT, UAA Chancellor from 1981- University of Rochester. 1986, passed away in November 2014 at the age of 78. He came to UAA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1980 to WELCOME NEW FACULTY serve as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. One During the last academic year UAA welcomed: year later he was appointed Chancellor. During his 82 new faculty members throughout the university, including: tenure, several new build- ings opened: the first resi- at Kenai Peninsula College, 3 dence halls, Administration 1 at Kodiak College, (now Administration and 1 at Mat-Su College, and Humanities), and Fine Arts. 3 at Prince William Sound Community College. He left UAA in 1986 for the Congratulations to: University of Wisconsin, Green Bay where he served as Chancellor until 1993. He taught mathematics at the 34 faculty who received tenure or were promoted in AY14. University of Wisconsin, Green Bay until his retirement in 1998 when he was named Chancellor Emeritus. 3 Honors & Awards STUDENT HONORS & AWARDS MICHAEL EDMOND KITURALRIA ULROAN is the first Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) graduate to serve as student commencement speaker. He spoke on his personal path from Chevak to UAA and to the first engineering graduate from his village. He credits a traditional upbringing that stresses self-reliance, and academic support from the ANSEP program with his successful completion of his civil engineering degree. Remedial work in chemistry and physics to make up for the lack of those classes in his village high school added time to his degree, but Ulroan said, “You don’t give up.” On the way to his degree, Ulroan completed two engineering internships with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium working on projects in Chevak. MICHAEL ULROAN, COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER RYAN BERGERSON, a civil RACHEL ROONEY, Kachemak Bay MICHAEL HOLMES, ASHLEY engineering major and German minor, Campus/UAA biology major, was one of SCHROEDER and DUDLEY BABB received the 2014-15 ten selected internationally to participate (physical education majors) placed fifth Congress-Bundestag in the Charles H. Turner Program at the in the national American College of Sports Scholarship. 2014 Annual Conference of the Animal Medicine Student Bowl. Teams of three Bergerson is the eighth Behavior Society at Princeton University students are quizzed on topics such as UAA recipient of this in August. Her research project, “Coastal anatomy, physiology, EKG, biomechanics prestigious scholarship, Northern River Otter (Lontra canadensis) and exercise prescription. It was the first which provides Behavior and Olfactory Communication time UAA fielded a team and the first for a year of at a Latrine Site,” received an under- time a team from Alaska participated in study and intern- graduate research grant from the UAA the competition. ship in Germany. Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship in 2012.