UAA helps increase access to STEM fields for Alaska high school students
 

UAA helps increase access into STEM fields for Alaska high school students

By: Staff   Nov 17, 2009

Statewide partners gather to sign an Engineering Academies MOU to grow Alaska’s technical workforce


ANCHORAGE, AK – The University of Alaska and the Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium (APICC) have reached an agreement to collaborate with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development and the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development to plan, develop and support access to engineering academies for public high school students in Alaska. This initiative will help build a pipeline of highly qualified Alaskans to enter careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, fields.

Today, Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 4:30 p.m., partners will sign an Engineering Academies MOU to establish the basis for collaborative work in planning, developing a funding proposal and establishing a coordinated implementation system for sustaining the initiative. The meeting will be held at the University of Alaska Anchorage, UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307.

Signing as partners are:
  • Todd Bergman, Executive Director of APICC
  • Fran Ulmer, Chancellor, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Brian Rogers, Chancellor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • John Pugh, Chancellor, University of Alaska Southeast
  • Larry LeDoux, Commissioner, Alaska Department of   Education and Early Development
  • Click Bishop, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Education and Workforce Development
Also in attendance will be Stephanie Garrard, Alaska Contributions Manager for Wells Fargo Bank Alaska, who will issue a challenge grant announcement. This is significant in helping jump start fundraising efforts, both monetary and technical, to help move the initiative forward.
Because of its commitment to growing Alaska’s workforce and its nearly 50 years in Alaska, Shell will step up to issue the initiative’s first industry contribution at the signing ceremony.