Alaska Native Success Initiative (ANSI)

Vision

Build an Alaska Native community within UAA and be a global leader in Alaska Native student success, teaching, and scholarship.

Priority 1: Alaska Native Students

Increase Alaska Native Student preparation, recruitment, retention, and graduation rates.
Goal 1: Eliminate the need for remediation and reduce the time to earn their degree for graduated high school students.
Goal 2: Have 15% of the total enrolled students be Alaska Native.
Goal 3: Increase Alaska Native retention and graduation rates.

Priority 2: Alaska Native Faculty & Staff

Increase recruitment & retention of Alaska Native Faculty & Staff.
Goal: Increase the percentage of Alaska Native Faculty from 6% & Alaska Native Staff from 7.5% to 20%.

Priority 3: Institution (Internal & External)

Create a culture of belonging for Alaska Native Students, Faculty, Staff, & Community Organizations.
Goal 1: Resource Alaska Native Academic Departments & Student Support Programs.
Goal 2: Increase Alaska Native representation both internally & externally.
Goal 3: Improve Human Resources’ policies & practices.

More Information

ANSI Strategic Plan Executive Summary 
UAA ANSI Enrollment and Employee Trends Fall 2022-Fall 2024
ANSI Accreditation - Progress Report 5-22-25
University of Alaska ANSI page 
ANSI 2024 Report to the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) 
Native Programs Spring 2025 Newsletter 

Chanshtnu Council

Vision

UAA continually prioritizes Alaska Native Success through honoring and the representation of Indigenous Knowledge throughout our learning community. The Chanshtnu Council includes the Alaska Native Academic and Student Success Program Faculty and Staff, Student leaders, Faculty and Staff.

Alaska Native Academic Programs

Alaska Native Studies — Anchorage Campus
Alaska Native Studies — Kenai Peninsula College (KPC)
Alutiiq Studies — Kodiak College
Alaska Native Art
Alaska Native Business Management
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

Alaska Native Student Success Programs

Native Student Services (NSS)
Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP)
Alaska Native Community Advancement in Psychology (ANCAP)/ Alaska Natives into Psychology (ANPsych)
Alaska Native, Indigenous & Rural Outreach Program (ANIROP) & The Cama-i Room
Alaska Traditional Kitchen (AKTK)
Della Keats
Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN)
Department of Community & Belonging

Land Acknowledgements

UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples.

Dena’ina

Dena'inaq ełnen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu: “I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina.”
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. Dena’ina to English translation by Helen Dick, Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak

Ahtna Denaey

Danse nene' ghestnaa eł izdaa: “I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina.”
Audio by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart. Ahtna Denaey to English translation

Yup'ik

Uitalartua caliaqlua-llu Dena’ina-t nuniitni: “I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina.”
Audio by Quentin Simeon. Yup'ik to English translation by Alice Rearden

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