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Child Welfare Academy to host racial equity virtual workshop

Join the Child Welfare Academy (CWA) as we host a community conversation on the importance of talking about racism and inequality with our children.

Pride Month - Keep Learning, Keep Growing!

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The Office of Equity and Compliance is excited to collaborate with Native Student Services to share information at the intersection of indigenousness and Pride Month.

Meet Your Colleagues: Jennifer Motes

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Meet Your Colleagues is a weekly feature highlighting employees who make a positive impact at UAA through their work every day. This week, we're featuring Jennifer Motes, senior development officer for College of Health, University Advancement.

Grace period to use FY20 Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) funds has been extended

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The Employee Transitions and Benefits team would like to announce that effective immediately, the grace period to use FY20 Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) funds has been extended from September 15, 2020 to December 31, 2020. This means that the money leftover in your Health Care FSA after June 30, 2020 can be used for any services rendered up through December 31, 2020 and will not be forfeited until after December 31. If you enrolled or re-elected the Health Care FSA for FY21, those dollars will be used after your FY20 dollars have been exhausted. There is no action required by employees as this will all happen automatically through ASIFlex.

Summer Engineering Academies — still room in July camps!

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The UAA Summer Engineering Academies offer a series of week-long, STEM-themed, and hands-on summer camps for students in 5th grade through 12th grade. This year, the camps are fully online and there is still room in the following camps: July 6-10 - Videography (Grades 6-8) - Arduino Robotics (Grades 8-12) July 13-17 - Creative Coding (Grades 5-8) - Advanced Coding (Grades 8-12) July 20-24 - Creative Coding (Grades 6-8) - Advanced Coding (Grades 8-12) July 27-31 - Advanced Coding

Volunteers Needed for Student Emergency Fund Review Team

The Dean of Students Office administers the UAA Student Emergency Fund that provides financial assistance to University of Alaska Anchorage students who have experienced unanticipated, temporary financial hardships resulting from emergency or crisis situations or unplanned major life events like disruptions caused by COVID-19. The Dean of Students Office is looking for UAA faculty or staff members interested in volunteering to be part of the Review Team. The Review Team meets daily on Tuesdays through Fridays from 4-5 pm to discuss applications and make awards. Each member of the Review Team is assigned 1-2 applications a day, contacts students, collects documentation, and updates the record-keeping system. The Dean of Students Office needs 2-3 more individuals to be part of the team to manage the current caseload. Interested individuals should be detail-oriented, have good oral communication and decision-making skills, be prompt, reliable, hard-working, and compassionate. The Review Team will meet throughout the summer 2020 and fall 2020 semesters.

UAA Esports Lounge and USF Esports host "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" tournament

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On June 20th, 2020, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament "Go For The Gold (and Green) 2.0" was hosted by the UAA Esports Lounge and USF Esports, in partnership with MTA Gaming, for players in their respective states of Alaska and Florida. With over 40 participants, the tournament had some amazing competition with skilled players from the top of the Power Ranking (the system in which competitive Smash players are ranked regionally) in their home cities. After an intense Alaska v. Florida finale, Fortunato on Yoshi won the tournament, representing the Sunshine State. Next month, the UAA Esports Lounge and USF Esports, in tandem with sponsor GCI, will introduce a new collaboration tournament featuring the popular MOBA League of Legends. This tournament, dubbed "North & South: League of Legends" will take place over four weeks of high-stakes games, with a final invitational bracket for the top 8 teams.

Townhome for rent near Chester Creek Trail

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2 BR, 21/2 B, fully furnished and everything incl. even an electric sauna on the deck! Gas fireplace is cozy in the morning

UAA email forwarding policy change

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The following policy change to the UA system Accounting and Administrative Manual

UAA’s Student Support Fund offers relief during uncertain financial circumstances

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For UAA’s student population, COVID-19 hit hard. Transitioning from the classroom to alternative learning was hard enough already without the financial burden of worrying about how to make ends meet. For more than 340 UAA students, the Student Support Fund offered financial relief and peace of mind.

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