University of Alaska Anchorage
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Image:Uaa alaska-seal.jpg The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest member of the University of Alaska System, with over 17,000 students (14,000 of which attend classes at the main Anchorage campus).
UAA comprises six teaching units: the Colleges of Education, Health and Social Welfare, Arts and Sciences, and Business and Public Policy, the Community and Technical College, and the School of Engineering. There are four community campuses: Matanuska-Susitna College, Kenai Peninsula College, Kodiak College, and Prince William Sound Community College.
The university's history began in 1954, when the Anchorage Community College opened, using the then-Anchorage High School building at night. Anchorage Senior College began providing upper-division classes in 1969, becoming the four-year University of Alaska Anchorage in 1976. UAA, ACC, and ACC's rural extension units merged in 1987 to form the present institution. UAA is the home of the NCATE-accredited UAA College of Education.
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Athletics
The UAA sports teams are known as the Seawolves, and the school colors are green & gold. UAA, which sponsors 11 sports programs, is an NCAA Division I school for gymnastics and hockey, and a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. UAA is a Division II member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in men's and women's basketball, volleyball, men's and women's cross country and men's and women's outdoor track and field. Other conference affiliations are the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (gymnastics) and the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association. UAA also hosts the nationally-known Great Alaska Shootout college basketball tournament every Thanksgiving.
Student housing
UAA has limited student housing:
- Three co-educational residence halls (North, West, and East Halls), completed in 1998. Each holds 200 students, all in individual rooms; rooms are grouped in suites of one, two, or four.
- The Main Apartment Complex (MAC), completed in 1984, was once family housing. There are 74 four-bedroom apartments in six buildings, each housing four same-sex students.
- The Templewood Apartments hold 80 students in 20 apartments.
Colleges & Schools
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Business and Public Policy
- College of Education
- College of Health and Social Welfare
- Community and Technical College
- School of Engineering
- School of Nursing
- School of Social Work
- University Honors Program
Publications
Accolades is the University of Alaska Anchorage Magazine for Alumni and Friends.
The Alaska Quarterly Review (http://aqr.uaa.alaska.edu) is a literary magazine published by UAA.
The student newspaper is the Northern Light.
Notable Alumni
- Noelle Meyer, Miss Alaska USA 2006
External links
- UAA Home Page
- UAA Alumni Association
- UAA Seawolves Athletics
- UAA Organizational Chart
- Great Alaska Shootout
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