TO: UAF students
FROM: UAF Chancellor Brian Rogers
SUBJECT: Welcome to Fall 2010
Whether you’re in Fairbanks or downtown at UAF's Community and Technical College, at the Interior-Aleutians Campus or at one of our community campuses in Bethel, Dillingham, Kotzebue or Nome, I'd like to officially welcome you to UAF for the 2010-2011 academic year.
I encourage you to get involved at your campus. Take advantage of opportunities for leadership development, undergraduate and graduate research and public service. Together with our faculty, your involvement could help make a difference in one of the many Alaska communities where we study, teach and serve.
I encourage you help to shape the campus of the future. That's what Fairbanks students did in 2009 when they voted to charge themselves a $20 sustainability fee. The fee—funds that are matched by my office—will, over the next decade, help support overall efforts for a greener campus.
The best of Alaska's future is, in many ways, represented by some 10,000 students from all over the state, the U.S. and more than three dozen countries converging this week at UAF's campuses. Your involvement is essential to your success and to ours.
I wish you all the very best -- academically and personally. Have a fantastic semester!
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Students, staff and faculty are invited to attend fall convocation, Thursday, Sept. 9 from 1 - 2 p.m. in the Charles Davis Concert Hall. An ice cream social will take place at each of the campuses afterward. The event will also be webcast.
Information about the fall semester is also online in the Cornerstone newsletter at http://www.uaf.edu/
