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Helping students bridge to engineering careers

A UAA civil engineering professor has, over the years, quietly been growing connections between his senior capstone students and professionals in Alaska’s engineering community, providing a bridge from academia to careers.

In just a few months, it will be time for civil engineering students in a UAA professor’s senior capstone class to move that knowledge out of the classroom and into a new career.

Fortunately, Dr. Osama Abaza’s Seawolf Engineering initiative has given these students a head start. They work as if they were consultant design teams on real-world projects for clients like DOT, community councils, the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility and Alaska State Parks.

Now, they’re designing a Kasilof boat launch facility, trail connector in the Bicentennial Park area, beach tower slope protection at Point Woronzof and a reliable water source for the Alaska Pacific University Nordic ski summer-training facility on Eagle Glacier.

Read the full article here.

Source: Helping students bridge to engineering careers – Green & Gold News

Workforce Wednesday: Culinary Arts career in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Alaskans hungry for a career in the culinary arts don’t have to look very far.

Wednesday,  Cari-Ann Ketterling with Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium and Rachel Saul, manager and part-owner of Fire Island Bakery in Anchorage, joined Daybreak to serve up a solution to those looking for a career in the Culinary Arts field.

NANA Management Services has approximately 120 positions open every other month. The majority of them are food service jobs such as catering coordinator, remote kitchen helper and cook. General manager positions in this area can make up to $90,000 per year.

Those looking for training have plenty of training options to choose from across the state.

“There’s training all over the state,” Ketterling said. “AV Tech, KCC, UAA, UAF, training in high school.  There’s high demand and high career.”

Visit NANA’s employment website to check for job openings in food services.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Culinary Arts career in Alaska | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Listen to UAA’s Debate Team: Should UAA Prioritize Workforce Development Over a Liberal Arts Education

debate_it_green_copyThe Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence, Difficult Dialogues Initiative and Seawolf Debate Program hosted a public debate, faculty forum and discussion: “UAA should prioritize workforce development over a liberal arts education.”

The media contains numerous reports of U.S. jobs going unfilled, or being outsourced to distant lands, because too few American workers have the requisite skills to perform them well. In Alaska, with the fiscal crisis expected to last into the foreseeable future, and with student debt rising, the pressure on students to have highly marketable skills is on the increase. More than two dozen universities in Japan are reducing or eliminating academic programs in the humanities and social sciences, following a dictum from Tokyo to focus on disciplines that “better meet society’s needs.” But don’t we need citizens capable of navigating their way through the complex social and political challenges we face, using skills and perspectives provided by a well-rounded liberal arts education? Listen to the debate recorded on November 14, 2015.

Source: University of Alaska Anchorage Podcasts

UAA’s Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College Hires Maritime Technology Program Coordinator

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UAA’s Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College is proud to announce that Marshall Bullock has been hired to serve as Kachemak Bay Campus’s new Maritime Technology Program Coordinator. Continue reading UAA’s Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College Hires Maritime Technology Program Coordinator

UAA School of Allied Health Partners with Southcentral Foundation

The UAA School of Allied Health is pleased to announce a partnership with the Southcentral Foundation’s (SCF) Nuka System of Care to implement a three-year HRSA Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant. The GWEP supports the development of a health care workforce that improves health outcomes for older adults by integrating geriatrics with primary care, maximizing patient and family engagement, and transforming the healthcare system. Called the AK GILD (Alaska Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Leadership Development), this program has two tracks: faculty and leadership. Read more here.