Goal 6
Serve as an academic gateway to the study of North Pacific and Circumpolar Northern land and seas
°®ÎÛ´«Ã½â€™s international research cooperation and programmatic connections with circumpolar and north Pacific nations, including the Russian Far East, can have a tremendous impact on Alaska’s economic development. Expertise in arctic research and related policy development positions °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ to prepare others to study northern regions. °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ will coordinate efforts underway across campuses and draw on the expertise of faculty, staff and local leaders to enhance °®ÎÛ´«Ã½â€™s ability to serve as an academic gateway to the northern part of the world by 2005, utilizing the following strategies:
- Further develop bilateral and multilateral research and study exchange programs and
the supporting infrastructure.
- Provide encouragement and incentives for outside students and researchers interested in or studying the North to undertake a portion of their program at UAF.
- Provide encouragement and incentives for °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ students and faculty to be involved in international exchanges.
- Improve procedures to facilitate articulation of and collaboration with graduate degree programs at other institutions.
- Enhance °®ÎÛ´«Ã½â€™s activities in international northern research.
- Designate specific offices to coordinate and communicate existing and future efforts to improve coordination between research institutes, especially the International Arctic Research Center, and other °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ academic programs.
- Become an international resource center for digital archiving and delivery of scholarly resources concerning the North.