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 Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Phone: 907-228-4550 Email: spflorian@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, 506, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus BiographySteve Florian teaches all levels of university writing and serves as the Bachelor of Liberal Arts Distance Coordinator. In conjunction with the BLA program, he teaches Humanities 210 and Humanities 499, which serve as introductory and capstone classes to the degree. Before arriving in Ketchikan, Steve Florian taught composition, business writing, and academic first year experience classes at California State University Northridge; he also received his MA in Rhetoric and Composition from CSUN. He has also taught composition and critical thinking at Los Angeles Valley College and New York Film Academy. At one time a returning student himself, Steve’s main area of research interest is in retention and persistence among college students. He is currently working on a dissertation in that field through the Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Steve has presented papers at academic conferences across the United States and in Australia, on such diverse topics as protest rhetoric, the rhetoric of surfing, and the commerce of virtue in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. He lives with his wife, two children, three chickens, and a dog. | |
 Assistant Professor of Welding Phone: 907-228-4571 Email: rchoutcooper@alaska.edu Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
 Associate Professor of Mathematics Phone: 907-228-4502 Email: clianuzzi@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Paul Bldg, 509, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyColleen began working at the UAS Ketchikan Campus in 2006. She teaches courses up through first semester Calculus (Calc I), and elementary statistics. Outside of academics, Colleen enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, and skiijoring with her dog. | |
 Assistant Professor of Maritime Studies Phone: 907-228-4572 Email: mslabarge@alaska.edu Career Education: Marine Transportation Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 107, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
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 Assistant Professor of Marine Transportation Phone: 907-796-6153, Fax: 907-796-6577 Email: nlnickerson@alaska.edu Career Education Technical Education Center, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
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Courses TaughtMaster 100T/OUPV BiographyCaptain Nickerson is our Juneau based Maritime Professor. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our program and through his efforts has expanded the UAS Maritime presence in Juneau immensely. Captain Nickerson is a retired USCG officer and has many years of command experience aboard a variety of USCG Cutters. Upon his retirement from the USCG, he worked as a Mate aboard towing vessels with Crowley Maritime in Valdez and as a relief Mate/Chief Mate for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Captain Nickerson also was the owner/operator of Alaska Sailing Charters, commanding a 49 ft ketch on expedition, sightseeing and dinner charters. In his spare time, Captain Nickerson enjoys surfing, kayaking and travel - especially to destinations with big waves! | |
 Assistant Professor of Power Technology Phone: 907-228-4566, Fax: 907-228-4564 Email: ltoloane@alaska.edu Career Education: Marine Transportation Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationA.A.S., Oregon Institute of Technology Calhoon MEBA Engineer School USCG Licensed Marine Engineer | |
 Assistant Professor of Sociology & Political Science Phone: 907-228-4518 Email: kmpolanska@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, 517, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyKasia has worked at UAS Ketchikan as an Adjunct Instructor of Government and Sociology since 2007. She has also taught sociology and political science at the University of Minnesota, MN; Sacred Heart University, CT; and American Public University System, WV. Her past professional experience includes working for 7 years within the United Nations human rights treaty system as a Research Director of a non-governmental human rights organization. Her teaching and research interests are wide-ranging and include general and political sociology, institutions, social problems, social psychology, race and ethnicity, ethnic conflict, human rights, Europe, Latin America | |
 Professor of History Phone: 907-228-4541 Email: jtradzilowski@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, 503, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyHello! Welcome to my faculty homepage! I have taught history, art history and geography at UAS on the Ketchikan campus since 2007. Prior to moving to Alaska, I taught history courses at University of St. Thomas, Hamline University, and Anoka-Ramsey College in Minnesota. I also served as assistant project director at Center for Nations in Transition, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota where I helped design and administer USAID and State Department-sponsored training programs for business, economics, and political science faculty and NGO leaders in Ukraine and east central Europe. My research and teaching interests are wide-ranging and diverse: immigration and ethnicity, military history, war and genocide, the impact of technology on the history and geography of the Great Plains and Midwest, local and regional studies, and the history of Poland, Russia, Ukraine and central and eastern Europe. | |
 Professor of Science Phone: 907-228-4557 Email: cmrobinson7@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Ketchikan Campus | |
 Ketchikan Campus Director, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology Phone: 907-228-4515, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: pmschulte@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Ketchikan Director's Office Ziegler Bldg, 116A, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan Education
BiographyPriscilla Schulte has been teaching on the Ketchikan campus since 1980 and has been teaching distance classes for over ten years. Most of her students are in southeast Alaska, but some are from as far away as Connecticut. Priscilla has taught summer classes on the Juneau campus as well as distance delivery classes by video and audio conference to the Juneau campus. She teaches primarily lower division anthropology and sociology classes, as well as multicultural education classes. Priscilla started her teaching career by teaching anthropology at Dine College (formerly Navajo Community College) now located in Tsaile, Arizona. Her anthropological fieldwork in Arizona and Chicago sparked her interest in completing an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Connecticut. During her years of living and teaching on the Navajo Nation, she began her doctoral work at the University of New Mexico which she completed after her move to Alaska in 1980. Priscilla’s research and teaching interests are in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures (primarily of southeast Alaska), and Native American culture change. She produced the video, “The Bear Stands Up,” which has aired on public television. Her most recent research has focused on the totem pole carvers of the CCC era. She is an adopted member of the Tongass Brown Bear clan of the Tlingit people. She is the mother of two daughters who have inspired and encouraged her in her research and teaching. One of the most exciting events of Priscilla’s teaching year is the annual fieldtrip coordinated with the Forest Service to do archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork with local Native elders, cultural teachers, and UAS students. The field trips focus on the survey and inventory of important cultural sites located in southern southeast Alaska. | |
 Associate Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Department Chair Phone: 907-228-4527, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: wlurquhartii@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, 505, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyBill Urquhart teaches courses in sociology, general social science, humanities, and multicultural education. As a sociologist, his teaching interests include social problems, deviant behavior, social psychology, education, and criminology, with special focus areas in juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and social problems relevant to Alaska. Dr. Urquhart primarily teaches online and serves as the Distance Coordinator for the online Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree program. He is also the Project Director for a Title III grant for Alaska Native Serving Institutions titled "Strengthening Arts & Sciences eLearning Communities." Dr. Urquhart was born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, from a family long involved in commercial fishing. After graduating high school, he continued on to Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, and eventually to Tulane University, where his PhD focused on bullying and conflict resolution among high school students in New Orleans and in a village in Western Alaska. Bill enjoys spending time with his wife, Frankie, who is a high school science teacher, and their four children, Liam, Neila, Torran, and Kinsey. Bill plays the bagpipes with Ketchikan's Misty Thistle Pipes & Drums, and spends spare time fishing, hunting, and gathering with family. OtherAdvising contact for all distance-based students in the Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree | |
 Associate Professor of English & Communication Phone: 907-228-4514, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: twhalen1@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, 513, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyRaised by two passionate educators and two feisty younger sisters, Teague quickly learned that summers meant time to travel America's blue highways and to romp through small towns and national forests by bicycle, canoe, skis, and foot, followed by nights spent sleeping in a tent and usually with close friends in tow. Teague's college teaching ventures have transformed the classroom into kitchens, lakes, mountain tops, and tents when he was a Lecturer I for the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program for two spring terms in rural Maine. While a teaching fellow for Northern Michigan University, he pioneered an outdoor ecocomposition course in the wild Upper Peninsula (U.P.). When he could no longer "Say yeah to the U.P., eh?" he wondered how Alaska compared to the great-lake state. Used to two-tracks and lakes, pine-riddled hills, and weather that could change any minute, he found his mother was right (as a good mother tends to be) when she said that Alaska was like the U.P. on steroids. He has not been disappointed yet, and when he finds Ketchikan raining too much, he keeps his fingers busy composing lofty poems of a bluer heart or stories of longing for a drier hue. When that doesn't work, he takes up his axe planed out of Sitka spruce and gets down to picking away the steel strings in search of a cloudy love song. | |
 Associate Professor of Psychology Phone: 907-228-4563 Email: aaziegler@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Paul Bldg, 508, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationB.A., M.S., Ph.D. University of Michigan | |
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Ketchikan Campus Director, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology Phone: 907-228-4515, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: pmschulte@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Ketchikan Director's Office Ziegler Bldg, 116A, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan Education
BiographyPriscilla Schulte has been teaching on the Ketchikan campus since 1980 and has been teaching distance classes for over ten years. Most of her students are in southeast Alaska, but some are from as far away as Connecticut. Priscilla has taught summer classes on the Juneau campus as well as distance delivery classes by video and audio conference to the Juneau campus. She teaches primarily lower division anthropology and sociology classes, as well as multicultural education classes. Priscilla started her teaching career by teaching anthropology at Dine College (formerly Navajo Community College) now located in Tsaile, Arizona. Her anthropological fieldwork in Arizona and Chicago sparked her interest in completing an M.A. in anthropology at the University of Connecticut. During her years of living and teaching on the Navajo Nation, she began her doctoral work at the University of New Mexico which she completed after her move to Alaska in 1980. Priscilla’s research and teaching interests are in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures (primarily of southeast Alaska), and Native American culture change. She produced the video, “The Bear Stands Up,” which has aired on public television. Her most recent research has focused on the totem pole carvers of the CCC era. She is an adopted member of the Tongass Brown Bear clan of the Tlingit people. She is the mother of two daughters who have inspired and encouraged her in her research and teaching. One of the most exciting events of Priscilla’s teaching year is the annual fieldtrip coordinated with the Forest Service to do archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork with local Native elders, cultural teachers, and UAS students. The field trips focus on the survey and inventory of important cultural sites located in southern southeast Alaska. | |
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 Academic Support Specialist / Library Manager Phone: 907-228-4522, Fax: 907-228-4573 Email: kjbolling3@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 202, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
 Academic Advisor Phone: 907-228-4528 Email: jldriscoll@alaska.edu Ketchikan Campus Education
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 Weld/Power Tech/Marine Trades Assistant Phone: 907-228-4568 Email: acgoffredi@alaska.edu Career Education Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 102, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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 Student Services Specialist Phone: 907-228-4537, Fax: 907-228-4564 Email: alkosmos@alaska.edu Student Services Ketchikan Campus | |
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 Academic Support & Testing Center Supervisor / CIOS Adjunct Faculty Phone: 907-228-4507 Email: kcschulte@alaska.edu Ketchikan Campus Education
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BiographyKimberly Schulte has been teaching and working in computer/technology related fields throughout the past 10 years. After completing a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management at the University of Alabama, Kimberly worked for several years in Business Management. In the evenings Kimberly managed the computer lab at UAS-Ketchikan and was hired as Computer Lab Instructional Technician in 2003. Today she supports UAS faculty, students, & staff with technology needs. Currently Kimberly supervises the Ketchikan campus Computer Lab, Testing Center, Academic Support, and is an Adjunct instructor for Computer Literacy, Word and Excel courses. Kimberly has lived in New Mexico, Washington, & Alabama, but has spent most of her life in Ketchikan. She has traveled to all of the continental United States, been to a handful of European Countries, attended school in Japan on the exchange program, and vacationed several times in South American countries. Kimberly is married and has two children that add vibrancy to her life. | |
 Student Services Technician Phone: 907-228-4511, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: trnelson4@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
 Testing Center Specialist and HR Coordinator Phone: 907-228-4524, Second Phone: 907-228-4560 Email: isapelkina@alaska.edu Paul Bldg, 102, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
 Student Advisor Phone: 907-228-4565 Email: lscott28@alaska.edu Student Services Ziegler Bldg, 203B, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
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 Marine Transportation Program Assistant Phone: 907-228-4568 Email: astabb@alaska.edu Career Education Ketchikan Regional Maritime and Career Center, 102, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus Education
BiographyBefore moving to Ketchikan, I lived in Boise, Idaho. I worked for a small, independent bookstore called Rediscovered Books. Mostly, I spent my time raising my five wonderful children with my husband Jordan, training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and reading voraciously. In 2015, I began working as a substitute library assistant at the Ketchikan Public Library before transitioning to working at the UAS Ketchikan campus library until 2019. I now support students and faculty in our Career and Technical programs. I enjoy history, poetry, powerlifting, grappling, and a good strong cup of coffee. | |
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Academic Support Specialist / Library Manager Phone: 907-228-4522, Fax: 907-228-4573 Email: kjbolling3@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, 202, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
 Library Assistant Phone: 907-228-4538 Email: mlampton@alaska.edu Ziegler Bldg, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus | |
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 Physical Plant Supervisor Phone: 907-228-4533, Fax: 907-225-3624 Email: mffunk@alaska.edu Ketchikan Campus | |
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