Overview
A key element of UAS’ leadership structure is the Provost’s Council which currently meets twice per academic year. This entity consists of academic leaders, including the Provost, Academic Deans, the Library Director, extended Campus Directors, the Registrar, the Director of Institutional Effectiveness, the Faculty Senate President, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, and the Vice Chancellor for Administration. The UAS Provost’s Council serves as a key forum for strategic planning and cross-institutional coordination, supporting the Provost in ensuring the quality of all academic programs and services. It also works to ensure integration of student services, enrollment management, and academic functions across the university.
Executive Provost's Council is a subset of Provost Council that meets monthly with the provost to address academic matters. The Executive Provost Council consists of the two extended Campus Directors, the Library Director, and the three Academic Deans.
For more information contact the Provost's Office at (907) 796-6147.
 Chancellor Phone: 796-6509, Fax: 796-6469 Email: ktcarey@alaska.edu Chancellor's Office Hendrickson Bldg, 206, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus Education
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 Interim Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Associate Professor of Accounting Phone: 907-796-6353, Second Phone: 1-800-478-9069 Email: mmhaavig@alaska.edu Provost Office Novatney Bldg, Rm 101A, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationWalden University, Doctor of Business Administration - Accounting Emphasis University of Alaska Southeast, Master of Business Administration University of Alaska Southeast, Bachelors of Business Administration - Accounting Emphasis Western Washington University, Fairhaven College, Bachelors of Arts - Interdisciplinary Concentration AffiliationsAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants American Accounting Association Institute of Managerial Accountants Government Finance Officers Association Courses TaughtACCT 201/202 Principles of Financial/Managerial Accounting ACCT 310 Income Tax for Individuals ACCT 342 Advanced Managerial Cost ACCT 379 Fund and Governmental Accounting BA 325 Financial Management OtherAwards MBA Excellence Award – Recipient, 2012 UAS Cohort Licenses/Certifications Certified Public Accountant (Alaska) Quality Matters Teaching Online Certificate Professional Work Experience State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Finance Officer Alaska Pacific Bank, Controller Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, Accountant and Internal Auditor State of Alaska Legislature, Division of Legislative Audit, Auditor, Juneau, AK |
 Interim Dean for Arts and Sciences, Interim Vice-Provost for Research and Sponsored Programs Phone: 907-796-6518 Email: pjmartin2@alaska.edu |
 Executive Dean of the Alaska College of Education Phone: 907-796-6050 Email: satwater@alaska.edu Alaska College of Education Hendrickson Annex, 101B, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus BiographyAtwater joined UA in Nov. 2014 after five years as superintendent of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, where he was named Alaska’s 2013 Superintendent of the Year. Prior to his work for KPBSD, Atwater taught secondary education and served consecutively as head teacher, curriculum coordinator and superintendent for the Lake & Peninsula School District in King Salmon, AK. Atwater’s experience with the Alaska education system extends to his own professional training, as he earned both his master’s in education and his doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. |
 Ketchikan Campus Director, Professor of Anthropology/Sociology Phone: 228-4515, Fax: 225-3624 Email: pmschulte@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, Ketchikan Director's Office Ziegler Bldg, Room 116A, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan EducationPh.D., University of New Mexico. Dr. Schulte specializes in multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures, sociocultural change, and archaeology of southeast Alaska. 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. |
 UAS Library Dean, including the Learning, Testing, & Writing Centers, & the Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT) Phone: 796-6467 Email: emtomlinson@alaska.edu Egan Library Egan Library, Room 208, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationMaster of Public Administration, University of Alaska Southeast, 2020 Courses TaughtLS110 - Library Resources and Information Literacy LS111 - Library Information Literacy for Distance Students BiographyHired by the UAS Egan Library in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Elise has worked in school, public, special, and academic libraries for the past 30 years. She received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, in 2006, and became the Regional Library Director for UAS in 2012. In 2016 she also began overseeing the Juneau campus Learning, Testing, and Writing Centers and the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). Her position title changed to UAS Library Dean in 2018. Outside of librarianship, Elise is a painter and a photographer who exhibits regularly in Juneau. She also loves to spend time with her family skiing, sailing, and playing musical instruments. Come by and say hello the next time you're in the library! HoursMonday-Friday, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm |
 Executive Dean, Career Education; Assistant Professor, Construction Technology Phone: 796-6139 Email: pbtraxler@alaska.edu |
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Institutional Effectiveness Director Phone: 907-796-6231 Email: krhandley@alaska.edu Institutional Effectiveness Hendrickson Bldg, 210, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus Education
AffiliationsVice President of the Pacific Northwest Association of Institutional Research and Planning (PNAIRP) |
 Professor of History Phone: 796-6329, Fax: 796-6406 Email: dhnoon@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Soboleff Bldg, 215, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationPh.D., University of Minnesota. Dr. Noon earned his degree in American Studies and teaches all periods of U.S. history. He is particularly interested in the period between the Civil War and World War I; the history of race and social science; and contemporary debates about empire in American history. BiographyDavid Noon has taught U.S. history on the UAS Juneau campus since Fall, 2002. His dissertation, “This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender, and ‘Development’ in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910,” displays the full range of Dr. Noon's research interests in history, which include developmental psychology, criminology, medicine, and the social construction of race and gender. More recently, Dr. Noon has written about the use of World War analogies in contemporary political rhetoric, cold war historical memory in the fiction of Don DeLillo, and the work of neoconservatives and Christian prophecy writers in the war on terrorism. |
 Vice Chancellor for Administration Phone: 796-6570, Fax: 796-6276 Email: michael.ciri@alaska.edu I.T. Services Hendrickson Bldg, 111, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationMichael Ciri was raised in the wilderness by wolves and dropped in front of the Mourant Building in 1982 to fend for himself. And he fended well. He went from student to student employee to a regular employee in computing in 1986. He became director of Information Technology and Media Services in 2000. He is UAS educated, receiving an AA in 1988, a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1994 and received his master's in Public Administration in 2007. He also holds the record for most consecutive years of living in student housing and is in the UAS mascot hall of fame as the original "Spike" the whale. |
 Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs; Interim Director of Recruitment, Admissions, and Advising Phone: 907-796-6057 Email: laklein@alaska.edu |