The University of Alaska consists of the College of Agriculture, the School of Mines, the Department of Agricultural Experiment Station, the Department of Agricultural Extension Work, and other colleges and departments that may be established, including departments of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, museum, natural history, and palaeontology.
The University of Alaska is the beneficiary under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, designating the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines as beneficiary and the four sections of land specified by the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1915, and used as a site for the Alaska Agricultural […]
All powers, duties, and obligations devolving upon the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines in connection with or by reason of Acts of Congress, past or future, in relation to agricultural colleges and agricultural or mining experiment stations, extension work in agriculture, and instruction and extension work in the mechanic arts granted to and […]
(a) There is created and established a corporation to be called the University of Alaska. It may in that name (1) sue and be sued; (2) receive and hold real and personal property; (3) contract and be contracted with; a contract entered into by the University of Alaska for the (A) rent or lease of […]
The Board of Regents may establish an office of public safety and prescribe the conditions of employment of public safety officers employed by the office. University of Alaska public safety officers have general police powers to enforce state and local laws in connection with offenses committed on property of the university.
No instruction either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics shall be permitted in any department of the University of Alaska and no sectarian or partisan test shall be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents, instructors, or other officers of the University of Alaska or in the admission of students or for any […]
A person may not be deprived of the privileges of the University of Alaska because of sex, color, or nationality.
To expand educational and cultural opportunities in the state, to keep pace with the expansion of the state in other fields, and to provide educational facilities of particular interest to residents of the state, the Board of Regents shall (1) make a study of the principles and applicability of the junior college to the state; […]
Laws of the state designed to meet requirements of the United States government for the state’s acceptance of federal grants and allotments for educational and kindred purposes are extended to cover the establishment and operation of the university expansion program set forth in AS 14.40.055.
The University of Alaska shall use the property and funds acquired for the purpose of conducting a college where the leading objects shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach branches of learning related to agriculture, the mechanic arts, and household economics in order to promote a liberal […]
A person is not considered to be an employer of a student of the University of Alaska in a civil action based on the vicarious liability of an employer for the acts or omissions of an employee if the person (1) has agreed to allow the student to gain practical work experience with the person […]
The University of Alaska may collect and store the bones and other remains of the mammoth, mastodon, horse, bison, and other fossil remains of these and other extinct animals found in the state in mining and other excavations.
(a) The University of Alaska shall establish an Alaska Earthquake and Volcano Hazards Assessment Project within the seismology program of the geophysical institute. The project shall (1) collect, record, process, and archive seismic data on earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the state; (2) conduct seismological studies relating to earthquake and volcano hazards assessment; (3) evaluate […]
The University of Alaska may establish an Institute of Marine Sciences to provide a program of education and research in physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, and related fields. When established, the Institute of Marine Sciences shall be maintained and operated as an integral part of the University of Alaska, at one or more sites determined […]
The University of Alaska may establish a training program in the operation of unmanned aircraft systems.
(a) The University of Alaska shall establish an Alaska State Climate Center within an appropriate unit of the university. The administration and management of the center is under the direction of a university employee designated the “state climatologist.” (b) The Alaska State Climate Center shall (1) prepare and update on a biennial basis a plan […]
(a) The University of Alaska shall establish an Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies in an appropriate unit of the university at its Anchorage campus. The institute shall consist of a research and instruction branch and an administration and information branch. (b) The institute shall (1) encourage international cooperation, especially among circumpolar nations, with regard to […]
(a) The University of Alaska shall establish and offer to bona fide Alaska prospectors and miners in the state a correspondence course equal and parallel to the mining extension course being taught at present. (b) The University of Alaska may establish the minimum charge necessary to defray costs of material, books, and postage used in […]
(a) The University of Alaska may establish a Center for Information Technology at the University of Alaska Anchorage with major components at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Southeast. The center may charge fees for the services it provides. The university shall account for all fees collected under this section. The […]
The Board of Regents may conduct a college extension service, the leading object of which is to carry information on rural life subjects to the people of the state.
