Aquaculture Semester

If you are interested in aquaculture and mariculture, we invite you to enhance your studies with a field-based program in Sitka, Alaska! Join us for this semester intensive program in the Fall Semester of 2023 offered by the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Applied Fisheries program. Sitka is a stronghold for Alaska aquaculture. Its pristine waters…

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Seminar for Rising HS Juniors & Seniors

This July, we are running our sixth Summer Seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors. Academics, labor & service, and self-governance, and creating transformative learning experiences for students. The Summer Seminar runs July 6 – August 5, 2023. Applications will be accepted until March 1, 2023. Current high school sophomores and juniors are eligible…

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Seeking Host Families

The Sitka AFS high school exchange program is seeking two more Sitka families to host students for the next school year. This year, students are from Latvia, Morocco, Cameroon and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Local training and support are available when hosting a student. Students arrive in August and stay until early June. Call Connie Kreiss…

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Sitka Fine Arts Camp 2023

Registration for all four Sitka Fine Arts Camp 2023 programs opened at midnight on January 1. Program Director Kenley Jackson and Executive Director Roger Schmidt joined KCAW’s Peter Apathy in the studio to discuss registration and programming plans for the summer. Listen to the story at KCAW.org. All the camp information you want can be…

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Outer Coast Year 2023-24 Application Opens

The Outer Coast Year is a transformative, community-based, student-governed postsecondary program for high school graduates. Key features of the Year: Interdisciplinary seminars for college credit that develop students’ communication and critical thinking skills. An academic curriculum that bridges Western and Indigenous ways of knowing. An Indigenous Studies curriculum led by long-term faculty members Yeidikookʼáa Dionne…

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