Your gift to CIS uplifts Alaska Native cultures, languages and communities across the state. Support strengthens rural student scholarships, regional campuses, Native language revitalization, the Festival of Native Arts and One Health initiatives that honor the deep connections between people, animals and the land. Together, we are sustaining knowledge, opportunity and cultural celebration for generations to come.
Register as a UAF College of Indigenous Studies Champion
UAF College of Indigenous Studies needs volunteer Champions to tell their community why donating is important this UA Giving Day. Scroll down to view UAF College of Indigenous Studies priorities you can advocate for and Challenge awards your community can help unlock. Registration is open now.
Advocate for these priorities this UA Giving Day:
- College of Indigenous Studies Support: Partner with the College to develop a new generation of leaders focused on Alaska Native culture and Indigenous leadership practices.
- Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI): Sustain a legacy of empowering our next generation to discover their potential, at no charge to the student. For over 40 years, RAHI has welcomed rural and Alaska Native high school juniors and seniors from across the state to the UAF Troth Yeddha' campus for six transformative summer weeks.
- Strengthening Alaska's Native Languages: Preserve and revitalize endangered languages through supporting the teaching, research, and documentation of Dene, Yup’ik and Inupiaq languages and more, providing cultural connection opportunities around the state.
- Festival of Native Arts: Support the annual, student planned and led celebration of Alaska Native traditions hosted at UAF, by funding dance groups, artists, elders, hands-on workshops, and more.
Other UAF College of Indigenous Studies priorities:
Bristol Bay Campus Support, Chukchi Campus Support, Kuskokwim Campus Support, Northwest Campus Support, One Health Program Support, and Rural Student Services Support.
