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UAS Student Support

Find your reason to give.

Name: UAS Student Support
Start: 2025-03-25T12:00:00-0800
End: 2025-03-27T13:00:00-0800
Location: UA Giving Day 2025

Ready or not, here it comes – UA Giving Day is here!

Across all our campuses, you’ll find hundreds of reasons to support our Southeast community. From now until March 27 at 1 p.m., click on the UAS priorities below to find new ways to support students, spark innovation, and build brighter futures. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see if there is a matching or challenge gift available for a program or scholarship that you love, so that your gift can be doubled or tripled.

Select Student Support opportunities below to add a gift to your UA Giving Day cart.

UAS Food Pantry: This fund supports students experiencing food insecurity, fostering a caring community and promoting student well-being on campus.

UAS Student Emergency Support: This fund aids students facing unexpected hardships, helping them stay focused on their education and succeed despite challenges.

UAS Alaska GED Achiever Endowed Scholarship: This fund supports students who have earned their GED, providing financial assistance for tuition and related educational expenses to further their academic journey—join us in empowering GED achievers to succeed today!

Akiyama Family Endowed Scholarship: This fund provides financial assistance to full-time students at UAS, helping them achieve their educational goals in Nursing, other medical or health-related fields, Biology, or Business—join us in supporting the future leaders in these vital sectors today!

$10,000

UA John C. Hughes Foundation for Alaska Educators

Thank you John C. Hughes Foundation and UA Giving Day donors! $10,000 has been unlocked to support the Patricia Hughes Eastaugh Teaching Scholarship and education students systemwide.

1,500 / 1,500 Donors

Completed

$2,000

UA Engineers Make it Happen Challenge

Thank you Stephanie Erickson and donors that are investing in UA programs as a solution to keeping and cultivating more bright community members working in Alaska. $2,000 has been unlocked for UAA College of Engineering and UAFA College of Engineering and Mines.

750 / 750 Donors

Completed

$1,500

UAS Michael Ciri and Jeri Cary Alaska GED Achiever Triple Your Gift

Thank you Michael Ciri, Jeri Cary, and UAS supporters! $XXX has been unlocked to support the UAS Alaska GED Achiever Endowed Scholarship!

$750 / $750 Raised

Completed

$2,000

UAF Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAF alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAF General Scholarship!

Completed

$2,000

UAA Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAA alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAA scholarships.

350 / 350 Donors

Completed

$10,000

UA Supporting Alaska's Educators Challenge

Thank you UA Foundation Director and Former Regent Mary K. Hughes and UA Giving Day donors! $10,000 has been unlocked to support the Patricia Hughes Eastaugh Teaching Scholarship and education students systemwide.

1,000 / 1,000 Donors

Completed

$10,000

UA Launch Power Hour

Thank you UA Foundation Board of Directors and UA Giving Day's first 200 donors! $10,000 has been unlocked for scholarships at UAA, UAF, UAS, and their community campuses.

200 / 200 Donors

Completed

Match

UAS Akiyama Family Endowed Scholarship Match

Thank you Akiyama Family and UAS supporters! $XXX has been unlocked to support the Akiyama Family Endowed scholarship!

$100 MATCHED

Ended

$2,000

UAS Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAS alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAS General Scholarship!

65 / 65 Donors

Completed

$6,000

UA Alaska Values Indigenous Knowledge Challenge

Thank you to the 2025+ donors that unlocked this additional support for these important initiatives at the University of Alaska, Troth Yeddha' Indigenous Center, Alaska Leaders Archive, and Cyril George Indigenous Knowledge Collection.

2,025 / 2,025 Donors

Completed