The UAA College of Business and Public Policy (CBPP) is a dynamic academic resource that serves and reflects Anchorage, Alaska's largest metropolitan community. Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the College has an impressive faculty who bring a wide range of academic and industry expertise to students and community partners. CBPP students represent all age groups, ethnicities and backgrounds.
The College of Business and Public Policy was founded in 1973, has over 15 degree programs, is accredited by the AACSB, and currently serves over 2100 students.
More than 280 students graduated from the college in the twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen academic year, and it has over 8000 alumni.
Director of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research (CAEPR) and Research Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Dr. Dayna DeFeo, was recently featured by KTUU to discuss the growing concern around the number of teachers in Alaska.
Read: Dr. Dayna DeFeo featured on KTUU regarding concern…
The Alaska Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) held their annual professional development conference, Growing Stronger Together 2019, this week in Anchorage. Several presenters came from the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) this year to speak on a range of topics throughout the conference.
Read: ISER Researchers and Director deliver…
The Institute of Social and Economic Research’s (ISER) Dr. Mouhcine Guettabi, Associate Professor of Economics, was recently published in Scientific American where he discussed his recent research and results on the impact of universal basic income (UBI) on childhood obesity. The article drew from a longer report which Dr. Guettabi co-authored with Drs. Brett Watson and Matthew Reimer.
Read: Associate Professor of Economics Dr. Mouhcine…
"For the military, they're really concerned about things like installations," said Chad Briggs, Director of Public Policy and Administration for the University of Alaska Anchorage's College of Business and Public Policy. "If you have installations that are built on permafrost and that's going to be melting. If you have wildfires that are going to be affecting energy lines. Whether they have to be protecting pipelines or power lines. It affects sort of how they're going to be planning for the future."
Read: Dr. Chad Briggs Talks Climate Change on KTVA
The College of Business and Public Policy (CBPP) has partnered with the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) who will now be supporting students pursuing bachelor's degrees in the college of business programs including accounting, business management, economics, finance, and more through the ANSEP University Success academic learning community.
Read: ANSEP for Business
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Instagram Image: Here in Fairbanks for UA Scholar Night!📚#UAScholars
Instagram Image: Please join us in thanking KeyBank for presenting a philanthropic donation to the CBPP’s Alaska Native Business Management Minor program!😊
Instagram Image: Are you taking any classes with Professor Terry Fields in the Weidner Center this semester?!
Instagram Image: Welcome to a new academic year at the CBPP! What are you looking forward to most this semester?📚
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Instagram Image: Visit UAA's Green & Gold and learn about College of Business and Public Policy graduate Chidi Iwuoha. #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp #collegelife
Instagram Image: Congratulations to all of our spring 2019 graduates! And we wish everyone a warm and sunny summer. #cbpp #uaacbpp #uaa
Instagram Image: Stop by the Cuddy Quad tomorrow anytime between 10am and noon to celebrate the campus launch of Kaladi Brother's Team Spirit, Seawolf blend!
The KBC truck will be on campus serving free coffee and there will be donuts from Dipper Donuts! #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp #collegelife
Instagram Image: Congratulations to finance major Geser Bat-Erdene. Geser has been selected as the spring 2019 student commencement speaker! #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp #graduation #commencement
Instagram Image: Congratulations to the UAA Team for placing first in At Large Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!
Team members pictured left to right: David Crisafi-Lurtsema (CS, CoE), Matthew Berry(CSE, CoE), Kenneth Hood (MIS,CBPP), Wes Dellinger(MIS, CBPP), Rayce Toms(CS, CoE ), Kavyn Yah(CS, CoE), David Counts (MIS, CBPP), Joel Keller(CS, CoE)
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Instagram Image: The College of Business and Public Policy's Professor John Duffy received an honorary doctorate from The School of International Relations and Public Administration (SIRPA) at the National University of Mongolia (NUM) on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019.
Instagram Image: We hope everyone has a terrific Spring Break! Reminder: the UAA campus will be closed on Friday March 15 and will reopen Saturday March 16. We look forward to seeing you all when you return! #springbreak2019 #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp
Instagram Image: Professor Maroš Servátka from Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney is visiting the Economics and Public Policy department for his sabbatical. Maroš is an experimental and behavioral economist with a PhD from University of Arizona. While at CBPP he is working on his research exploring behavioral factors influencing firm boundaries and studying links between governance structure and wage compression. Together with Professor Jim Murphy, Maroš is also co-organizing the UAA Lecture Series on Experimental Economics and Philanthropy. #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp
Instagram Image: Nathaly Rivera is another new face at the CBPP. She is working with the Economics and Public Policy department as a post doctoral researcher. Nathaly holds an MSc degree in Regional Economics from Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), and a PhD degree in Environmental and Resource Economics from MSU. #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp
Instagram Image: The College of Business and Public Policy would like to welcome Kelcie Ralph, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers University. She is visiting us from New Jersey while on sabbatical and is working on her research titled “Who is Distracted by Distracted Pedestrians”. Kelcie earned her BA in economics at CBPP in 2009. #uaa #uaacbpp #cbpp #collegelife