UAA College of Business and Public Policy

Leadership Fellows Mentor Interview - 4/3/2017

The College of Business and Public Policy's Leadership Fellows Program pairs high-performing CBPP students with a mentor in the Anchorage business community, giving students the opportunity to learn about real-world leadership from local business leaders. This year’s cohort includes 21 CBPP students, called protégés, and their mentors. To begin the program, each protégé interviewed their new mentor, and every week, we will feature one of these interviews with the mentors, who share their thoughts on leadership. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Maria Camila De La Torre, and her mentor Nolan Klouda.

Why Russia gave up Alaska, America’s gateway to the Arctic

Introduction: One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million. Read this fascinating article by Visiting Distinguished Professor, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley.

11th Annual Sophist Salmon Debate

Green & Gold Highlights CBPP's Weidner Property Management and Real Estate Program

The success of the College of Business and Public Policy’s property management and real estate concentration — part of our management degree is drawing attention. The demand for graduates with a management degree that includes property management is high and is leading to excellent career opportunities for CBPP students in our WPMRE program! Read the Green & Gold article and learn a little about a few of our gradutes.

Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story

Friday, March 31, 2017 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., RH 117 Presentation by: Jan Osborn Assistant Professor, Chapman University Department of English Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story is an experiment with integrating economics and ethics in a form that could be described as literary-critical economic nonfiction. By mapping the modern world of commerce into our interpretation of Percy Shelley's “Prometheus Unbound,” we revivify bourgeois life as Shelley revivifies the Promethean story with his own take on the myth. In doing so we make Shelley’s purpose our own, “to familiarize” our audience “with beautiful ideal-isms of moral excellence” in their everyday lives of commerce. Shelley’s point and ours is that any socioeconomic revolution, whether from the left or the right, will ultimately fail if it is fomented by despair, anger, and hate.