After a one-year hiatus during the pandemic, APU’s signature course returned to the Yukon River. Expedition Alaska is a 10-day rafting trip that introduces first-year students to Alaska and APU’s…
Photobook: Expedition Alaska 2021
Block Spotlight: Adventure Therapy
Adventure therapy is a subset of counseling psychology built upon a foundation of experiential education for personal growth and development. By stretching to achieve personal goals, participants experience beneficial social…
Meet Diane Droutman, Associate Professor of Nursing
Who inspires you? I feel inspired by students who against all the barriers and struggles persevere and achieve their goal. What was the best concert you ever attended? Peter, Paul,…
Meet Will Elliott, Assistant Professor of Writing
What’s your academic background? I finished college as a creative writing major with an interest in outdoor education, where I worked briefly after graduation. However, I still felt like I…
Inside Indian Country Today’s APU Bureau
“We call ourselves a 40-year-old startup,” joked Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today. The publication has gone through several iterations since launching in 1981 as Lakota Times, but has…
Meet Annette Rearden, Associate Professor of Nursing
What’s your academic background? I graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. My master’s is in nursing education from UAA. I am particularly interested in simulation, culturally…
Diversity on the trail
Like many APU students, Lilly Gritsavage will be in the mountains this summer. If it’s a windy day, look for the person wrapped in blankets at the trailhead. Enrolled in…
APU student research spotlights Eklutna Glacier
For more than a decade, Alaska Pacific University (APU) faculty and students have camped, dug, monitored, and measured on Eklutna Glacier, the main source of Anchorage’s water supply. Those years…
Seven women. Three weeks. One APU expedition.
Photos by Outdoor Studies student Addy Wright APU regularly offers expedition courses, but this year’s mountaineering class was special. For likely the first time in program history, all participants were…
Student investment class raises $1 million and counting
In APU’s Fund Management Practicum, students are given thousands of dollars to invest. But it’s not a classroom simulation. It’s real life. The university started a student-managed fund in 2001…