The Board of Commissioners for the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), a global accreditation body for college and university business programs, has granted APU’s Institute of Business &…
Business Administration and Management
Honors Assembly Shines Light on Exemplary Students, Staff, Faculty
With the school year winding down, Alaska Pacific University took time last week to recognize it’s exemplary students, staff, and faculty members during the Annual Honors Assembly. Here are the…
2018 Retiring Professors Offer Departing Words of Wisdom
Carole Lund, Professor of Business Administration How long have you been at APU? What courses did you teach in that time? What other roles did you fill? I began at…
Professor Beverly Holmes Finds Business Degree in Unfinished Business
For associate business professor Beverly Holmes, everything is a story. Or at the very least, everything starts as a story, before morphing into a opportunity to learn. A story about…
One Woman, Two Degrees (Soon to be Three, Plus a Certificate)
When Desirae Roehl moved to Anchorage from King Cove in the Aleutians in 2008, she was looking for new opportunities. She had had a job at her tribal office doing…
Leadership Class Teaches Partnership and Self-Awareness
Though the Leadership course, a required class for Master of Business Administration students, doesn’t have traditional tests, co-instructor Christopher Pavadore would argue that the students are constantly being tested. During the two-week…
Fall Innovation MBA Classes – Innovation and Lean Startups
Alaska Pacific University’s Hickel Endowment for Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship is offering two new fall courses: Innovation Strategies for Business (MBA60710, 1 Credit) and Lean Startup and Business Model Creation…
Startup Weekend
by Miriam Mezzetti Alaska Pacific University values our Alaskan community. We love encouraging our fellow Alaskans to pursue their educational and professional dreams. We therefore support events like Startup Weekend:…
Alaska Native Executive Leadership Achievements: Graduation!
Alaska Pacific University congratulates its Alaska Native Executive Leadership Program (ANELP) graduates! Eighteen professionals from Alaska Native corporations and non-profits were selected by their companies’ management teams for ANELP’s nine…
Breaking News: American Children are Less Obese, Shorter, More Diverse, and Possibly Younger
Written by Dale Lehman, Ph.D., Director of MBA Programs and Professor of Economics at APU You may have seen recent news headlines such as “Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43%…
