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Registration for the spring semester at Kodiak College begins for current students this week and for all others next week. Listeners may recall that students were told the fall semester would be held as expected even despite massive budget cuts to the university system. Things would be re-evaluated prior to the spring semester.   Kodiak College in Kodiak, Alaska. KMXT …

  Special Friday Edition of Talk of the Rock on Kodiak College fall semester. Friday, Sept. 6 is the last day to register for fall classes at Kodiak College. Online or at the college. The one exception is a class that is late starting by nature. KMXT hosted a discussion with three instructors on Talk of the Rock who talked …

The University of Alaska Board of Regents are in the process of restructuring the statewide system and would like to get feedback from interested Alaskans. Kodiak College Interim Director Betty Walters said there is an online survey where local residents can let the University president, the Board of Regents and its various working committees know what they think about possible …

A brush fire broke out near Kodiak College on Monday afternoon, according to a Nixle alert sent out by the Kodiak Police Department. A police dispatcher confirmed that the fire is contained, and should be extinguished by the end of the day, though the cause of the fire remains unknown. Both the City of Kodiak Fire Department and police are …

Kodiak College staff will soon be back to work for the fall semester, but without the new director that was hired earlier this summer.   Interim Director Betty Walters said on Thursday (this afternoon) that Jessica Paugh (Paw) has decided not to take the job as director of the college.   “Late yesterday afternoon I received an email from the …

  Alaska’s legislators did not have the votes needed on Wednesday to overturn the governor’s line-item vetoes. The largest cut was to the University of Alaska, which could devastate the university system, and have trickle down effects on Kodiak College. Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens spoke passionately in defense of university funding during Wednesday’s joint session of the House and Senate …

  While Kodiak College escaped the governor’s line-item veto pen, that doesn’t mean it is in the clear financially. That’s because the college is so interconnected with the University of Alaska Anchorage and the statewide system.  Cuts to those programs will mean that Kodiak would have to come up with money to replace some essential services. Those include legal, technical …

Kodiak residents can expect major cuts to ferry service but at least the governor did not cut the marine highway budget any further, according to Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens. Stevens said the governor’s budget cuts which were announced Friday morning, were no surprise, but he had hoped that they would be less than what they were. He cited a number …

Jessica Paugh is expected to fit in well and has many of the specific qualifications needed to lead the college, said Interim Director Betty Walters. University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Cathy Sandeen, said she looked forward to Paugh joining Kodiak College this summer.   The newly hired director of Kodiak College has a lot of the specifics that a person …

The final of three community meet-and-greets will be held at the college this evening. The college is hosting the three finalists for the position of Kodiak College Director as it works to hire and get a new person onboard this summer. “Absolutely. And typically the contractual year for a person in administration would be July 1.” That’s Betty Walters, the …