Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) Arctic Visting Speaker Grants now available. For further information, please go to:http://www.arcus.org/arctic_speaker/index.html or contact:Julie Griswold (julie@arcus.org), phone: +1-907-474-1600.


The Center for Distance Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is offering a fall semester online course entitled "Land, Environment, and People in the North." The fall semester begins Thursday, 1 September 2011. The last day for registration is Friday, 9 September 2011.



The OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) has launched a call for contributions for its General Conference: Maintaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education, 17-19 September 2012.


We have been working hard over the summer to figure out better ways to connect with you - our members - and help to keep APECS growing. We are happy to present to you the new Membership and Involvement Committee (MIC). This committee was formally the Organizational Development Committee (ODC) but we have revamped it t...

The University of the Arctic International Secretariat has returned back from summer holidays. We are looking forward to  working again with our colleagues from around the circumpolar North. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact secretariat@uarctic.org.




Nunavut Arctic College will soon offer a bachelor degree program in business administration -- the first of its kind in the North -- with help from a donation from the Royal Bank of Canada. The college will work with a university in southern Canada to offer the program, which will specialize in accounting. The program is expe...


OUR CONDOLENCES

Thu, Jul 28, 2011
The UArctic International Secretariat wishes to express its most sincere condolences to everyone affected by the recent tragic events in Oslo and Utøya, Norway. We are all saddened by the dreadful events, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our dear UArctic families in Norway.