At this point, budget cuts are the norm for the University of Alaska system. In the past five years, the university has had to cut about 1,200 jobs, University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor Rick ...

ANCHORAGE — Jim Johnsen, the embattled University of Alaska president whose term has been marked by no-confidence votes from the faculty amid deep budget cuts, has resigned, the university ...

But after Gov. Mike Dunleavy's recent veto of the state budget, which cut $130 million of state funding for the University of Alaska system, Knight said he might have to leave his beloved state.