Frances Ann "Fran" Ulmer is an American administrator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under Governor Tony Knowles, becoming the first female elected to statewide office in Alaska. She later served as the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is an official academic body responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in California and Hawaii, the territories of Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas Islands, in addition to the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Pacific Rim, East Asia, and areas of the Pacific and East Asia.
The Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines, abbreviated as CHED, is a government agency attached to the Office of the President of the Philippines for administrative purposes. It covers both public and private higher education institutions as well as degree-granting programs in all post-secondary educational institutions in the country.
The Higher Education Commission (HEC), is an independent, autonomous, and statutory institution of primary funding, overseeing, regulating, and accrediting the higher education institutions in Pakistan.
The California Department of Education is an agency within the Government of California that oversees public education. Its headquarters are located in the U.S. state of California's capital city, Sacramento.
Following independence from the Soviet Union, a major economic depression cut "public financing" for education in Kazakhstan, "which dropped from 6% of gross domestic product in 1991 to about 3% in 1994, before rising to 4% in 1999." Elementary- and secondary-school teachers remain badly underpaid; in 1993 more than 30,000 teachers left education, many of them to seek more lucrative employment.
The Alaska Democratic Party is the affiliate branch of the United States Democratic Party in the state of Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage.
Craig Eaton Campbell is an American politician and businessman and is the current president and chief executive officer of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC). He joined the corporation as chief operating officer in February 2011, and was appointed president and CEO by the Board of Directors in October 2012.
George Frederick "Fred" Zook was an American educator who was President of the University of Akron, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and President of the American Council on Education.
Joseph A. García, was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from January 2011 to May 2016.
Catherine Andrea "Cathy" Giessel, is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Alaska, serving since 2011. Giessel is currently a member of the Alaska Senate representing District N, including Northeast Anchorage, Anchorage Hillside and the Turnagain Arm communities of Bird, Girdwood, Indian, and Anchorage, all within the Municipality of Anchorage. First elected in 2010 while self-identified with Tea Party values, she has also served as the vice-chair of the state Republican Party and held a career in nursing. Following redistricting, she was elected into a different senate seat in 2012 and serves as chair of the Resources Committee and is a member of the Senate Majority Caucus. After Senate President Pete Kelly was unseated in 2018, Giessel was elected as the next President of the Alaska Senate.
The 2014 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska, concurrently with the election of Alaska's Class II U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
William Martin Walker is an American attorney and politician who served as the 11th governor of Alaska, from 2014 to 2018. He is the second native-born governor of Alaska after William A. Egan.
Hank M. Bounds, Ph.D., is a lifelong educator and the current president of the University of Nebraska system, where he is the administrator for the four campuses in the university system. His most notable oversight pertains to the Turning Point USA incident on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in Aug. 2017, which attracted national debate. https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/state-of-conflict. He has announced that he will step down from this position later in the summer of 2019 and return to the South with his family. He previously served as the commissioner of higher education in Mississippi.
Elaine Elizabeth Abraham was a Tlingit elder and registered nurse who contributed to improving health care delivery in rural Alaska. Later active professionally in the field of education, she assisted with the creation of the Alaska Native Language Center, and, as a statewide administrator at the University of Alaska, in 1976, led the establishment of community colleges in underserved parts of the state.
Joe L. Hayes Jr. is an American businessman and politician. Elected to the Alaska House of Representatives from Fairbanks, Alaska in Nov. 2000. He was the only African American in the Alaska House during his term. A distinguished alumnus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks he was elected Student Body President and as a student appointed by the Alaska Governor to the Statewide University of Alaska Board of Regents. Hayes worked for a decade as Executive Director of the UAF Alumni Association.
The Minnesota Office of Higher Education is an executive branch agency that is responsible for the coordination of higher education of information, financial aid programs, statistics, and policy in the state of Minnesota. The agency does not run or administer the two public systems of higher education in Minnesota, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System or the University of Minnesota system.
Olga Katherine Torkelsen "Katie" Hurley, was the Secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening from 1944 to until his departure from office in 1953. She was Chief Clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955-56 and the secretary to the State Senate for five terms. In 1984, she was elected to seat 16-A in the state house, serving until January 1987.
