UAS Maritime Training Center

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We’re Hiring!

Fall classes are out and registration is open! We hope to see you in some of our classes!

Call 907-228-4511 or visit ketch.alaska.edu for more information!

Just a reminder this is coming up this week.

Next Wednesday, 3/27/24, @ 10:20am, NOAA will be testing our Tsunami Warning System. KFD and the City also worked with the University of Fairbanks to update our Tsunami Evacuation Map. Please stop by KFD if you are interested in an updated map.

The University of Alaska Southeast seeks a full-time Maintenance Service Worker. This position is covered by the Local 6070 Collective Bargaining Agreement and offers excellent benefits. Duties will involve a wide variety of tasks to maintain, operate, and repair university facilities. A valid Alaska driver's license is required at the time of hire. For position details and online application go to https://careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/527292/maintenance-service-worker UA is an AA/EO employer.

Community Job Posting

Do you enjoy working outside and want to join the Airport Ferry team? This position is responsible for crew work in connection with the maintenance and operation of the airport ferry.

$25-$28/hr. with opportunity for an additional $3,000 end of season incentive bonus.

USCG Drug Testing requirements.

Applicants can review the complete job description and apply here: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kgbak

We are excited that one of our own, Chris Boss, is being featured in the new Working Waterfronts exhibit at the Ketchikan City Museum! Stop by tonight for the grand opening if you can. If not, don’t worry it will be open for the rest of the year.

Angie and Ashley are hanging out at the Mariculture Conference of Alaska in Anchorage this week. If you are around, stop by and say hello! We are right next door to our friends

We have had a lot of requests for another Basic Welding class this semester and we are excited to announce this added course! This class will run March 25th-May 3rd, Monday through Thursday from 1-4pm.

For more information please contact 907-228-4511 or visit ketch.alaska.edu

Need to take your USCG exam for Junior Engineer? We are offering a 2.5 week intensive study course to help prepare you for the exam. After the course you will need to schedule your exam at your Regional USCG Exam Center.

Come join us for Crisis Management in Ketchikan March 4th and 5th. We still have a few spaces available.

Call 907-228-4511 or visit ketch.alaska.edu for more information.

We just finished up with our Ketchikan and Juneau Master 100 Ton last week, but we do have one more course to get your Captains License this semester in Sitka (3/11-3/22).

Call 907-228-4511 for more information or visit ketch.alaska.edu

We have a few spots still open for our February Advanced Firefighting!

Call 907-228-4511 for more information or visit ketch.alaska.edu

Due to the winter weather we will be opening 2 hours late today. Check with your instructors about your individual classes! We will post more updates if things change!

Happy Holidays from all of us at the MTC 🎄

We will see you next year!!

After 43 years of dedicated service to the University of Alaska Southeast, Dr. Priscilla Schulte announced plans to retire after the 2023 fall semester. Schulte has served as the Ketchikan Campus Director since 2013.

Dr. Priscilla Schulte joined the faculty of Ketchikan Community College in 1980 as Instructor of Anthropology/Sociology and was promoted to Professor of Anthropology/Sociology in 1994. She continued her teaching assignment after the transition to the University of Alaska Southeast, also serving as Assistant Director of Instruction. In recent years she took on a variety of interim leadership roles, including Interim Ketchikan Campus Director in 1999-2000 and again in 2012-2013, and as Interim Provost from 2015-2016.

Dr. Priscilla Schulte retires at the end of the Fall 2023 semester at the university, on December 31. Of her time serving the University of Alaska Southeast, Priscilla had these words to say: “It has been very rewarding to work with students throughout these years. I have had students return after working for many years and start a new career and others have gone on to get graduate certificates and degrees. UAS changes lives and I'm glad that I have been part of these experiences.”

As an educator and researcher, she specializes in cultural anthropology, multicultural education, Alaska Native cultures, sociocultural change, and the archaeology of southeast Alaska. As part of a partnership with the United States Forest Service, She has coordinated an annual field trip to do archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork with local Native elders, cultural teachers, and UAS students, which focus on the survey and inventory of important cultural sites located in southern southeast Alaska.

Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Schulte produced the Alaska Public Television documentary The Bear Stands Up (1994), that features Tlingit Elder Esther Shea of the Tongass Bear Clan, who dedicated her life to teaching the songs, language and values of Tlingit traditional life in Southeast Alaska. In 2008 she was recognized with an Emmy for her work as a content advisor for the series Physical Anthropology: The Evolving Human in the category of Best Instructional Programming. She is an adopted member of the Tongass Brown Bear clan of the Tlingit people, bestowed the name Seitkwa.

UAS Chancellor Aparna Palmer shared, “During her career, Priscilla has been an amazing leader, mentor, and colleague. She has given her heart and soul to UAS and has contributed so much to the Ketchikan campus and community. We will miss her greatly but we are happy for her as well!”

A huge Congratulations to our students who completed our QMED and MMSW program yesterday! We are proud of each and every one of you and are so glad we got to celebrate you yesterday!

Come join us for Construction Academy! Introduction to the Construction Trades (CT102) and Construction Tools and Materials (CT103) are two new classes available this spring! Call (907) 228-4511 for more information or visit uas.alaska.edu

Need Christmas present ideas for your mariner or welder? Stop by the Maritime Training Center and ask about our T-shirts, hoodies, crew necks, and beanies! We also have coffee mugs and playing cards! A bonus is our logos are designed by local artists and and printed in town with

Today our Welding Department hosted a welding competition sponsored by the American Welding Society that was open to any of our welding students. The participants included students from our Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced welding courses as well as QMED students! First place was rewarded a scholarship from AWS!

Our winners were:

1st: William Hout, Weld120
2nd: Musa Lokwa, QMED
3rd: Dakota Scranton, Weld175

We will have more photos and updates this week! Thank you to all of our participants for your hard work! Our faculty all had a blast watching you put forth your best effort in this friendly competition!

Spring 2024 schedule is available!

Call 907-228-4511 or visit uas.alaska.edu for more information. Don’t forget to ask about funding options.

We are offering Advanced Fire Fighting December 5th-8th!

We have a few spots left for this class. Call 907-228-4511 or visit uas.alaska.edu for more information.

Have the Sea Time and need a Basic Training Revalidation Course?

We have a few open spots in our November 28th and 29th class! Call (907)228-4511 for more information or visit uas.alaska.edu

We added an extra Basic Training class this semester due to demand and have a couple spaces left! For more information call 907-2284511 or visit uas.alaska.edu

We have a few open spots in our daytime welding class that starts next week! It is open for both beginner and intermediate welding. This class is open for anyone 16 and up and is a STEP grant eligible course! For more information call 907-228-4511 or visit uas.alaska.edu

Need a radar endorsement? Our Radar Observer class still has a few spots still open for October 9th-13th. For more information call 907-228-4511 or visit uas.alaska.edu