ANSEP students can go from finishing eighth grade to a Bachelor’s degree in five years with Acceleration Academy!
- ANSEP families can save $75,000 or more in college costs when their students attend an ANSEP full time Acceleration Academy high school.
- Starting the clock in ninth grade, the expected cost to local/state/federal government of a degree at the University of Alaska Anchorage is nearly $300,000 because only about one third of students attempting degrees succeed after 10 years.
- Using the same criteria with the ANSEP model, the cost is less than $100,000, remediation is eliminated, and the social cost of failure is reduced.
ANSEP is working with thousands of students from more than 100 communities starting in Kindergarten and every year through the PhD. Click below to explore ANSEP’s components and all of the opportunities available for students.
Matt Calhoun named new Executive Director for ANSEP
Matt Calhoun, Ph.D. (Athabaskan) has been selected as the new full-time executive director of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP). A graduate of ANSEP, former program assistant director, and associate professor of civil engineering at UAA, Calhoun has led ANSEP as interim executive director since spring 2023. Read more here.
ANSEP celebrates another record-breaking year for full-time Acceleration Academy component and honors university graduates
ANSEP is celebrating its largest-ever graduating class of full-time Acceleration Academy students. Fifty-two students from the Anchorage, Bethel, Matanuska-Susitna and statewide campuses earned their high school diplomas and have earned an impressive total of 3,336 college credits earned for free as ANSEP Acceleration Academy students. Read more here.
