Facing a massive budget cut from the Legislature, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen announced on Thursday that he will push to combine the system’s three campuses into a single combined university, ending the independent administration and accreditation of each. Potential advantages to single accreditation include greater flexibility in structuring and coordinating academic programs and administrative services across the system, fewer top-level administrators, greater responsiveness to student interests, and lower operating costs, he wrote.
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