"Make it Monday" forum - Transforming Alaska's Education System

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With all the challenges Alaska faces around education performance and education funding, it is time for us to explore the possibility of expanding upon what works. For 25 years, the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has been working to improve access to and quality of education while looking for opportunities to save students and the state money.

Now, with ANSEP, a student can go from eighth grade to earning a bachelor’s degree in six years. This dramatic improvement in academic outcomes saves families two years or more of college expenses and reduces time to a degree. In addition, university remediation and the associated costs for families and government are eliminated while reducing the social costs of failure.

Herbert Schroeder

Dr. Schroeder created the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) in 1995 with a single Alaska Native engineering undergraduate.  ANSEP has evolved into a sequential education model that provides a continuous string of linked components beginning in fifth grade, continuing through high school, into engineering and science undergraduate majors, and through graduate school to the PhD.  The Urban Institute has found that ANSEP students outperform national averages for all students at every education level.  ANSEP improves the quality of education while reducing costs.  There are 2,500 currently enrolled students.

Dr. Schroeder has been recognized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) with a 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), the 2005 Alaska Federation of Natives Denali Award, the greatest honor presented by the Federation to a non-Native, the 2009 National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Reginald H. Jones Distinguished Service Award (Founders Award) created to honor individuals whose efforts and accomplishments have resulted in increased underrepresented minority participation in the nation’s engineering workforce, and the 2018 University of Colorado Boulder, George Norlin Award which recognizes outstanding alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in their chosen field of endeavor and a devotion to the betterment of society and their community. 

ANSEP was recognized in 2018 as one of the Top 7 Finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award from the Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance, a  2013 Partners in Conservation Award, with the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Area Science Center for exemplary collaborations between Department of the Interior, its bureaus, and organizations across the country that take innovative approaches towards conservation of America’s public lands and resources, a 2014 U.S. Department of Energy Minorities in Energy Award and in 2014 as one of the Top 25 Innovations in American Government from the Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance.  ANSEP partner organizations have provided approximately $60 million in funding to support Dr. Schroeder’s work.  This includes support for the 13,000-square foot canoe shaped ANSEP Building that was opened in 2006 on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus to provide a focal point for ANSEP and in 2009 provided funds for the Dr. Herbert P. Schroeder Chair of ANSEP endowed chair.  

 

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