I'm a former UA faculty member. The folks I came in with were young, optimistic and hoping for a challenge and long careers educating the citizens of Alaska. But the UA has zero interest in this. Morale among is incredibly low. No one even bothers to even measure educational or research outcomes. From deans to VPs to provosts, the university is backwards, self-defeating, and protects awful faculty who are dead wood and completely tuned out. Or it hires cheap, unqualified part-timers. When I decided to leave because UAF was constantly making cuts and killing my research, UAF wasn't even upset, although I was more accomplished than faculty twice my age. When I told the dean, he said, 'Some folks just can't handle Alaska.' Stunned I told him I loved Alaska but the UNIVERSITY was terrible. He just smiled as if he knew better. Almost every faculty member  under 40 y/o was leaving or planning to leave. The remaining faculty, with some exceptions, is embarrassingly geriatric or rank amateurs.