What a travesty.  
No wind and sun in Fairbanks to help power the university, I guess, so gotta default to the biggest air polluter - coal.  So 18th century but modern enough for Alaska's "premiere" university on climate sciences. It makes as much sense as having the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences located in the Interior and paying a huge budget every year to get staff/students to the Fish and Oceans they are studying.
  UAF = hypocrisy and waste