ANCHORAGE — The chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage has announced that she plans to take a new position as the president of a California university.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Cathy Sandeen said Thursday she accepted an offer to become president of California State University, East Bay.<\/p>\n
Sandeen was appointed to the top position at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2018. The university said her last day will be Jan. 3.<\/p>\n
She took over before a magnitude 7.1 earthquake damaged the Anchorage campus and as the University of Alaska system began to deal with a steeply declining budget leading to numerous program cuts.<\/p>\n
The university recently announced plans to eliminate the hockey team and other sports unless it can raise enough money to cover operating expenses.<\/p>\n
Sandeen will replace Leroy Morishita, the retiring president of California State University’s East Bay campus in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward.<\/p>\n
Sandeen said in an email Thursday to students and employees that she was leaving to be closer to family in California at “another public, open-access, urban-metropolitan university very similar to UAA.”<\/p>\n
“We have accomplished much together and I am proud of how we withstood so many challenges — from earthquakes and financial exigency to program reviews and now a global pandemic,” Sandeen wrote. “UAA is a stronger and more stable university based on the ingenuity and collaboration of all members of our community.”<\/p>\n
An interim chancellor will be appointed in the next few weeks by Pat Pitney, interim president of the University of Alaska system.<\/p>\n
Sandeen’s decision to leave marks the third high-level departure from Alaska’s university system this year.<\/p>\n
Jim Johnsen resigned as system president in June following criticism resulting from interviews for a post in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Rick Caulfield, the head of the University of Alaska Southeast, retired this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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