text: This article reeks of a plea for more money and not what the school needs, a slimming down of the excess support staff, elimination of sports teams and NCAA influence draining resources from the education mission.
  
  Most people right now believe that there are better schools to go to outside Alaska, it's cost point was about the only selling point for the school. With the tuition increases that the students have suffered over the last ten years that advantage is going away and more students are going to head outside.
  
  Also the school needs to start treating it students for what they are, a customer buying a service from them. Most of the Admin only seem to treat them as a walking cashbox to draw from.