The Seward gateway., 1922-01-21
DEAN 0F ALASKA
 UNIVERSITY
 SEEKS FACULTY

Charles E. EuNnel, dean of the fac ulty and President of the Alaska Az ricultural College and School of Mines i5 in Seattle seeking members for the faculty for the Alaska College which will be opened at Fairbanks next Sep tember.
 The new institution will be support ed mainly by the Territory but $50,- O00.00 of Federal money will be avail able annually under the provisions of the Nelson Act. Preliminary build ing work has been done with funds appropriated by the Territorial legis- lature. The administration building was recently completed.
 Four courses of regular college work will be offered the first year, These will be an agricultural course, a general science course, a home eco monies course and a mining course, In addition to these regular courses there will be short course in mining lasting about sixteen weeks of each year This course will probably begin in November of this year and will eX- tend over a period of two years. The course will be designed for the prac tical requirements of the prospector. It will include geology, mineralogy, blowpipe analysis, etc. The require ments for entrance to the regular courses, aside from the special min ing course, will be thNse required for matriculation in any college The col lege will employ teaching staff of about five instructors besides Presi- dent Bunnell
 The college campus is about four miles from Fairbanks on tract of land set aside by congress in 1915. It is on the mainline of the government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. The Territorial legislature established the college in 1917 and granted it charter empowering the governor to appoint trustees. At that session sixty thousand was appropriated to build and buy equipment, but the sum prov ed inadequate. In 1921 an additional appropriation of s41 900 was made.
 The trustees of the institution are A. J. Nordale, J. A. Mcintosh, Mrs. ,,+h Don I, J. Rickert, Morton E. Stevens, Robert Bloom, and Robert Lavery all of Fair banks, Alaska.
 Charles E. Bunnell, president of the new University, is a pioneer in the Territory. He first tame to 4 s.sk. in 1902 as government teaca-r to1 the Indian sCIool at Wood I5laE1. MT Bunnell jIter removed to V.NceZ and Was principal o1 the Valdez St huol for some t!lDe when he entera3 !he 'sw firm of Smith & Bunnell In 1914 he was democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress and in 1915 was appoint ed District Judge of the Fourth divi- sion which position he held until re- signing to accept the presidency of the Alaska college. President Bunnell is a graduate of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and received the degree of Master of Arts of that institution in 1902.
 The Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines is bound to play an important part in the development of Alaska. It will fill the need of an in stitution of higher learning in the Ter .. ritory. The part it will play in the building of this northern state will be the training of men and women to meet and better solve the problems of this northern life. Alaska is chang ing from the Alaska of the olden days. People are not coming here now to make a stake and get back to Gods country they are now coming here to make their homes. They are raising families here and their children must be educated An institution of this kind in the Territory will better fit them for their future life here and make them better citizens of Alaska than the colleges in the States.