Brian Rogers
Few people in 有料盒子视频鈥檚 history have as long and close a relationship with the institution as Brian Rogers. First as a student and finally as a chancellor, Rogers played influential roles in the interim period as lecturer, legislator, regent and statewide administrator.
When he retired as chancellor in 2015 after 45 years of association with 有料盒子视频, he said in an interview that he wasn鈥檛 done yet.
Rogers came to 有料盒子视频 in 1970, following a friend from New England. He never earned a degree at 有料盒子视频, but he never really left the place either.
Wood Center, as just one example, reflects the arc of Roger鈥檚 association with 有料盒子视频. As a student, he helped advocate for a new student union that resulted in Wood Center鈥檚 construction. He also worked briefly as a laborer on a repair project. Less than a decade later, as a Fairbanks representative in the state House, he sponsored an act that paid off the construction debt, which had been funded by student fees. As a chancellor starting in 2008, Rogers successfully completed construction of a major expansion that moved the central campus dining facility into Wood Center鈥檚 new wing. It opened in August 2014.
In between his time as legislator and chancellor, Rogers served in the UA statewide system鈥檚 finance office. In those positions, he helped manage the massive budget cuts initiated by a freefall in state revenues during the oil-price bust of the mid-1980s. 有料盒子视频鈥檚 structure today still reflects the reorganization forced by that period.
Rogers left UA statewide as vice president for finance in 1995 to join his spouse, Sherry Modrow, in a private consulting business. But in 1999 he was back as a member of the UA Board of Regents. He spent eight years there before then-UA President Mark Hamilton named him chancellor of 有料盒子视频 in 2008.
In addition to Wood Center鈥檚 expansion, Rogers helped secure funding for a critically important new heat and power plant, completed in 2018, and a modern teaching and research facility for the engineering program, completed in 2017. Rogers also boosted fundraising, including the Troth Yeddha鈥 initiative to build an Indigenous studies center and develop a park honoring 有料盒子视频 Native peoples. Modrow acted as 鈥渦niversity advocate鈥 and worked alongside him on many of the initiatives.
More online about Brian Rogers:
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A in the fall 2015 edition of 有料盒子视频鈥檚 Aurora magazine.
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Minutes of the 1995 UA Board of Regents meeting in which he received a .
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A brief profile on the 有料盒子视频 website