text: UA is ensuring its own weakness and irrelevance to students and selected out faculty. Future planning should be focused on real time needs of the State of Alaska; of UA students and systems rather than one selecting sustained deterioration. 
  
  Start with senior UA management/administrative then look at individual University management...how much of that could be cut way back? How much money could be permanently saved with increased efficiency and lower administrative overhead? 
  
  Weakening - rather than building - programs key to the state; cutting athletic teams which help draw still more students and together should be part of aggressive student recruitment in Alaska and across the Lower 48 is remarkably ill conceived and counterproductive for Alaska and the UA system.