Barb Amarok hired as Northwest Campus director
Barb QasuGlana Amarok has accepted the position of director of the Northwest Campus,
in Nome, after an extensive recruitment effort. She will begin her new role Monday,
June 24.
For more than thirty years, Amarok has worked in the fields of adult education, cultural
education, elementary education, secondary education administration and university
education in Nome. While employed, she earned her master鈥檚 degree in educational leadership
through UAA and a doctoral degree in Indigenous education through UAF.
Amarok received the Alaska Federation of Natives Educator of the Year Award in 2015.
She has served on the Nome Public Schools Board of Education since 2010, where she
has been president for three years and vice president for one, and currently serves
on the Board of Directors for the Association of Alaska School Boards and on the advisory committees of five
UAF graduate students. She is also a member of the 澳门六合彩开奖appCollege of Education Advisory
Council, the Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience, and the Nome
Public Schools Equity Committee. In 2018, Amarok traveled to Nuuk, Greenland, and
contributed to the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Inuit Education Summit Outcomes document.
She has taught ED 420 (Alaska Native Education) to Bering Strait educators since 2011
and now also teaches ED 193 (Introduction to Teaching) for high school students in
the Bering Strait region.
She is the daughter of Mary Ann Amarok Tiffany (born and raised in Nome) and Warren I. Tiffany (stepfather). She attended her first year of school in Nome before her family moved for her stepfather鈥檚 career. She returned to Nome after earning her bachelor鈥檚 degree in elementary education.