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These short examples help demonstrate how UArctic formulates its mandate
and obligation to serve the indigenous communities through its operations.
We are glad that UArctic education is circumpolar, holistic, and diverse in
nature, and draws on our combined members’ strengths to address the unique
challenges of the region.
What do we mean by circumpolar UArctic promotes a northern voice in the
globalizing world that reflects a shared regional identity across all eight Arctic
states and among all Northern peoples and cultures.
What do we mean by holistic UArctic promotes understanding among
different learning systems, bringing together perspectives from the arts and
both social and natural sciences with traditional and indigenous knowledge.
What do we mean by diverse UArctic promotes cultural diversity, language
plurality, and gender equality
UArctic Governing Bodies
The University of the Arctic has the following governing bodies.
The Board of Governors is the highest decision making body of UArctic
responsible for strategic development, institutional priorities and finances. It
consists of an internationally representative Board elected by the Council.
The nomination and election process is based on overall UArctic policy to
represent diversity and this secures the blend of representativity that covers
also the indigenous populations of the Arctic.
The UArctic Council consists of representatives from all UArctic members
(over 130). It decides on membership of UArctic and nominates members of
the Board, makes strategic decisions on UArctic’ programme development and
gives academic guidance for programme implementation and delivery.
The council meets once a year to run a business schedule combined with breakout
sessions focusing on themes of importance for the development of the
network. The council also elects members to an Indigenous Issues Committee
among its members. The committee oversees that UArctic practices the
visions, strategy and goals of indigenous involvement in programmes and other
activities. This particular committee is connected directly to the Vice-president
Indigenous of the network, who acts as the secretary of the committee and is
the link between the UArctic leadership and the committee.
University of the Arctic also has a forum for the leadership of the academic
member institutions. The UArctic Rectors’ Forum, held once a year, brings
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