Ray Barnhardt talks about the reorganization of what was the School of Education and the Department of Psychology and Sociology into a new college - Human and Rural Development, focusing on cross-cultural and rural emphasis to address some of the issues and problems that exist unique to the state of Alaska, creation of a policy advisory council for each of the three departments they have created, the Education Department, Human Services, and Rural Development. the councils providing input and oversight by persons from outside the university community who are involved in the professional and applied fields that those departments will be addressing, cross-cultural education, preparing teachers to work in an environment such as Fairbanks as well as out in the rural communities, the new cultural emphasis also for social workers, internal evaluation of the programs and how they are meeting the identified needs of the state, reviewing all of their current programs and curricula and determining where to place their emphasis with the resources they have, and a shifting of emphasis to the point where there may be some existing offered degrees that will be phased out and new programs phased in.