...Jackson, 42, a 2002 University of Alaska Southeast graduate, was hired a month after graduation as an academic advisor and coordinator of the Native and Rural Student Center at UAS. "I'd like to pass on my life experience to the students so...

...It was fun. It's not a competition thing - I didn't see it that way." Kolene James, a UAS academic advisor and coordinator of the Native and Rural Student Center, said the oratory competition is a learning experience for the competitors...