The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program
(ANSEP™) is a longitudinal model that works with students from the time they are in middle school all the way through to the PhD. ANSEP increases university recruitment and retention rates through hands-on middle and high school outreach initiatives, rigorous summer bridging programs, focused academic learning communities, organized student cohorts, networks of peer and professional mentors, community-based learning, professional internships and undergraduate and graduate research projects.