physical education courses and an Outdoor Studies Program. The Outdoor Studies Program provides students with training and leadership in a variety of popular outdoor activities including backcountry skiing, ice and rock climbing, sea kayaking and mountaineering. UAS did have an intercollegiate sports program that was shut down along with Sheldon Jackson College and Alaska Pacific University in 1990.
In the 1980s, Clair Markey created an NAIA basketball program at the University of Alaska Southeast. He turned the men's team into one of the nation's highest scoring teams. In only the third year of the Whales basketball program, the team made it to the first round of post-season play-off action.
== Publications ==
The student news publication of UAS is Whalesong. Whalesong was founded in 1981 and has a circulation of 1,000. In 2023, Whalesong announced its switch from physical newspapers to a news podcast. The student literary magazine is Tidal Echoes. An academic journal titled Summit is published annually through …
