2025 UAF LEGACY LECTURE
Honoring Distinguished Alumni
An Evening with Tim Doran
Monday, June 2, 2025 at 7pm
BP Design Theater (401 Usibelli Engineering Building)
Reception to follow.
Lecture will be livestreamed at uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php
Tim Doran graduated from UAF with a Master of Arts in Teaching in 1984 and, in 1990, an Education Specialist Certificate. Throughout his life and career, he has worn many hats. Upon graduating from Le Moyne University, Tim became the Executive Director of Project Equity Northwest, developing relationships among churches, businesses, and minority group agencies. Next, he served as the Executive Director of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Portland, Oregon, and under those auspices, came to Alaska and spent the next two years in Kaltag. In the late ’70s, he was a program developer for the Diocese of Fairbanks. He spent the early ’80s as the administrator/superintendent for St. Mary’s Catholic High School in St. Mary’s. The Bering Strait School District was his next stop. He was a teacher in St Michael and a principal in Teller and Unalakleet.
In 1990, Tim arrived in Fairbanks, where he continues to make his mark on this community. He worked at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a graduate faculty instructor in the Educational Leadership Program. From 1992-2014, Tim was the Principal of Denali Elementary School, where in addition to being responsible for 400 students and a staff of 51, he promoted and supported initiatives that included the Denali Science Camp, the Athabascan Fiddles-in Residence, and the Denali Literacy Academy. In 1998, he was named the Alaska Distinguished Principal by the Alaska Association of Elementary School Principals. For the 2002/2003 school year, he was selected as the Elementary Principal of the Year by the Fairbanks Principals Association, and in 2011, the National Association of Elementary School Principals honored him as a National Distinguished Principal. Following retirement, Tim joined the Peace Corps, serving in Palau. He has volunteered with the University of Alaska Museum of the North as a docent for ten years, and he has been a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board since 2017, serving three consecutive terms.
To quote Fairbanks journalist Dermot Cole, Doran is one of the best Fairbanks school board members of all time, an even-tempered leader with experience, knowledge, and good judgment. He is a retired principal who has spent his career doing all he can to improve education. He is one of those rare individuals who knows how to get people of different points of view to work together.
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