I'm not sure what your son wants to major in, but if it's at all relating to wildlife management, wildlife biology or geophysics, I highly recommend University of Alaska-Fairbanks...my post-grad studies alma mater...they have excellent undergrad and graduate programs in the above endeavors...and have the logistics advantage of being in-state.
Skiing?? Well, lol, on the UAF campus you just have to shift emphasis from downhill to cross-country. There is, of course, some decent BC in the Nenana area foothills, but it's nothing huge. Good quality BC is a haul from Fairbanks. Ski-jorring on the big parking lots near the athletic center is an illegal but fun and worthy blast, though! 
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"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it; a jealous, possesive love that grabs at what it can." by Yann Martel from Life of Pi
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