This site is a stage, a collaborative space, a classroom,
a laboratory, a studio.

We wish to express our enthusiasm for community engagement, its connections with knowledge, curiosity, inquiry, action and reflection. Our emphasis is on learning and community engagement, the kind that makes a difference.

The UAA Center for Community Engagement and Learning reflects the spirit of discovery and it expresses the humanity of our students, faculty, university, and community

Attention All Undergraduate Degree-Seeking Engineering Students! The UAA School of Engineering and the Center for Community Engagement are pleased to announce the 2008 Alex Hills Engineering and Civic Engagement Award. This $2500 award gives UAA Engineering students the opportunity to initiate a service project that solves engineering and technology-based problems in partnership with local or international organizations. Deadline for applications April 25th, 2008. Get the application, cover sheet and a list of potential project ideas here.

 For more information call Kim at 907-786-4087 or e-mail engage@uaa.alaska.edu

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 Want to know more about the programs we offer? Are you interested in civic engagement or community based research? Curious about service learning or wondering how to incorporate it into your class or your major?

  Drop by and see us! We're located in the Administration Building Room 148. 

  If you are a community organization interested in partnering with students or faculty at UAA, please give us a call at 786.4087.

Congratulations to this year's Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award Winner!


Kathi Trawver, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, is the 2008 winner of the Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award. Professor Trawver will be working on Project Homeless Connect; a recently developed national model that utilizes a cross-community collaboration to provide one-day, one-stop events designed to provide direct access to housing, services and hospitality in a one-stop model to individuals, families, and children experiencing homelessness.

Kathi has been involved with the Anchorage Project Homeless Connect since Fall of 2007. Since the first event, which took place in August 2007, the February event more than doubled the participants than the first time around. Kathi and her students have worked with the Anchorage Coalition on Homelessness, local community social service providers and the Mayor’s office to help plan the event as well as offering services to individuals during the event and gathering data. Using the data they will be able to write up findings and make recommendations to further the effectiveness of future Project Homeless events in Anchorage.

Through her work Kathi will continue building partnerships between the UAA School of Social Work and the greater Anchorage Community. Students will gain hands-on experience in data collection, analysis and reporting while becoming engaged community members.

The Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award supports faculty to develop community-based, applied research and course-based service-learning projects. The Award seeks to encourage, reward and inspire faculty at UAA to creatively engage their students in learning and research that equally benefits the students and the community at large. The winning faculty member, their community partners, and student participants will make a public presentation on the implementation and impact of their project to the Selkregg-Iden family, Award Committee, and invited community members.