Community Opportunities

COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES

Welcome, community partners, and to anyone interested in what UAA is doing in the community.  

We invite you to engage with us and to find ways to connect with faculty and students to meet your needs in the community. 

  • Browse through our website for ideas and information about our faculty, academic courses and current projects.

Please continue to visit our ENGAGE Social Issues website and other websites across the university, as we are large and diverse and our many Colleges and Centers connect with the community in myriad ways for research and service.

 

Campus - Community Connections

 
 
Do you know....?

Summer session is wrapping up, and Fall semester is almost here...

Summer classes - 10 week May 16 - July 30
Fall Classes Start
 August 29
Fall Finals
 December 12-17

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About upcoming special events and students in the community this summer?

Project Homeless Connect

Project Homeless Connect is July 19.  UAA students from the Social Work Coalition volunteer at this one day event connecting those facing homelessness to a broad range of services.


Summer Community-Engaged Courses: Students in the Community

Several academic courses this summer will have students working in the community for service-learning or community-based research with early education, youth transitioning from foster care to independent living, poverty and hunger and the environment.

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That students can earn a Civic Engagement Certificate that involves them as active citizens? 


Our students are introduced to Civic Engagement and are then involved in internships that place them in a variety of not-for profit or governmental agencies.  This semester students worked in environmental agencies, as all seven students are Environment & Society majors.

 Students in CEL 395 - Civic Engagement Internship

 

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UAA faculty are engaged in community projects and partnerships through research or service.

Professor Mark Carper engaged in teaching environmental sustainability.

Mark Carper, Assistant Professor, Geography/Environment & Society

Dr. Mark Carper  was funded by the Center last spring to begin a study of food security.  This year, Carper and a team of students headed by Kyla Byers and Aleks Pfaffe have finalized a survey regarding access to food and fresh food and are currently distributing it around Anchorage.  Read more

For more information about this project, contact us.

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Anchorage's Promise offers a Service-learning Academy designed for teachers, youth leaders and community members who work with middle and high school aged youth in schools, community-based organizations, and/or groups serving youth with special needs.  The courses are interactive and include team building and reflection activities.  For more information, http://anchoragespromise.org/