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Thank you to everyone who made UAA's first ENGAGE Week a success! UAA held it's first ENGAGE Week on the main campus Oct.
17-21, a week of brown bag lunches, service activities, and discussion panels focused on social issues of importance to
the Anchorage community. ENGAGE week was sponsored by CCEL and Student Life and Leadership, and each
day had a theme such as Poverty, Education, Health, Immigration, and
Environment. More than 400 students, faculty and staff participated in
ENGAGE Week events, culminating in two special events on Friday.
Community Partner Speed Dating was attended by approximately 50 community
agency representatives and faculty, spending 5 minutes together brainstorming
connections for community projects before moving on to the next partner and
following a breakfast and welcome by Louise Van Rhyn, a South African
consultant for building community. In the afternoon, Dean of Students
Dewain Lee hosted a luncheon for ENGAGE week students and participants in a new
student "Emerging Leaders" program that she initiated this
year. Community programs featured during Engage Week
included Homeward Bound; Project Puqigtut, an Alaska Native Education program;
The Alaska Immigration Justice Project; and Refugee and Immigrant Services
Program with Catholic Social Services. Faculty and staff participating in
presentations included Bradley Myrstol, Justice; Chantel Justice, Psychology;
Marie Lowe, ISER; E.J. David, Psychology; Gabriel Garcia, Health Sciences;
Nancy Nix, Health Sciences; Judith Owens-Manley, CCEL; Catherine Sullivan,
Nursing; Shauna Dunn, TRIO; David Weaver, Student Affairs. Student Clubs
hosted events: The Heifer Club, Social Work Coalition, Panhellenic
Council, American Medical Student Association, Sustainability Club. ENGAGE Week Oct 17-21 2011
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ENGAGE Week Oct 17-21
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