ENGAGE Social Issues

ENGAGE Social Issues
ENGAGE Social Issues

Now Recruiting ENGAGE Student Liaisons!

UAA's Center for Community Engagement and Learning is looking for active student leaders to join our ENGAGE Social Issues Team spring semester! [Application available here.]

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Come join our current ENGAGE Liaisons!

Position Responsibilities:
ENGAGE Student Liaisons work approximately 10 hours per week, 2 of which are training and development hours in a weekly meeting with our Center.  The rest of your time is spent with students, faculty, and in the community, bringing people and networks together to address the issues affecting our community. Activities range from investigating opportunities for campus-community partnerships, to assisting with the coordination of semester-long service learning projects. 

Position Benefits:
As compensation for their commitment, Liaisons receive a tuition waiver for 6 academic credits – 3 earned at the beginning of the semester and 3 at the end of the semester when they have satisfactorily completed their work. 

What issues do ENGAGE Liaisons address? 
We have students working within the issue areas listed below. Issue areas for which we are recruiting additional students are indicated with (OPEN).

  • Arts & Culture
  • Community & Economic   Development
  • Education &   Transition to Young Adulthood (OPEN)
  • Education & Youth   Development (OPEN)
  • Environment &   Sustainability
  • Food Security and   Affordable Housing
  • Health & Mental   Health
  • Immigrants &   Refugees
  • Safe Families and Safe   Communities (Addressing Domestic Violence) (OPEN)

If you are interested in applying:
Please review and complete the application found here.Questions and completed applications can be submitted to Kris Katkus at kkatkus@uaa.alaska.edu.

The Initial Deadline has passed; however, we will continue to accept applications on a case-by-case basis until all positions are filled.

 
What is ENGAGE Social Issues?

The ENGAGE Social Issues Project is a team of student liaisons who are connecting faculty, UAA students and community partners in social issue areas to address complex community problems.  The issue areas are:

ENGAGE Social Issues students at poster session  

The student liaisons identify existing projects, partnerships and academic courses, and connect stakeholders through the use of social media.  Social Issue areas provide opportunities for information sharing, resource development, discussion forums, and telling the stories of our campus-community partnerships.

Rachel Wintz  
About the project, student liaison Rachel Wintz says, "This experience was invaluable. I improved my interview skills, research efficiency, learned how to network and communicate in the university setting, and I saw how a project could evolve with the help of a few people who want to share their passion and help others become engaged citizens."

Joy Britt, a UAA graduate student in Public Health, coordinated the e-Citizenship project in its first year, identifying a number of social media uses for the project.  e-C Survey Results Year 1.

ENGAGE Social Issues and ADP's eCitizenship Initiative
 
ADP e-C Facebook
e-Citizenship wiki
ENGAGE Facebook

Social citizens are a new breed of activists changing the world with their ideas, technology, and passion. Are you a Social Citizen? Find out here!


 
10 Steps to Being a Social Citizen – get engaged today! 

eCitizenship is a three-year initiative of the American Democracy Project and a partnership of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University.  The main goals of e-Citizenship are to engage students in using social networks and technology tools for civic purposes and to prepare students for lives of engagement and participation.

Annual Events
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ENGAGE Week: A Week-long Series of Campus and Community Events

UAA Celebrated its first ENGAGE Week in October of 2011. Tackling topics such as Poverty, Hunger & Homelessness; Education; and Health & Mental Health, ENGAGE Week provided the platform for students to engage in service and conversations relating to the issues that affect our community.

More information regarding 2011's ENGAGE Week can be found here!