ENGAGE Social Issues

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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 for the 2013-2014 academic year!

Position Responsibilities:
ENGAGE Liaisons serve approximately 10 hours per week, which includes: 2 hours of training and development, and 8 hours of community engagement support spread between the campus and organizations in the community.  Eligible students may receive a tuition award to support their development as leaders in community engagement.

The ENGAGE Student Liaison position offers student leaders the opportunity to create a lasting impact in the community through the development and implementation of curricular service-learning projects or community-based research. Liaisons will serve as resources and connectors for faculty, community agencies, and student volunteers implementing service projects. Liaisons conduct course or volunteer site visits and may act as “site supervisors” to monitor community partnerships.

In addition to carrying out and guiding service projects, Liaisons will promote the work being accomplished by all stakeholders involved in the projects. Resources, progress updates, and reflections will be shared over social media platforms including Facebook, blogs, and the CCEL website.

What issues do ENGAGE Liaisons address?  
We currently have students working within these social issue areas:

  • Youth & Education
  • Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Development
  • Health and Mental Health
  • Food Security
  • Environment & Sustainability

If you are interested in applying:

  1. Download the Student Liaison application.  
  2. Submit the completed application to the CCEL office in LIB 211G or engage@uaa.alaska.edu
  3. We will contact selected applicants to schedule an interview.  Applications are reviewed in the order they are received, so turn them in soon.

Thank you for your interest in becoming part of the ENGAGE Social Issues team!

ENGAGE Student Liaisons

 
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:

  • Youth & Education
  • Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Development
  • Health and Mental Health
  • Food Security
  • Environment & Sustainability

 

 ENGAGE Social Issues students at poster session  
The student liaisons identify 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."

 

 

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?

 

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.

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. To review her results, click here.

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

UAA Celebrated its 2nd Annual ENGAGE Week in October of 2012. Tackling topics such as Poverty, Hunger & Homelessness; Youth & Education; and Health & Mental Health, ENGAGE Week provides the platform for students to engage in service and conversations relating to the issues that affect our community.

More information about ENGAGE Week can be found here!

ENGAGE Conference:
This conference brings together students, faculty, and community members to constructively discuss relevant topics in Anchorage and focus on positive steps for our community in each area. The first ENGAGE Conference was held in March of 2012 and focused on four topics: Education, Health and Mental Health, Affordable Housing, and Food Security in Anchorage.