Application Process:
The proposed community-based projects must be of mutual benefit to the community and discipline. Faculty are encouraged to conceptualize how this project could be incorporated into undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, and related or future research and creative activity. Particular attention will be paid to applications which:
- Develop community engagement projects with significant discipline-based scholarship, community partnership and student leadership development;
- Demonstrate creativity in both project design and implementation;
- Demonstrably improve the quality of life for Alaska residents, including those with positive impact on:
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- Healthy Communities;
- Responsible Resource Development and Environmental Sustainability
- Racial and Ethnic Identities;
- Economic Diversity (with particular emphasis on the neighborhoods bordering UAA and those with significant racial, ethnic, and economic interactions);
- Applied Ethics within Organizations and Professions;
- Artistic Expressions within Communities;
- Alternative Transportation (such as, reducing traffic and pollution); and
- Child, Youth, and Family Empowerment.
- Bring multiple perspectives on community engagement recognizing how systemic forces bear on community issues;
- Develop their own and students’ leadership in ethical values, social justice and community engagement on campus and in the community;
- Provide learning opportunities for all three constituencies in community-based projects: faculty, community partners, and students; and
- Increase motivations, passions, commitments and life goals as related to moral and civic leadership, democracy, and social justice.
Proposals are limited to ten double-spaced pages in twelve-point font with inch margins that address the following: an identified participating community agency, an identified need in the community; tentative research or creative activity question; a theoretical framework and methodology; scope and timeline of the proposed project; anticipated outcome or product; potential continued actions and community collaborations; and a letter affirming commitment from community organization (not part of the ten-page narrative).
The deadline for applications will be announced during the Fall semester 2009.
Download Selkregg Award announcement in PDF format here.
Selection Process:
- A review committee will undertake a formal review process to ensure that every application is given a fair and thorough evaluation. The invited committee members will consist of:
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- Two members of the Selkregg-Iden family or their designee;
- Director of UAA’s Center for Community Engagement & Learning or designee;
- Director of UAA’s Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence or designee;
- The previous year’s faculty winner (in this first year a previous minigrant winner); and
- One community member whose organization has partnered with UAA in a community engagement/service-learning project.
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Whenever possible, an effort will be made to rotate the award amongst faculty from different colleges and schools on a yearly basis.
- Faculty are encouraged to submit proposals for the same project on a yearly basis if their project was not selected for the award.
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, the Award Committee, and invited campus and community members at the end of the twelve-month award period.
Correspondence regarding this program should be directed to:
Shauna Dunn, UAA Center for Community Engagement & Learning,
email engage@uaa.alaska.edu, tel 786-4062
