The Center for Community Engagement & Learning Community Service Learning Advocate Program is available to all students, to support community-based learning and research.

The Center offers tuition waivers to UAA undergraduate and graduate students who play key roles supporting faculty in the development and delivery of community-based learning or research/creative activities at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Desired Outcomes for Community Service Learning Advocates:

1. To develop a greater understanding about community participation through service, particularly regarding issues of engaged learning, service, and community engagement.
2. To increase knowledge and awareness of community assets and how community assets link to disciplinary learning.
3. To increase personal awareness of motivations, passions, commitments and life goals as related to community service leadership, democracy, and social justice.
4. To increase knowledge of models of community engagement applied through disciplinary orientations.
5. To explore and deepen understandings of the impact of multiple identities (especially regarding age, race, ethnicity, class, gender, ability, sexual orientation, first language & religion) and multiple disciplines with particular emphasis on the neighborhoods bordering UAA and those with significant racial, ethnic, and economic diversity.
6. To develop the skills and knowledge necessary to be a leader in community-based learning and research (including designing activities based on community and disciplinary knowledge, facilitating reflection and project activities with students, leading community visits, coordinating student service learners, cultivating community partners, designing and implementing research).
7. To develop the skills to become effective community builders and advocates for disciplinary manifestations of community engagement skills (such as, communicating across differences, public speaking, giving and receiving feedback, active listening, team building, project planning and implementation, developing promotional plans, fundraising, group dynamics, and participatory research).