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• APRIL 27 Comunity Engagement Forum

  9th Annual Community Engagement Forum

  LIB 307 | 2:00 - 4:30 pm

  The Community Engagement Forum features awards to students and faculty and highlights of our community partnerships, including the presentation of the 2017 Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award and Dr. Alex Hills Engineering & Civic Engagement Award.

  A poster session reception will follow the awards program and provides an opportunity to speak with Community Engaged Student Assistants about their faculty-community partner projects. 
  
  Please RSVP by April 23

  RSVP ONLINE

  OR  RSVP by contacting CCEL

  786-4062 | uaa.ccel@alaska.edu
• Think Tank Series

  Think Tanks: Save the Dates!

  Thursday, Oct 12 11:30-12:45 LIB 307 How should we plan for action on climate change in Anchorage? with Municipality of Anchorage & The Alaska Center. First Lady of Anchorage Mara Kimmel presented about the upcoming Anchorage Climate Action Plan at the October 12, 2017 Think Tank. Dr. Kimmel provided her presentation slides to help increase our community's awareness on this important issue effecting us all. The session was co-hosted by Dr. Brian Cook, Theater Department & CCEL with the Municipality of Anchorage, and The Alaska Center.

  Thursday, November 9 1:00-2:15 LIB 307 How can we create strong, sustainable, and equitable food systems in Alaska? with Alaska Food Policy Council

  Thursday, January 25 11:30 - 12:45 LIB 307 What does a solution to homelessness in Anchorage look like?  with United Way

  Thursday, February 8 1:00-2:15 p.m. LIB 307 How can we support and celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity? Mr. Brandon Locke,  Director, World Language and Immersion Programs for the  Anchorage School District shared his presentation and insights on language diversity, learning, and preservation in our community.  The session was cohosted by Dr. Irasema Ortega, Dr. Hattie Harvey, and Dr. Kathryn Ohle from the UAA College of Education. 
  

  Thursday, March 8 11:30-12:15 LIB 307 Can we make public spaces in Anchorage safe and welcoming for everyone?

  Thursday, April 12 1:00-2:15 LIB 307 Fair Housing: Whose Responsibility is It?

The Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) serves as the intersection of student learning, faculty research and creative activity, and community engagement. CCEL connects academic programs with community needs to use scholarship and action for the mutual benefit of the University and the State, its communities, and its diverse peoples.

The Center is committed to fostering resilient communities through social, economic, and environmental justice in community-campus partnerships. Our work focuses on six core themes: Health & Well-Being; Positive Child & Youth Development;  Arts, Language & Culture; Food System;  Our Alaskan Environment;  and Access to Justice.

• Special Initiatives

  CCEL collaborates with several special initiatives and partnerships across campus.

  Alaskero Partnership is a workgroup of Filipino American UAA faculty and community members seeking to increase visibility, vitality, and sense of community among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (API), especially youth

  Campus Vote Project UAA strives to increase voter registration, education and turnout, with a special focus on college students.  The project began during the spring 2016 semester and has continued each semester since.

  Civic Eats Initiative is focused on developing, promoting, and recognizing Community-University partnerships in creating strong, sustainable, and equitable community food systems.

  Dialogues for Public Life program was created to facilitate and develop the capacity of the campus and local communities to discuss challenging social issues in a productive and meaningful way.

  Urban in Alaska is an exploration of Anchorage  as an urban area with urban issues in what is more typically considered a rural state. Urban issues in Anchorage are similar to other cities: poverty, homelessness, access to affordable housing, mental illness, substance abuse, sustainability.

  Resilient Communities Initiative Community resilience offers a useful lens for assessing and working with the needs of communities such as Anchorage. Viewing communities as complex and dynamic living systems allows for creative solutions to emerge, new solutions that may lie in understanding systemic relationships among community issues found in our city.  The Resilient Communities initiative proposes to invest $30,000 in 2018-19 to bring faculty, students, and community partners together to foster community resilience through partnerships in several thematic areas. 

• ENGAGE Social Issues

  Food Security, Youth & Education, Affordable Housing & Neighborhood Development, Health & Mental Health, Environment & Sustainability - Find out what's happening on campus and in the community around these social issues.

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• Civic Engagement Certificate

  UAA students can earn a Civic Engagement Certificate along with his or her major. This 30 credit Certificate prepares students to become active, effective, ethical citizens in their professional and personal lives.

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 Donate to CCEL and support civically engaged student and faculty projects at UAA!

Student Opportunities

• Summer 2018 Scholarships: $2000 Each

  Resilient Communities Project

  Summer 2018 Scholarhips: $2000 Each

  Community-Engaged Student Assistant Opportunities

  Resume & Coverletter DUE APRIL 27 by 5:00 pm

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• Summer 2018 CEL Courses

  CEL A390-501: Civic Eats: Engaging the Food System
  CRN: 51914 | Distance Delivered
  CEL A395-301: Civic Engaged Internship
  CRN: 50230 | Distance Delivered

  

• Fall 2018 CEL Courses
  Impact Your Campus & Your Community!

   

  CEL A292 - 602: Introduction to Civic Engagement

  CRN: 70679 I T I 5:30pm - 8:15pm I SSB 223

   

  CEL A292 - 603: Introduction to Civic Engagement

  CRN: 70680 I MW I 1:00 - 2:15 pm I ADMIN 143A
  

   

  CEL A292 - 801: Introduction to Civic Engagement

  CRN: 70681 I TR I 4:00pm - 5:15pm I Online

   

  CEL A390 - 301: Issues, Approaches & Ideologies in Community-Based ESL Tutoring

  CRN: 77430 | TR 10:00 - 11:15 am | Location TBA

   

  CEL A392 - 601: Learning by Giving

  CRN: 70682 I W I 4:00pm - 6:45pm I PSB 223

   

  CEL A395 - 801: Civic Engagement Internship

  CRN: 70683 I Contact Judith Owens-Manley at jowensmanley@alaska.edu
• CCEL Public Service Scholars

   The CCEL Public Service Scholars program is funded by partial scholarships from the University of Alaska system. This application certifies that you are prepared to devote 5-10 hours per week to supporting community engagement as a liaison between the UAA campus and community networks and coalitions in particular thematic areas (e.g. Food Systems, Our Alaskan Environment, Health & Well-Being, Positive Child & Youth Development, Arts, Language & Culture; Access to Justice).

  Activities that you may be involved with can include but not be limited to:

  • Community-based research through academic courses; supporting faculty-community engaged projects or research.  
  • Policy analysis or issue briefs on assigned issues.
  • Participation in Think Tanks and Urban in Alaska Conference during academic year.
  • Construction and maintenance of Social Media/Community Information Hubs for issue areas above.   

  APPLY!

Faculty Opportunities

• RFP: Early Bird: Fall 2018 Minigrants

   EARLY-BIRD CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

  2018 FACULTY MINIGRANTS

  The Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) announces a request for proposals for Fall 2018 Faculty Minigrants. Awards are open to full-time faculty in all UAA schools and colleges and at all campuses. Funded proposals will conduct community engaged research or plan and carry out community projects and involve UAA students whenever possible. These projects include engaged scholarship and professional partnerships with community organizations that incorporate the principles of reciprocity and respect for community knowledge with research or creative activity.

  Applications DUE APRIL 30th by 5:00 pm

  This year in particular we encourage applications from faculty who may be interested in using the Resilient Communities Workshop to further their projects. The workshop is designed for faculty and community partners working on community issues together to further their projects. It is scheduled for Wednesday, May 16, from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm, and will be part of the CCEL Faculty Intensive. Registration information will be available on the CCEL website soon!  

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• RFP: Community-Based Participatory Research Evaluation Project

  2018 Request for Letter of Interest

  Community-Based Participatory Research Evaluation Project

   

  The Center for Community Engagement & Learning is soliciting letters of interest for a formative evaluation of our Resilient Communities initiative with $4,000 allocated for the evaluation. The evaluation is intended to be a Community-Based Participatory Evaluation, and your letter of interest should include a broad-based brush stroke of how you think that can be best accomplished with the summaries of the projects at the end of this document. The Letters of Interest will be reviewed and one faculty member selected to work with faculty-student-community partner teams to complete an evaluation of the project.

   

  Letters of Inerest DUE APRIL 20th by 5:00 pm

   

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University of Alaska Anchorage
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Anchorage, AK 99508

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