About
The Office of Faculty Success includes the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence, Instructional Design, the Center for Community Engaged Learning, and Faculty Services. We work together to support faculty in developing as instructors, designing their courses, incorporating community engagement in their work, and using learning technologies in face-to-face and online instruction.
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Department contact information
Instructional Design
Contact Instructional Design (ID) through emailing uaa_design@alaska.edu, booking an online appointment, or calling 907-786-6219.
The ID team can help you with:
- Blackboard Ultra
- Honorlock remote test proctoring
- Using learning technologies to meet course goals
- Meeting course accessibility requirements
- Course design
- Inclusive online teaching strategies
Contact IT if you are having Blackboard issues not related to Blackboard Ultra. IT takes care of many Blackboard issues, and their team will forward any calls that require assistance from an Instructional Designer to us.
Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence
Contact the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) by emailing uaa_cafe@alaska.edu or calling 907-786-4466. The CAFE team provides support for:
- Workshops schedules, registration, and access
- Faculty Learning Community schedules and registration
- General teaching questions
- Classroom management
- Sensitive course discussions
- Professional development resources
Center for Community Engagement & Learning
Contact the Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) by emailing uaa.ccel@alaska.edu or calling 907-786-4062. The CCEL team can help with:
- Community Engaged and Service Learning courses
- Community partnerships
- Community Engaged Student Assistants for community partnerships and research projects
- Professional development opportunities in Community Engaged Learning
Instructional Media Studio
Contact the Instructional Media Studio by booking an appointment online, emailing uaa_instructionalmedia@alaska.edu, or calling 907-786-4850. The Studio can help with:
- Recording and consulting on video and audio for your courses
- Kaltura (Blackboard My Media) support
- Faculty support with eWolf ePortfolio in courses
- Creating accessible course content
Faculty Services
Contact Faculty Services Director Marian Bruce-Paris by emailing mkbruce@alaska.edu or calling 907-786-1063. Faculty Services provides assistance with:
- Promotion, tenure, and faculty evaluation questions
- Course evaluations through Fall 2024 (from Spring 2025 on, contact your Dean or Director’s office)
- Faculty development and travel grants
- Sabbatical leave
Staff Directory
If there is a specific person on our team you are trying to contact, visit our staff directory.
Our office
You can also visit us in our office during work hours. We are closed on UAA holidays and whenever UAA has another type of closure (most often this would be for winter weather or UAA's hard closure). Check our Facebook page on heavy snow days or icy days to make sure we're open before coming!
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 213
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508-4914
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 907-786-4496