Community Engagement and Service Learning Awards

Andre Rosay, Assistant Professor of the Justice Center, is the 2007 winner of the Selkregg Community Engagement and Service Learning Award. Dr. Andre Rosay will be working on the Alaska Mentoring Initiative; a formal partnership between UAA, McLaughlin and Big Brothers Big Sisters to provide an array of structured mentoring activities to support the successful reentry of youth transitioning from MYC to their home communities. The AMI program will recruit, screen, train and supervise mentors who will be recruited from the UAA undergraduate population. Goals of the project are to develop an innovative and sustainable mentoring program that will empower institutionalized youth by supporting their transition back to their home community while reducing recidivism. In addition, the project will provide opportunities for UAA students to become engaged by fulfilling an important need in the community. For more information call (907) 786.1827 or email afabr@uaa.alaska.edu

The Selkregg Community Engagement and Service Learning award supports faculty to develop projects supporting community based research and creative activity or course based service learning. The purpose of this award is to recognize faculty conducting community-engaging projects with significant discipline based scholarship community partnerships and student leadership development. Recipients must be faculty members of UAA. The award for $5,000 is given annually, for more information please contact the Center for Community Engagement and Learning at (907) 786.4062 or email engage@uaa.alaska.edu.