Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award 2023

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  Friday, March 24, 2023 by 5:00 p.m.

The Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award of $5,000 supports faculty to develop community-based research, creative activity, and course-based service-learning projects. The Award seeks to encourage, inspire, and reward faculty at UAA for engaged scholarship that creates and sustains our community partnerships. The purpose of the award is to recognize community engagement projects with significant discipline-based scholarship, community partnership, and creativity in project design and implementation. The proposed projects should ultimately aim to improve the quality of life for Alaska residents and develop civic leadership, democracy, and social justice on campus and in the community.

The first $2,500 of the award will be given to a UAA faculty member who submits the winning proposal for community-based research, creative activity, and/or academic service-learning that best fulfills the criteria outlined below. The second $2,500 will be awarded after successful completion of a project that develops or furthers a university-community partnership and has a positive impact in service to the campus and Alaskan communities.

Winners of the Selkregg Award are asked to participate in the making of a short video telling the story of the project to be shown at the annual Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) Community Engagement Forum. This year, the event will be held on April 21, 2023 @ 2:30pm. We ask that the selected recipient attend so we may officially announce the awardee. We also request that a summary report of the project be submitted to CCEL that will be shared with the Selkregg/Iden Family.

Qualifications: Recipient must be a faculty member of UAA, including adjunct, non-tenured and term faculty. Preference will be given to full-time faculty and applicants who have not previously received the Selkregg Award.

Application Process: Faculty are encouraged to propose projects that will be incorporated into undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, current or future research, and creative activity, with mutual benefit to campus and community. Proposals are limited to 6 double-spaced pages that respond to the following:

1. Which community partner organization and what identified need in the community will you be working with?  Please include a letter of support from the director of the organization.
2. What is your proposed research or creative activity and what, if any, course or student involvement do you plan to incorporate?
3. What is your theoretical framework and methodology for the project?
4. What is the scope and timeline of the proposed project?
5. What outcome or product do you anticipate, and what potential do you see for continued actions and community collaborations out of this project?
6. How do you plan to spend the $5,000 award?  Please include a rough budget.

Priority will be given to applications that:

• Develop community engagement projects with significant discipline-based scholarship, community partnership, and student leadership development
• Demonstrate creativity in both project design and implementation
• Respect the multiple perspectives and sources of knowledge in community
• Enhance civic participation, democracy, and social justice on campus and in the community
• Improve the quality of life for Alaska residents
• Include student leadership development

Please submit the proposal as an electronic document (preferred format-1 complete pdf) to the CCEL department email at uaa.ccel@alaska.edu.

Questions or requests for further information can be directed to Marsha Olson, CCEL Associate Director, at maschirack@alaska.edu.

Selection Process:  A committee will review all applications:

• Two members of the Selkregg-Iden family or their designee;
• The Director of the Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) or designee;
• The Director of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) or designee;
• The previous year’s faculty award winner

Whenever possible, an effort will be made to rotate the award amongst faculty from different colleges and schools within the university. Applicants are encouraged to re-submit proposals in the next year if their projects are not selected.