2026 Selkregg Award applications due March 20

The Selkregg Community Engagement and 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.

Winners of the Selkregg Award are asked to share about their project at the annual Center for Community Engagement and Learning (CCEL) Community Engagement Forum. This year, the event will be held on April 24, 2026 at 2 p.m. The CCEL co-directors ask 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

Proposals should be submitted on InfoReady. The application deadline is Friday, March 20, 2026 by 5 p.m.

Questions or requests for further information can be directed to the CCEL Co-Directors at [email protected].

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