Social Work professor Tracey Burke named the 2011 Selkregg Community Engagement and Service Learning Award winner

Associate Professor of Social Work Tracey Burke is the winner of the 2011 Selkregg Community Engagement and Service Learning Award. The award will support a research study in partnership with the Food Bank of Alaska to explore the perspectives and experiences of food-insecure families.

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. Purposes of the award are to recognize community engagement projects with significant discipline-based scholarship, community partnership and student leadership development. The projects 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.

For more information about the Selkregg Award and other opportunities through the Center for Community Engagement and Learning, please visit our website.