About
The Office of Faculty Success includes Instructional Design, the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE), the Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL), and Faculty Services. We work together to support faculty in developing as instructors, designing their courses, incorporating community engagement in their work, using learning technologies in face-to-face and online instruction, assisting faculty with promotion & tenure, and more.
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Department contact information
Instructional Design
Contact Instructional Design (ID) through emailing uaa_design@alaska.edu, , or calling 907-786-6219. ID can help you with:
- Blackboard Ultra
- Course design
- Honorlock remote test proctoring
- Using learning technologies to meet course goals
- Meeting course accessibility requirements
- Effective online teaching strategies, meeting regular and substantive interaction (RSI) requirements
Contact IT if you have Blackboard issues not related to course setup, such as login issues or not seeing your course list.
Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence
Contact the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) by emailing uaa_cafe@alaska.edu or calling 907-786-4466. CAFE provides support for:
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- New Faculty Orientation (Fall) and Adjunct Faculty Orientation (Fall/Spring)
- Teaching Academies (Fall/Winter)
- Headwaters (Fall) and Confluence (Spring)
- Peer-to-peer program schedules, registration, and access
- CAFE Faculty Fellow Program
- Faculty Excellence Awards (COW Awards, UA President’s Adjunct Faculty Award)
- Professional development resources for teaching, learning, and more
Center for Community Engagement & Learning
Contact the Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) by emailing uaa.ccel@alaska.edu or calling 907-786-4062. CCEL can help with:
- Community Engaged and Service Learning courses
- Community partnerships
- Community Engaged Student Assistants for community partnerships and research projects
- Professional development opportunities and mini-grants in Community Engaged Learning
- Selkregg Award
Instructional Media Studio
Contact the Instructional Media Studio by , 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 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
Come visit us in our office during work hours! Many of our staff work hybrid schedules, so if you’d like to speak with someone specific, please check with them before stopping by. We are closed on , the , and whenever UAA has another type of closure (most often this would be weather closures during the winter). Check our 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