Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 360
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO students hired as Collaborative interns are matched with community organizations, Students are paid through the grant-funded program. Nonprofits coordinate meaningful work for interns to benefit the student experience in different ways. Students typically intern during the fall and spring semesters and may serve the same organization for more than one academic year. Each unique student that works as a Collaborative intern with this specific community partner is identified within this project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 24
Start Academic Year: 2022-23
UNO Student Hours: 312
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate students had the opportunity to engage in a service learning project encompassing interdisciplinary collaboration with Creighton occupational therapy (OT) students. UNO and Creighton students designed activities for participants on the autism spectrum to build upon various gross motor and speech skills during the Autism Society of Nebraska (ASN) Winter Festival. UNO graduate students applied knowledge gained through course content and presentations to this project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 21
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 105
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : This service learning project for speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate students supports emerging literacy and language development in preschool students from Hartman and Cody Elementary Schools. SLP students craft a 15-minute literacy activity that revolves around a children’s book; the activity incorporates lessons from class content. CDIS 8590.001
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 13
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 221
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : CMST 3130 students will learn about dining etiquette in class and from an external expert. CMST 3130 students will use their new skills to teach other UNO students at a large-scale event in MBSC about dining etiquette and business professions. CMST 3130 students will do short presentations on specific topics during this business etiquette luncheon. CMST 3130.860
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 36
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : This project is a yearlong project where UNO Young Scholars have partnered with fourth-grade students from Washington Elementary School. This project reinforces the goals of the Young Scholars to perform service in the community that coincides with their college experience while also allowing early college exposure to fourth grade students.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 30
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 300
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO Students enrolled in TED 2050: Intro to Teaching ESL classes will participate in a service learning project in collaboration with the Learning Community Center of South Omaha (LCC) for six weeks. UNO students will engage with LCC families weekly to explore topics of educational support, parent resources, and overall wellness to better support their children’s learning careers. UNO students will travel to the LCC for the first session. UNO students will host LCC families on UNO’s Dodge Campus and Scott Campus for tours, educational sessions and a final celebration. TED 2050.001
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 276
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus they chose for the informative speech. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to recieve the $1000 grant. CMST 1110.009
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 264
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus they chose for the informative speech. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to recieve the $1000 grant. CMST 1110.024
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 288
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus they chose for the informative speech. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to recieve the $1000 grant. CMST 1110.037
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 26
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 338
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students will work in groups (or independently) and partner with a local nonprofit organization to learn about their efforts to combat the effects of racism (i.e., redlining, mass incarceration, food deserts, inequitable public education, predatory lending, maternal mortality, and voter suppression) or any other “ism” covered in class. Students will research and inform fellow groups on the nonprofit organization’s history, significance, goals/mission statement, rationale, stakeholders and targeted groups, events, program activities, planned outcomes, clients, staffing, management plan, financial support/budget, and their personal experience volunteering at the organization. Each student is expected to volunteer at least five hours of community service to the selected organization from the list provided. Lastly, students will vote on which local nonprofit organization presented could most benefit from UNO’s $1,000 MPI course grant based on the course project findings. CRCJ 8120.001