Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 150
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 160
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Leadership and Mentoring, Gerontology
Description : Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn with the senior programming at Adam's Park. Blackburn students along with UNO students will creat a weekly meal for the seniors at AP.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 40
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 80
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 34
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 68
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Employment and Workforce, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring
Description : TLC will work with North Star Foundation's high school students on professionalism, resumes, and other career skills. Participants will get to know one another through google hang outs, writing back and forth through Google Docs by answering questions prepared by TLC students. Students will celebrate their work together with select students sharing their resumes at a final celebration at MCC
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 24
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 984
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 200
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Poverty, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Social Justice Awareness
Description : Students from Dr. Germaine Huber's Multicultural Education Course are partnered with Mr. Craig Wiles' 5th Grade Students from Crestridge Elementary to discuss the impact of redlining in the Omaha community. Both student groups are working alongisde Robbie Summers with Inclusive Communities to create a final poster presentation based upon 8 different components of redlining.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Leadership and Mentoring
Description : This project was canceled due to COVID-19. Students from UNO’s ROTC Arnold Society (an Air Force Service Society) was planning to work on providing exposure to the UNO ROTC program to MSHS JROTC upper class students. JROTC students would have come to campus, and be provided with an overview of the ROTC program, tours of campus and the chance to participate in ROTC-led leadership activities. At Together, MSHS JROTC would have participated and assisted in servicing a regular food pantry for the public and removing their garden for relocation.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Income and Income Equality, Poverty, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Raise Awareness
Description : This project will bring awareness regarding SNAP benefits through potentially eight podcast conversations concerning community participants, outreach logistics, SNAP state legislation, SNAP efficacy, SNAP and seniors, SNAP and citizens returning from corrections, SNAP and food pantries, and SNAP and retailers. A tour of Together; a session in which we go over what is SNAP and why is it the biggest issue in the fight on hunger; and then the what why and how about the podcasts. The students need to research the topic areas and prepare for discussions with SNAP guests that will make for a good podcast. Students engage in recorded interviews with community participants and experts on a variety of topics.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 180
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 30
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Gerontology
Description : Due to the transition to remote learning this project was canceled. Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn with the senior programming at Adam's Park. Blackburn students along with UNO students will creatw a weekly meal for the seniors at AP.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 17
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 15
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Self-Sufficiency, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Capacity Building
Description : UNO instructor Dr. Amy Rodie’s Business Ethics course worked alongside Boys Town Day School students to create ethical-scenario-based skits to perform to middle school students at Boys Town. The student groups worked together over the course of five meetings to write the script for the scenarios and create discussion questions for the performance at the end of the project. P-16 Project
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 23
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Employment and Workforce
Description : User interface design and development students work with multiple community partners.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Employment and Workforce
Description : IT for development students work with a variety of local businesses.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Principles of PR students worked with a variety of different local businesses and non-profits.