Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Raise Awareness, Art
Description : The gallery will feature nationally-curated art meant for more senses than sight, tactile interpretations of classic art, and artwork created at four art workshops for the visually impaired, which were held at UNO over the summer. The name of the exhibit says it all: this art is meant to be touched. The art workshops were made possible with assistance from the Nebraska Arts Council, WhyArts?, Omaha Association of the Blind, Outlook Nebraska, Pamela Duncan (interpreter), and volunteer student interpreters from UNO.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : None
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
18
Topics:
Refugees, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : The UNO School of Public Administration invites you to the 2nd public forum on the NGO/Nonprofit Response to the Refugee Crisis. The Panel of Experts Includes: Amelia Rosser, Former Interim Assistant Director of Refugee Empowerment Center; Current MPA Student; Dekow Sagar, Program Coordinator; International Center of the Heartland, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc. Veronica Hill, Program Coordinator and ESL/Migrant Teacher Trainer Yates Educational Community Partnership (ECP), Omaha Public Schools. Facilitated by: Dr. Hans Louis-Charles, Assistant Professor Emergency Services Program, School of Public Administration. ADDITIONAL PARTNERS: Listed above
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
40
Topics:
Develop./Physical Disability
Description : Join choreographer Donald Byrd and Spectrum Dance Theater members for a lecture and demonstration of the groundbreaking performance, A Rap on Race. In 1970, black author James Baldwin and white anthropologist Margaret Mead sat together and recorded a conversation on one of the defining subjects of the American experience – race. Together, Byrd and playwright Anna Deavere Smith have reimagined this monumental talk into an innovative production featuring the renowned dancers of Spectrum Dance Theater.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Gender Equality
Description : Have you ever wanted to become engaged in the policymaking process but are unsure how to dive in? This Omaha Table Talk invites people from all communities a space to take part in an open and honest dialogue about how to engage in the policy process as an advocate, policymaker, lobbyist, or volunteer. Attendees will hear from panelists about the ways they can be a part of the policymaking process in Nebraska, and will then have a chance to break into small groups to talk to leaders about how to connect to organizations and get involved. Panelists: Senator Sara Howard, Nebraska Legislature; Jo Giles, Coalition for a Strong Nebraska; Rebecca Langle, League of Women Voters; Molly McCleery, Nebraska Appleseed. Moderator: Danielle Powell, Inclusive Communities
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
8
Topics:
Capacity Building, Organ and Blood Donation
Description : Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the United States. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) recently published a 2017 report called "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans," which explores the question of how student debt became a women’s issue. This event will take a closer look at how student debt can affect women, particularly women of color, following graduation as they enter the workforce. AAUW helps shed light on intersected issues including the gender wage gap and provides a foundation of research and resources to our communities as we ask what can be done about student debt.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
300
Topics:
Description : Join the UNO Service Learning Academy (SLA) as they commemorate International Women’s Day, forging positive visibility and empowering women in our community with knowledge. This event includes a keynote speech by Dr. Deborah Turner, a workshop that addresses sexual misconduct in the workplace, community village booths, a health fair, food, performances, and awards to local women making change in their community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
441
Topics:
Capacity Building, Organ and Blood Donation
Description : This educational forum brings together scholars, students, and community members to engage in meaningful dialogue on how, when, and why governments and ordinary people supported, complied with, ignored, or resisted targeted oppression and racial violence in different historical contexts. By exploring emerging research on the representation of historical persecution and violence, this educational forum seeks to examine the lasting impact of racism for communities in different historical contexts. This program is part of a wider outreach initiative to bring Holocaust studies into conversation with ethnic studies in the North American academy. This program is co-organized by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy in conjunction with the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
34
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare, Capacity Building
Description : Jim Lynch, Ph.D., will be on campus Friday, April 6 to present his latest research in victimization. His talk, entitled "Victimization Research and Data: If You Build It Will They Come?" will take place in Rooms 230/231 in the CEC building. It will start at 10:30 A.M. and run until noon. This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Lynch is a professor and former chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the department, he served as the director of the Bureay of Justice Statistics in the United States Department of Justice. His research focuses on victim surveys, victimization risk, the role of coercion in social control, and crime statistics.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
27
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Develop./Physical Disability
Description : April's Mayor's Commission for Citizens with Disabilities (MCCD) meeting will be co-hosted by University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) NSSLHA/Collegiate Sertoma (National Student Speech Language Hearing Association). Both the members of the MCCD and the students from UNO NSSLHA/Collegiate Sertoma will present. In recognition of Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month, members of UNO NSSLHA/Collegiate Sertoma will share their year round work with the Autism Society of Nebraska.