Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 225
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 152
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : UNO Political Science students worked with Northwest High Magnet School students to build facilitation skills through planning a sustained dialogue event with the Anti-Defamation League. The students worked with small groups throughout the semester to simulate a conversation around how to make Omaha a more welcoming place. The UNO and Northwest students hosted area high school students on UNO's campus to hold a sustained dialogue event where they discussed problems facing Omaha and created action items of how they can be a part of finding solutions to those problems.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 16
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
4
Topics:
Youth Programming
Description : Sorted, organized and shelved donations
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 44
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
3
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Capacity Building
Description : Stocked food and clothes, cleaned distribution center
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
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:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building, Art
Description : For this project Adrian Duran served as a panelist for Latinxs in Art. This was a collaboration between UNO-OLLAS and The Union for Contemporary Art.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 7
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 38
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
3
Topics:
Music/Dance, Art
Description : Organized filing system
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 11
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 62
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 1
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 5
Total Number of Other Participants:
3
Topics:
Neighborhood Revitalization
Description : Painted and renovated indoor space
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness, Art
Description : Voices Amplified is a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together arts and social justice to connect the Omaha community with opportunities for discussion and reflection. In this project the UNO school of Art and Art History partnered with Omaha Performing Arts to feature the exhibits of UNO students and faculty of color.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 112
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming
Description : Students from Ciara Warden’s Generalist Practice class created a resource book for the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility. The students compiled resources based on what information they gathered during interviews with the youth in the facility.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 240
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement
Description : Social Work students will partner with local nonprofit agencies to explore social work careers and provide direct services to clients as well as focus on a macro issue within the agency.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Capacity Building
Description : STEPs will work with Partnership 4 Kids staff and key stakeholders to review existing logic models, develop a theory of change, gather program outcome and cost data and research valuation of cost and benefit indicators. This information will be used to create a Social Return on Investment (SROI) report and deliverables appropriate to share with various program stakeholders.