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: 109
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 1,744
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 116
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 464
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security
Description : Students from UNO's Thompson Learning Community are working with middle school students from Parternship 4 Kids to meet the identified needs of the Hunger Collaborative by raising awareness of food insecurity at local metro grocery stores. Students also journaled about how to utilize their identified strengths to meet the needs of the project and exchanged them throughout the semester. US 2020 TLC Sophomore Seminar
Engagement Type:
Board Memberships
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
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:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Raise Awareness, Social Justice Awareness
Description : For this project Amy Ellefson served as a task force member for the Transgender Education and Advocacy Partnership with ACLU of Mississippi.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
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:
Education, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness
Description : For this project Jeremy Lipschultz participated in a peer-reviewed panel which was competitively accepted, he also wrote and helped organize the August 2017 session with Chicago media and academics.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
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:
85
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : Community dialogue during lunch that explores how race gender and sexual orientation intersect for unique experiences.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
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:
100
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : Black Lives Matter sheds light on the issues surrounding the discussion of race in relation to the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
72
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : Community dialogue during lunch that explores how race and class intersect for unique experiences in the Omaha Metro.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description :
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Medical Humanities, Disadvantaged Populations, Social Justice Awareness
Description : Though this service project, led by Karen Weber and UNO PRSSA, 300 coloring and activity books were printed and distributed in Spring 2021 to the visiting nurses association as well as the MICAH house, a homeless shelter located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This year (Spring 2022) UNO PRSSA partnered with the YMCA to donate coloring and activity books.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Medical Services, Social Justice Awareness, Organ and Blood Donation
Description : For this project Karen Weber and UNO PRSSA have partnered with Live on Nebraska, organizing a 'Donate Life' campaign on campus at UNO to promote organ and tissue donation and expand the registry of organ donors.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Specialized service contract
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Disadvantaged Populations, Literacy, Youth Programming
Description : In this project Maverick PR produced a series of videos for UNO MOEC (Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium) and Raise me to Read. The videos were produced in English and Spanish and encouraged child literacy.