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: 5
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 100
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:
Description : UNO Social Work and Civic Engagement students collaborate with NAMI to write and collect letters that advocate for mental health importance and policy. Students also assist NAMI with their social media presence. Traditional project. SOWK 1500.001
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 18
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:
Description : Social work leader of NAMI on Campus Club worked with students throughout the year who participated in the September chalk the walk programming and Ending the Silence Presentation to create awareness and education about mental health. The students also participated in Durango Days in collaboration with NAMI Nebraska.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
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:
Description : UNO students at the CEC welome desk provided support and expertise regarding the NAMI website. Students weremaster students in the College of IS&T and met NAMI via the CEC as the welcome desk OSS staff.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 27
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:
Description : Community Partner Project Name: Linguistic Justice and Latino Health WhatMakesUs Project Destigmatize/demystify mental health in Latino and Black/African American community by having students interview a friend, relative, or any individual that fits criteria. The hope is to get recommendations from the students as a result of their data collection regarding how to better connect to the Latino community through their interviews. UNO students worked with The Wellbeing Partners to learn more about stigma and language in the Latino community. Students conducted interviews in Spanish and shared their results. Community partner economic value of project was shared as $2,000. Traditional project. SPAN 4970.001
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 88
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 8
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 72
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : APPLIED VOICE, undergraduate students will have the opportunity to engage in a service learning project encompassing interdisciplinary collaboration with Central High School students. This service learning project has UNO students perform music that they have learned to Central High students, after which UNO students will teach them the songs by sharing the score of the music pieces with them and having rehearsals afterwards. Central High students will have the opportunity to engage and further their learning with these materials as they perform the music they learn to residents of Aksarben Village. P-16 Project. MUS 115T.002, 215T.002, 315T.002
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 7
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 147
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:
Description : Students will enhance their essential professional skills for personal and team success through investigating issues in a global context. Explore in-demand professional aptitudes (self-awareness, emotional intelligence, teamwork, communication, and workplace interaction expectations). Through industry/community interaction, explore cultural and business norms and the application of broader perspectives to identify issues/solutions responsive and adaptive to their global context. This semester, students are partnering with Canopy South. Over the course of the semester, students explored this history of South Omaha and the mission of Canopy South. The students visited Canopy South’s office and spoke directly with staff and visit a variety of sites that Canopy South has an interest in revitalizing. Students decided to focus on Upland Park; they worked closely as a team to develop a proposal and presentation for their professor (Dr. Stu Bernstein), Canopy South staff (Juan Padilla), SLA staff, and College of Engineering advisors. Traditional Project. ENGR 2000.001
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 84
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 32
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 256
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Members of UNO’s Freshman Leadership Council (FLC) will work together with Sara Ridgley’s 8th grade Honors students from Nathan Hale Middle School. Nathan Hale students will serve as Secret Kindness Agents this semester. Students will brainstorm smaller, weekly acts of kindness and the UNO students will work with the Nathan Hale students on a few of their larger SKA projects. P-16 Project. Freshman Leadership Council
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 60
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 45
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 135
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO Young Scholars students provide a campus tour for 4th grade Washington Elementary students to educate them and answer questions about college and career readiness. P-16 Project. Young Scholars Program
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 6
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 147
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:
Description : Students will work with assigned families from the Learning community to help create meaningful opportunities to get to know one another, and teach various content topics. P-16 Project. TED 2050.002
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 245
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:
Description : Students work with assigned families from the Learning community to help create meaningful opportunities to get to know one another, and teach various content topics for 6 sessions. P-16 Project. TED 2050.002