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: 12
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 51
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 63
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : Stephanie Lynam's ILUNO students work with Rachael Burn's Horticulture students. Four events occurred this semester. First they visited the zoo to learn about tagging monarch butterflies. The second and third times UNO and NW students gave presentations about international plants, respectively. ILUNO students were also introduced to American high school cultural activities such as homecoming. During the last event the students planted in the green house.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 200
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Traditional THEA4550 Communication, Fine Arts, and Media History of Costume
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 500
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Traditional ENGR4690 Engineering Tech, Science and Civilization
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 16
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 320
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Self-Sufficiency
Description : SOC 3900 Arts and Sciences Race and Ethics Relations
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 96
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gerontology
Description : Students have two options for the service learning portion of this course. They can either propose their own community service project to be approved by Dr. Williams, or they can participate in the Voices Across Generations project extension, in which EDL students will pair up with a Royale Oaks resident and lead them on a tour to their old high school. Each student will journal throughout the semester and will write synthesis papers about their experiences.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 84
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Capacity Building
Description : Complete an evaluation of middle school program implementation
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:
Summer
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, Juvenile/Adult Justice System
Description : We are enthused about the opportunity presented by The Douglas County Commissioners Office, Operation Youth Success, and the Absentee Task Force to catalogue and profile existing community-based services that are available to provide support and assistance to students who are experiencing barriers to regular and consistent attendance in school. This evaluation of the Douglas County system currently responding to chronic absenteeism will include the identification of opportunities and barriers to these community-based services. The effort will also inform decisions of Operation Youth Success in its collective impact efforts to prevent youth from entering the juvenile justice system
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 315
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 15
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 120
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture
Description : UNO students from Dr. Robbins’ Special Topics in Native Americans class will connect with Ms. Brittany Strong’s NICE students to create Buckskin Buddies as a method to practice self-care and health-wellness. Mark Frailey and Kaitlyn Rider will guide the students on working with the buckskin pieces influenced by Native American culture. The Buckskin Buddies are being featured in the UNO Library this spring.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 11
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 110
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 49
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 245
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement
Description : Running and Winning was a workshop that brought together young women from area high schools to meet with past and present women elected officials throughout our community. This workshop aimed to utilize the elected officials’ rich experience and expertise to introduce young women to the political process, and possibly encourage them to run for office one day. This was the sixth year this interactive, fun P-16 service learning project and non-partisan workshop will be held on the UNO Campus in the Thompson Alumni Center. More than 50 young women from Omaha South, Omaha Central, Westside, and Northwest High Schools attended the program. At the event, women elected officials were interviewed by these high school students to learn more about their life in politics, educational and professional experiences. After these interviews, students worked in small groups to produce their own mock political campaigns, including speeches and campaign slogans. Teams presented at the workshop on a public policy issue currently being addressed in Nebraska: voter identification laws. Throughout the fall semester, students from UNO’s College of Communication had been working on this event in their public speaking service learning course. UNO students were responsible for preparing policy issue briefs and coaching the high school students on their mock campaign speeches at the workshop.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 156
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 102
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students from UNO’s Social Work and Civic Engagement course worked with residents at Royale Oaks Assisted Living and 7th graders from Sacred Heart School throughout the semester to create skits to perform to other Royale Oaks residents. UNO students met with 7th graders and residents about once per week to write, practice, and prep for the skit performance at the end of the semester. UNO students also went individually to Royale Oaks and Scared Heart to work on rapport building.