Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
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:
7
Topics:
Capacity Building
Description : As experts on volunteer satisfaction and evaluation for nonprofits, VPA-UNO wants to share information to help organizations learn how to create better experiences for volunteers.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 32
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 23
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 46
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Music/Dance
Description : On Monday, September 18th, UNO students from Professor Fannin’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble class will connect with families from the Learning Community Center of South Omaha, and Springfield Platteview students from Ms. Ehrke’s class for a service learning collaboration. All partners will meet on campus for lunch first then will split up to their designated areas. Professor Fannin and her students will work with the parents from the Learning Community Center to teach them about musical instruments and provide instruments that they will be able to try out for themselves. Ms. Ehrke’s students will have activities prepared for the younger children from the Learning Community Center. At the end, all children and students will gather to listen into the rehearsal put on by the parents and UNO students.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 380
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 :
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 136
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 16
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare
Description :
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 302
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter, Youth Programming
Description : Social Work 1500 students provide support and assistance in leading a service learning after-school club at Completely KIDS. Completely Kids works with Preschool – 6th grade children and families through school programs and homeless shelter partnerships. Their primary population is children in poverty, working to educate children and families on knowledge and skills to help break the poverty cycle. This project also involves UNO students providing support and helping with an after school service learning club. CK is relocating during big renovations next year. CK will work with the different site coordinators to identify a location within the 12 service sites. UNO students will help CK students identify a community need they would like to positively impact and help support CK students through the development and implementation of their project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 232
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 12
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter, Youth Programming
Description : Social Work 1500 students provide support and assistance in leading a service learning after-school club at Completely KIDS. Completely Kids works with Preschool – 6th grade children and families through school programs and homeless shelter partnerships. Their primary population is children in poverty, working to educate children and families on knowledge and skills to help break the poverty cycle. This project also involves UNO students helping to lead a nutrition/cooking club on Tuesdays/Thursdays, in collaboration with Together, Inc. Nutrition Club encourages kid participation using food jokes, sharing interesting food facts to learn about nutrition, and cooking with the use of kid-appropriate recipes. This project will conclude with the creation of a kid-inspired recipe book comprised of the dishes made during club. The club participants will also work with an artist to paint a mural in the food pantry of Together, Inc. the mural was in process at the end of the project.
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:
15
Topics:
Description : How do you feel about the phrase, “scientists say”? This event aims to discuss how social perspectives, information-cultivating strategies, and rhetoric, all shape public understanding of science in the 21st century. This month, discuss ideas spanning from Aristotle to noted neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran. Join an exercise in developing as effective communicators of science. Presentation by Andrew Wahl. This Month: Andrew Wahl focuses on ideas spanning from Aristotle to noted neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran. Attendees can take part in an exercise towards developing as effective communicators of science. Meetings are held monthly. Community Science Table is an organization for making science accessible to all by facilitating communication between scientists and the public. They organize venues that attend to the public’s inquiries and perceptions of science and prepare UNO STEM students to be more effective and approachable communicators.
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:
50
Topics:
Description : This Month: Dr. Roma Subramanian's presentation looks at how news stories on mental illness challenge or perpetuate stigma and how visual narratives might help decrease stigma. Subramanian's research includes the construction and effects of health news and campaigns, with regard to stigmatized disorders. Meetings are held monthly. Community Science Table is an organization for making science accessible to all by facilitating communication between scientists and the public. They organize venues that attend to the public’s inquiries and perceptions of science and prepare UNO STEM students to be more effective and approachable communicators.
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:
12
Topics:
Description : No description for this event.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 142
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 23
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 109
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Health Awareness
Description : Students from Professor Marlina Davidson’s Public Speaking Fundamentals course and Ms. Marcie Muhammad’s 10th grade English class will create presentations bringing drug awareness to the Omaha community. This P-16 service learning project highlights the effects synthetic drugs have on the Omaha community and schools. This project reinforces classroom curriculum for UNO and Benson High School students by furthering cultivating their public speaking and presentation skills.