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: 10
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 60
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 5
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 30
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture
Description : Students from Dr. Curtis Hutt's Jerusalem class worked with Central High School students and Inclusive Communities. The students worked together to plan a table talk held at Central High School in Spring. The table talk's topic covered the situation in Jerusalem.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Engaged Teaching
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:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building, Music/Dance
Description : This course works with Omaha Central High School exploring song repertoire of historically marginalized composers.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Refugees, Theatre and Cinema
Description : UNO and community members are invited to view the moving and informative documentary “This Is Home: A Refugee Story,” which follows four Syrian refugee families as they navigate a new life in Baltimore, MD during the first 8 months after resettlement. After the film, there will be a brief panel discussion with Lacey Studnicka of Lutheran Family Services and two Central High School students whose families were resettled in Omaha as refugees from Syria. Food will be provided. This event is sponsored by Lutheran Family Services, Omaha Public Schools, Central High School, Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, and the UNO Department of Religious Studies.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 12
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 9
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 9
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Capacity Building
Description : UNO students enrolled in MUS 115T-815T: Applied Voice, provided a lesson with 'tips and tricks' on how to sing a song from a marginalized composer. Communication between UNO and Central High School students was through FlipGrid. MUS 115T/215T P-16 Project
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Health Awareness, Music/Dance
Description : Sound Health: Bringing Music to Medicine contributes to the environment of care for patients, visitors, and staff through live music while giving music students the chance to engage with the community and perform. Due to restrictions on volunteers and visitors in health care facilities, UNO School of Music students will mentor Central High School Orchestra students via ZOOM on their pieces. The final video performances of Central High School Orchestra students will be shared with the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Healing Arts program and made available in patient rooms on the Healing Arts channel.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Faculty Research
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness
Description : This project brings together participants who represent stakeholders in Omaha from a variety of race, gender, age and socioeconomic communities. The purpose of the project is to provide on-ramps of comfortability into the conversation surrounding diversity and inclusion. Singers present music from a diverse array of composers that speak to the lived experiences of marginalized population in Omaha and around the country.
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