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: 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:
Inter/Trans-culture, Refugees
Description : Traditional GEOG1000 Arts and Sciences Fund World Regional Geography
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 7
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 26
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 9
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 49
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture
Description : Phone banked ethnic grocery stores and restaurants to create directory for clients, assembled in-take packets
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
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:
2
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Refugees
Description : Volunteers will be organizing donations in the food room and the warehouse.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 45
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 25
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : In this project the two groups worked together to gather coats for Lutheran Family Services. The groups decided to have a competition to see who could gather the most coats. They got together to make posters and then talk about the project. P-16 FLC Student Government.
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:
Refugees
Description : Traditional ENGL2160 Arts and Sciences Honors Composition II
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:
Gerontology
Description :
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 160
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 20
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 80
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming
Description : Sara Ridgley’s students from Nathan Hale Middle School worked together with the members from UNO’s Freshman Leadership Council. The students all participated in activities that revolved around personality traits. Early in the semester, all of the students took personality test to determine what category they would fall into. FLC members then created activities that all of the participants could partake in together. FLC connected with middle school students to help learn about government and student involvement. All students worked to make placements together which were donated to Children's Hospital.
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:
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:
18
Topics:
Refugees, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : The UNO School of Public Administration invites you to the 2nd public forum on the NGO/Nonprofit Response to the Refugee Crisis. The Panel of Experts Includes: Amelia Rosser, Former Interim Assistant Director of Refugee Empowerment Center; Current MPA Student; Dekow Sagar, Program Coordinator; International Center of the Heartland, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc. Veronica Hill, Program Coordinator and ESL/Migrant Teacher Trainer Yates Educational Community Partnership (ECP), Omaha Public Schools. Facilitated by: Dr. Hans Louis-Charles, Assistant Professor Emergency Services Program, School of Public Administration. ADDITIONAL PARTNERS: Listed above
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 32
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
Description : Students will write a grant, using an RFP provided in class but based on a real organization. Students will have the choice of whether they let the organization know.