Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 10
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 93
Total Number of Other Participants:
2
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : Greenhouse and outdoor garden revitalization
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:
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:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 21
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 441
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 24
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 120
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Capacity Building
Description : UNO students worked with North High Magnet Students to understand the population changes and immigration in the Omaha communities. They used Flipgrid to create an environment to discuss topics such as Redlining in Omaha. They worked together to search of how topics like Crime, Politics, and Media, Education, Health, Social Justice, and Economics are connected to Redlining in Omaha. HONR 3030 098 P-16 Project
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 122
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 165
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 1,237
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Music/Dance
Description : Faculty and students from UNO, OAYO, North and Bryan will build musical relationships, and explore communication, leadership, mentorship, and pedagogical skills. An on campus clinic will be held for on one day for high school students to participate in campus visits, on campus lunch and on campus, in depth clinic activities with conductors and UNO musicians. A side by side concert will also be held with the Heartland Philharmonic, Bryan and North High Schools.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 21
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 8
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 9
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO students from the Indigenous Research Methods ANTH 4920 class met during lunch with students from North High's Native Indigenous Centered Education (N.I.C.E.) program to discuss different indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing through meaningful discussions and activities. Students had a chance to partake in the Enslaved Exhibit at UNO which inspired them to display their own showcase of different arts that represented them, their indigenous culture, and what they learned throughout the course of the project from their discussions and trip to the Indian Industrialization School in Genoa, Nebraska.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 21
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
1
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : Volunteers will be helping with a stormwater pollution prevention project and cleaning and labeling storm drains.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 18
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 261
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 53
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 26
Total Number of Other Participants:
8
Topics:
Employment and Workforce, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring
Description : UNO students from Instructor Rita Shaughnessy's Fundamentals of Public Speaking course and League of Women Voters will host a workshop for young women from Omaha High Schools. The workshop will introduce them to the political process and possibly encourage them to run for office one day by inviting locally elected women officals to share their experiences and allowing the young women to practice developing a mock political campaign.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 21
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 89
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 22
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 38
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Human Rights & Trafficking, Inequality, Civic and Political Engagement, Art, History
Description : Dr. Celinscak's history of Holocaust class will be meeting with students from Omaha North to discuss The Art of Samuel Bak. There is an exhibit coming to UNO featuring his paintings. They will break into small groups and discuss paintings focused on Holocaust, justice, and human rights. Omaha North students will be giving a tour of UNO's art gallery.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
1
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : Repotting and reorganization of thousands of perennial flowers.