This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community. Various filters are provided to gain a better understanding of how different UNO units collaborate with the community.
| Project | Project Focus Areas | Community Partners | Campus Partners | Engagement Type: | Activity Type: | Other Activity Type: | Start Semester: | Start Academic Year: | End Semester: | End Academic Year: | Total UNO Students: | UNO Students Hours: | UNO Faculty/Staff Hours: | Total K-12 Students: | K-12 Student Hours: | Total Number of Other Participants: | Topics: | Other Topics: | Description: | Subtags: |
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| Spanish Conversation (Fall 2016): 2016-17 | International Service | Heartland Workers Center | Foreign Languages, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 19 | 380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Inter/Trans-culture | Traditional SPAN4030 Arts and Sciences Advanced Spanish Conversation | ||
| Latino Politics (Fall 2016): 2016-17 (756) | Economic Impact, International Service, Social Justice | Heartland Workers Center, South High Magnet, Omaha Public Schools | Political Science, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | None | 15 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 0 | Food and Water Security, Inter/Trans-culture | P-16 LLS 3140/8145 Cross listed as PSCI 3140/8145 Arts and Science Latino Politics | ||
| Latino Politics (Spring 2018): 2017-18 | Economic Impact, International Service, Social Justice | Heartland Workers Center, South High Magnet, Omaha Public Schools | Political Science, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | None | 18 | 198 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | Food and Water Security, Inter/Trans-culture | UNO professor Dr. Johnathan Benjamin Alvarado partnered with UNO adjunct professor and South High Magnet School faculty Mr. Gutierrez to assist the Heartland Worker’s Center in their “I Vote for My Family” campaign that worked to increase voter turnout of South Omaha residents for the midterm election. Students learned about issues that affect Latino voters and barriers the Latino population face in America’s political system while they worked alongside the staff at the Heartland Worker’s Center (HWC) canvassing, phone banking, and knocking doors. The students, faculty, HWC staff, and community members celebrated their diligence at the Heartland Worker’s Center while sharing pupusas and pan dulce. | ||
| Neighborhood Capacity Building (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1495) | Educational Support, Environmental Stewardship, Social Justice | Culxr House, Heartland Workers Center, Together Inc | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Civic and Political Engagement, Neighborhood Revitalization, Capacity Building | UNO students will work the Heartland Worker Center YNA group to create logic models that focus on getting youth engaged in neighborhoods from 24th and Lake Street to 24th and L Street. Listening sessions will be held with community members via zoom. Students will gather information around voter engagement, neighborhood mapping, police reports, vacant lots, lighting and sidewalks. Students will work together with Culture House, Together, and Heartland Worker House to create a plan that can be enacted to engage youth to become active in their community. | ||
| Advanced Spanish (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2820) | Educational Support | Heartland Workers Center | Foreign Languages, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 24 | 552 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Education | UNO students will gain real-world experience of speaking Spanish while educating the Omaha South community on their right to vote and performing other civic engagements. The aim is to promote civic and election participation in South Omaha and encourage them to vote. Traditional service learning project SPAN 4030.860 | ||
| Fundamentals of Public Speaking -001(Spring 2024): 2023-24 (3258) | Educational Support | 3 Sisters, Abide Omaha, Building Bright Futures, Council Bluffs Pantry Association, Empowerment Network, Felius Cat Cafe and Rescue, Good New Jail and Prison Ministry, Habitat for Humanity: Council Bluffs, Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA), Heartland Workers Center, inCOMMON Community Development, Mode Shift Omaha, Release Inc, Restored Wings, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Omaha, Trans Stitchin | Communication | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2023-24 | None | 24 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus they chose for the informative speech. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to recieve the $1000 grant. CMST 1110.11 MPI |