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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| 2018 Louder Than a Bomb UNO Student Intern: 2017-18 (1147) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC) | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Spring | 2017-18 | Spring | 2017-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Literacy, Capacity Building, Poetry | UNO student interning for organizations annual Louder Than a Bomb project. This student internship was during the spring of 2018 and the internship included programmatic and administrative support. | ||
| GARY SOTO's Writing Workshop and Poetry Reading (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2839) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Writers Collective | Thompson Learning Community | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Award-winning author, GARY SOTO, will facilitate a creative writing workshop and poetry reading at the University of Nebraska Omaha! There were two parts of this event including a workshop and a poetry reading. | |||
| NWC Youth Laureate (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (2842) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Nebraska Writers Collective | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NWC teamed up with different individuals, including a UNO staff member, to play an active role in their Youth Laureate. | |||
| Writers to Writers (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2843) | Community-Based Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The series brings notable area writers to campus to read from their work and to lead students in writing exercises. Writers to Writers is made possible through a cultural enrichment grant of $3,000. There were three events throughout the Fall. | ||||||
| Intergenerational Poetry Contest: 2017-18 (753) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support, Environmental Stewardship, Health and Wellness | Nebraska Writers Collective, Omaha Public Library, Omaha Public Schools | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Gerontology | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | Literacy, Gerontology, Poetry | Each year the Poetry to Bridge Generations Contest awards prizes to local youth and elders and hosts a Winners Celebration and Poetry Slam to hear readings of the winning poems and provide an opportunity for face-to-face dialogue about poetry and poems. | |||
| Evidence based Nebraska - School-based - Alternative School: 2020-21 (1402) | Social Justice | Alliance Alternative High School, Alliance Public Schools, Juvenile Case Management System, Nebraska Writers Collective, Platte County Juvenile Services, Saunders County Youth Services | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | School-based programs help provide educational support, training and/or supervision for youth where academic and/or behavioral problems originated in the school setting. There are four types of school-based programs: After School, Alternative School, School Interventionist, and School Resource Officers. Alternative Schools focus on youth who have been expelled or suspended form their home school system to provide academic enrichment to the youth. This helps youth earn credits while waiting to return to school so they don’t fall behind in school work, grades, and can graduate in a timely manner. | |||
| 2017 Louder Than a Bomb UNO Volunteers: 2016-17 (1148) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2016-17 | Spring | 2016-17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Literacy, Capacity Building, Poetry | Each spring UNO students and faculty volunteer their time to support Louder Than a Bomb. This project has taken place since 2015, bringing talented, creative high school and junior hight students to UNO. There have been three major locations including the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Thompsen Alumni Center, and Milo Bail Student Center. | ||
| 2018 Louder Than a Bomb UNO Volunteers: 2017-18 (1149) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2017-18 | Spring | 2017-18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Literacy, Capacity Building, Poetry | Each spring UNO students and faculty volunteer their time to support Louder Than a Bomb. This project has taken place since 2015, bringing talented, creative high school and junior hight students to UNO. There have been three major locations including the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Thompsen Alumni Center, and Milo Bail Student Center. | ||
| 2019 Louder Than a Bomb UNO Volunteers: 2018-19 (1150) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Literacy, Capacity Building, Poetry | Each spring UNO students and faculty volunteer their time to support Louder Than a Bomb. This project has taken place since 2015, bringing talented, creative high school and junior hight students to UNO. There have been three major locations including the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Thompsen Alumni Center, and Milo Bail Student Center. | ||
| Writer's Block Program: 2022-23 (3023) | Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | MaverickPR | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The Nebraska Writers Collective hired MaverickPR in the fall of 2022 to design a new logo for its Writer's Block program. Our5-member graphic design team meet with the client, conducted research and developed creative briefs that offered the rationale behind the design concepts. The NWC team chose Creative director Tristen Menichetti's design. She made revisions and packaged the logo design. By the numbers, five students worked on the project that took 11 hours total—8 in designing and 3 in consulting with the client. | ||||
| Personnel and Volunteer Management in Nonprofits (Spring 2018): 2017-18 | Educational Support, Social Justice | Nebraska Writers Collective | Public Administration, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | None | 25 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | Students will help to develop materials such as volunteer manuals, volunteer recruitment plans, board orientations, employee handbooks, etc. | ||
| Nebraska Writers Collective UNO Student Teaching Artists: 2016-17 (1153) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Fine Arts | Community-Based Learning | None | None | Fall | 2016-17 | Spring | 2019-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building, Art | Between 2015 to 2019, Nebraska Writers Collective accessed 4 undergraduate students through the UNO Fine Arts program. | ||
| NWC Teaching Artist - Fall 2023: 2022-23 (3115) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eva Burklund, who began working for service learning in August 2023, continues to serve as a Teaching Artist at Westview High School, leading weekly creative writing workshops. Her service learning project took place in Fall 2022 and concluded that semester. | |||||||
| Nebraska Writers Collective- Board Membership: 2021-22 (1720) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Nebraska Writers Collective | Teacher Education | Board Memberships | None | None | Fall | 2021-22 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dr. Ferial Pearson serves on the board of directors | ||||
| Gender Revolt!: 2017-18 (1152) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Social Justice | Film Streams, Nebraska Writers Collective | Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Women and Gender Studies | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Fall | 2017-18 | Fall | 2017-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LBTGQ+, Gender Equality, Theatre and Cinema | A 10-film series about Hollywood's representation of queer culture. The series, which runs Saturday, Aug. 26, through Wednesday, Sept. 27, was curated in part by students and faculty from UNO's Women and Gender Studies program. Additional support for the series came from UNO's Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. As part of the series, three of the films are directly co-sponsored by the UNO Women and Gender Studies program: 1) Tuesday, Sept. 12, will feature a sing-along of the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," which tells the story of a gender-fluid punk rocker from East Berlin. A post-film discussion will be lead by UNO sociology professor Jay Irwin. 2) Tuesday, Sept. 19, will feature "Pariah," the story of a Brooklyn teen who embraces her identity as a lesbian while navigating how her identity affects her relationship with family and friends. A post-film panel will feature a group of national scholars who will discuss queer and intersectional identities in film. 3) Tuesday, Sept. 26, will feature a screening of "The Watermelon Women," with director Cheryl Dunye. The film is a documentary about Dunye's experiences trying to uncover the history of a 1930s black actress known simply as "The Watermelon Woman" while experiencing and uncovering secrets in her own life. Prior to the film's showing, on Sunday, Sept. 17, the UNO Women and Gender Studies program is joining the Nebraska Writer's Collective to host a "Gender Revolt! Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic" at Muglife Coffee, 2452 Harney St., from 6 to 8 p.m. https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2017/08/uno-groups-partner-with-film-streams-for-lgbtqia-film-series.php | ||
| Leadership and Community (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2787) | Educational Support | Food Bank for the Heartland | Educational Leadership, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 20 | 460 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Leadership and Mentoring | Scholars will select one organization to partner with and develop a project that meets the organization's needs. Students must have a minimum of 20 -25 hours of service-learning project (SLP) time during the semester. Service hours will be integrated into class time throughout the semester, though students will have to complete some of the required hours outside of the designated class time. A capstone project presentation will provide an overview of the community partner, its mission, and what leadership skills and strategies students utilized to assist the partner throughout the semester. MPI service learning project EDL 2590.099 | ||
| Journalism (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2815) | Educational Support | American Heart Association, Combined Health Agencies Drive, Nebraska Writers Collective, Omaha Girls Rock | Communication, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 25 | 575 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Literacy | UNO students work with community partners for hands on experience working with real clients in writing. They will make contact, interview, and get immersed in the organizations. Traditional service learning project JMC 3230.001 | ||
| Intergenerational Poetry Contest: 2016-17 | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support, Health and Wellness | Nebraska Writers Collective, Omaha Public Library, Omaha Public Schools | Aviation Institute, Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Gerontology | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Spring | 2016-17 | Spring | 2016-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | Poetry | Each year the Poetry to Bridge Generations Contest awards prizes to local youth and elders and hosts a Winners Celebration and Poetry Slam to hear readings of the winning poems and provide an opportunity for face-to-face dialogue about poetry and poems. | ||
| Feedback Writing Workshop: 2016-17 | Educational Support | Kaneko, Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), UNO Libraries | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Workshop | None | Fall | 2016-17 | Fall | 2016-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | Literacy | This interactive reading series asks the question: What happens when writers pull back the curtain on their creative process and invite the audience to become part of the conversation? Feedback is an ongoing series that aims to enliven the conversation about the writing process. Part reading, part conversation, the goal of this reading series is to provide working writers with a space to read and discuss their work, to invigorate the audience by inviting them into the writer’s process and creative development, and, through our free writing workshops, to provide adults and young adults in our community an opportunity to generate their own work. | ||
| A Reading by Anand Prahlad | Educational Support, Social Justice | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Fine Arts | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Fall | 2016-17 | Fall | 2016-17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Literacy | Anand Prahlad will read from his memoir The Secret Life of a Black Aspie, winner of the 2016 Permafrost Prize Award for Nonfiction. The Secret Life of a Black Aspie relates the challenges and rewards of being both black and neurodivergent in America, offering a singular perspective on life with Asperger’s. Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, praised the memoir as “a remarkable, important, brilliantly written book.” Part of Black History Month with the UNO Office of Multicultural Affairs | ||
| A Reading and Workshop: Featuring Graham Foust and Geoffrey Nutter: 2016-17 | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Fine Arts | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Workshop | None | Fall | 2016-17 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | Literacy, Poetry | After a reading by Geoffrey Nutter and Graham Foust, Nutter presented his Wallson Glass Writing Workshop. The workshop, Life of the Imagination, is two hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. | |||
| Crowding Nebraska's Prisons: 2018-19 (958) | Social Justice | Black and Pink, Metropolitan Community College (MCC), Nebraska Writers Collective, Omaha Correctional Center (OCC), Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), English | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Workshop | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | Human Rights & Trafficking | The Nebraska Prison Post-Secondary Education Project (NPPSEP) is hosting a series of panels and a keynote speaker related to their purpose and work they've done in partnership with the Omaha Correctional Center. This event will take place Wednesday, April 17 from 10 A.M. - 1 P.M. inside the Community Engagement Center, rooms 201/205/209. A pizza lunch will also be provided during this time. Let’s overcrowd the prison with our favorite books! Please bring your favorite book to the symposium to donate to the Omaha Correctional Center. They need copies of fiction, poetry, and some nonfiction for their library. Panel 1: Writing Corrections Nicholas Bell and Tyrone Harper III of Writer’s Block, Carmala Aderman of Hero’s Journey, and Steve Langan and Alana Alexander of Programming Life 101 will discuss the creative writing that occurs within and beyond spaces of confinement. Panel 2: Education and Re-entry Diane Good-Collins and formerly incarcerated individuals who are transitioning from correctional facilities will discuss some of the educational opportunities offered by the Metropolitan Community College’s 180 Re-Entry program. Keynote Speaker: Dominique Morgan Dominique Morgan is the national director of Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. Partnering his lived experience of incarceration as a youth (which included 18 months in solitary confinement), and a decade of change making advocacy and background in public health, Dominique continues to work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and the impact it has on our community. The Nebraska Prison Post-Secondary Education Project was created with the belief that education is one solution to America's prison problem. This program was developed in Fall 2017 through private funding to create a partnership between the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and the Omaha Correctional Center (OCC). The primary purpose of this project is to offer UNO courses, taught by UNO professors, lecturers and instructors, within OCC. | ||
| Judge - Nebraska Writers Guild: 2019-20 (2367) | Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Writing Center | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Summer | 2019-20 | Summer | 2019-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Education, Capacity Building | For this project Kevin Clouther judged submissions for literary competition in the Nebraska Writers Guild. | ||
| All Writes Reserved (Fall 2023): 2022-23 (3117) | Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | We collaborated with STEPs (Angela Batson) to revise our All Writes Reserved survey questions and logic model from September to November 2022, then sought guidance from Jody Gabel for developing the logic model and evaluation tools for the North Omaha Writers Workshop program. | ||||
| NWC Community Advisory Committee (Fall 2023): 2022-23 (3116) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Zedeka, who joined the Tell All the Truth Advisory Committee in May 2023, is currently serving on the committee and will continue to do so until at least May 2024, facilitating connections with local artists and performance spaces, and linking them with programs such as the Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate program. | |||||||
| Collaborative Intern - Nebraska Writers Collective: 2023-24 (3129) | Educational Support | Nebraska Writers Collective | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Community-Based Learning | None | None | Fall | 2023-24 | None | 1 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UNO students hired as Collaborative interns are matched with community organizations, Students are paid through the grant-funded program. Nonprofits coordinate meaningful work for interns to benefit the student experience in different ways. Students typically intern during the fall and spring semesters and may serve the same organization for more than one academic year. Each unique student that works as a Collaborative intern with this specific community partner is identified within this project. | ||||
| 2023 National Voter Registration Day: 2023-24 (3136) | Social Justice | League of Women Voters, Nebraska Writers Collective, Skatefest Omaha | Volunteer and Civic Engagement Programs | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Other | ['Voting and Civic Engagement'] | Fall | 2023-24 | Fall | 2023-24 | 272 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students, the campus, and the community will have a chance to celebrate National Voter Registration Day with food, music, and art. Voter registration will be available from the League of Women Voters at Milo Bail and at the Criss Library. |