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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| InterFaith Dialogue (Spring 2018): 2017-18 | International Service, Social Justice | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools, Inclusive Communities | Philosophy and Religious Studies, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | None | 10 | 60 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 0 | Inter/Trans-culture | 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. | ||
| Applied Voice Course: 2020-21 (2392) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support, Social Justice | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools | Music | Community-Based Learning | Engaged Teaching | None | Spring | 2020-21 | Spring | 2021-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Education, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building, Music/Dance | This course works with Omaha Central High School exploring song repertoire of historically marginalized composers. | ||
| A Film Screening of "This Is Home: A Refugee Story": 2018-19 (866) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, International Service, Social Justice | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Omaha Public Schools | Philosophy and Religious Studies | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Refugees, Theatre and Cinema | 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. | ||
| UNO Music and Omaha Central High School (Spring 2021): 2020-21 (2087) | Educational Support | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2020-21 | Spring | 2020-21 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | Capacity Building | 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 | ||
| Historically Excluded Composers (Spring 2022): 2021-22 (2712) | Educational Support | Aksarben Village Senior Living, Dial Senior Living, Central High School, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2021-22 | Spring | 2021-22 | 8 | 88 | 0 | 8 | 72 | 0 | APPLIED VOICE, undergraduate students will have the opportunity to engage in a service learning project encompassing interdisciplinary collaboration with Central High School students. This service learning project has UNO students perform music that they have learned to Central High students, after which UNO students will teach them the songs by sharing the score of the music pieces with them and having rehearsals afterwards. Central High students will have the opportunity to engage and further their learning with these materials as they perform the music they learn to residents of Aksarben Village. P-16 Project. MUS 115T.002, 215T.002, 315T.002 | |||
| Sound Health (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1511) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Health and Wellness | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools, University of Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Wellness, Aging, Business, Health Awareness, Music/Dance | 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. | ||
| Reflections of Us: Singing Our Way to Unity: 2019-20 (2375) | Educational Support, Social Justice | Central High School, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha Public Schools | Music | Engaged Research | Faculty Research | None | Spring | 2019-20 | Spring | 2019-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Disadvantaged Populations, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness | 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. |