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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| Criterion Development and Performance Appraisal (Fall 2021): 2021-22 (2668) | Educational Support | Black and Pink | Psychology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2021-22 | Fall | 2021-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The students will need to engage in the following interactions with the job incumbents and their supervisors in the Community Agency ABC. 1. Interview the 1-2 job incumbent(s) 2. administer a 15-min survey to the 1-2 job incumbent(s) and their supervisor. The survey includes task inventory and associated knowledge and skills established based on interviews and literature. The final deliverables include: 1. Detailed job analysis report (I attached a sample job analysis report conducted by previous graduate students) 2. Well-designed performance appraisal system tailored to the job analyzed Job analysis and performance appraisal presentation to provide practical recommendations Students were organized into 3 groups to analyze a total of 3 types of jobs. Those jobs can be in one organization (e.g., HR jobs, software engineering, sales representatives in one tech company) or different organizations. Traditional Project. PSYC 9660.001 | |||
| Corporate Social Responsibility (Fall 2021, Industrial Purchasing): 2021-22 (2111) | Economic Impact, Educational Support | Black and Pink, Habitat for Humanity: Council Bluffs, No More Empty Pots, Omaha Public Schools Foundation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul Omaha, Together Inc | Management, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2021-22 | None | 47 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | Students enrolled in Steve Schulz BSAD 8386 850/SCMT 4380 850: Industrial Purchasing and Logistic Management will work in small teams with partners on their specific identified needs. The learning objectives of this project is to focus on coordination and delivery of things that provide value add to the stakeholder (community partners). At the end of the semester, students will provide their partners with a recorded presentation and supporting materials | |||
| Business Ethics (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1217) | Social Justice | Black and Pink, Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska, Community Action of Nebraska, Completely Kids, Heart Heroes | Business, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Social Justice Awareness | Students will work in teams to complete an ethics audit of a non-profit organization. In these ethics audits, teams will research the ethics of the organization, provide a risk assessment for key ethics areas, and make recommendations where applicable. Teams will be expected to conduct research in the organization; reviewing existing documents as well as interviewing and surveying staff. Teams will provide each organization with a written report and summary presentation. | ||
| 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. |