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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| Age Friendly City Initiative (Fall 2017): 2017-18 (965) | Health and Wellness | AARP, Civic Nebraska | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Gerontology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Other | None | Fall | 2017-18 | Spring | 2017-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Gerontology | UNO Gerontology assisted and supported community outreach with AARP and Age Friendly City Initiative. | ||
| Senior Prom (Spring 2020): 2019-20 (1190) | Educational Support, Health and Wellness | AARP, Civic Nebraska, Lewis and Clark Middle School, Omaha Public Schools | Gerontology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2019-20 | Spring | 2019-20 | 24 | 48 | 0 | 24 | 96 | 0 | Youth Programming, Gerontology | UNO students from Professor Lyn Holley’s Intro to Gerontology (GERO2000) would work together with G.I.V.E. students from Lewis and Clark Middle School to discuss themes and plan for the Senior Prom. UNO students will have an opportunity to work with Civic Nebraska twice a week in Lewis and Clark G.I.V.E. program on preparing senior prom project. At prom, students would set up activities and food to celebrate the event. Due to remote learning, UNO and G.I.V.E. students will write poems about generations and submit them into an online contests and UNO online. | ||
| Evidence based Nebraska - Mediation - Restorative Justice: 2020-21 (1389) | Social Justice | AARP, Abide Omaha, Central Mediation Center - Sherman County, Central Middle School, Millard Public Schools, Concord Mediation Center, Gage County Attorney, Juvenile Case Management System, Nebraska Mediation Center, The Lighthouse, The Mediation Center | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice Institute, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Engaged Research | None | None | Summer | 2020-21 | None | None | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Juvenile/Adult Justice System | Mediation/Restorative Justice is a form of conflict resolution in which trained leaders help the victim(s) and offender work together to resolve disputes. Mediators do not make judgements or offer advice, and they have no power to force decisions. Victims are able to have input into an offender’s sentence. Includes victim impact statements, defining the restitution owed, or other forms of affecting resolution of a juvenile justice case. Other stakeholders may participate in the process as well. | ||
| Waste Not Want Not (Fall 2023): 2023-24 (3185) | Environmental Stewardship | AARP, Aksarben-Elmwood Neighborhood Association, A Time to Heal Cancer Foundation | College of Arts and Sciences, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2023-24 | None | 13 | 175 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students` awareness of composting and zero waste school lunches will be raised during this course. Students will work in groups with Blackburn students to come up with a proposal to give to OPS and UNO staff to expand composting more thoroughly on campus. SUST 1000.001 P-16 |