Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : Using a participatory, utilization-focused approach, STEPs will evaluate the Career Connectors Pilot Program at Metropolitan Community College. The evaluation will include developing a logic model, multivariate analysis, a costbenefit analysis, and obtaining and evaluating participant feedback.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 23
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 460
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description :
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 180
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description : Students will help to develop a CRM system for the organization.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
60
Topics:
Description : The Focus of the 2017 Rabbi and Jane Brooks Lecture Series - Violence White Supremacy and #Charlottesville: Can we learn anything from the ethics of war? Many people were shocked and saddened by the violence that came out of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville Virginia on August 11 and 12, 2017 especially when it came to light that three people (one civilian and two state police troopers) were killed during the events of the August 12 rally. Much has been written since the events on intersecting questions of race and racism the nature of protests the function of historical memory and the role of authorities before during and after the events. This talk attempts to understand what happened that day from a particular angle: It aims to ask what sort of violence or threats of violence were present on August 11 and 12 whether the violence was sanctioned (police presence) or unsanctioned (street brawling) and how we might sort out and understand the various uses of violence or threat of violence in a chaotic protest situation.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 13
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 221
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 170
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : The Boys Town Business Ethics project is a collaboration between UNO students and students from Boys Town High School. Students work together and discuss different ethical dilemmas presented in real world settings. The students will develop presentations with various ethical lessons. The purpose of this is to foster an understanding of ethical issues students may face in life, to empower students to create a presentation and develop public speaking skills, as well as to teach the lessons they learn over the semester to others. At the end of the semester Boys Town students and UNO students will get together and present their presentations to fourth and fifth grade students at Boys Town. The goal will be to strength the ethics lessons in their minds as well as to foster the ability to present and teach to others.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 116
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 16
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 128
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description :
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 45
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 13
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 13
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : Students from Preston Love Jr.’s Black Experience in American Politics class are partnering with Joshua Jablonski’s Benson High School students on a community survey. The survey asked Omaha residents about why they voted in previous elections or why they chose not to. The survey used Professor Love’s previous research in North Omaha to inform and strengthen the research. Due to challenges in the project, this semester was not able to gather survey results. UNO students went to Benson HS to talk about importance of voting and the African American experience in politics.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
29
Topics:
Description : The Bill Anderson Fund (BAF) Workshop is designed to help students working in the fields of emergency management and hazard mitigation expand their professional and leadership skills. The BAF Workshop welcomes a number of speakers from around the Midwest with a wide variety of experience in the hazard, disaster and academic fields.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
80
Topics:
History
Description : How did medieval artists represent architecture? How did Gothic cathedrals constructors prepare their architectural drawings? The talk explores conventions and techniques mosaicists, illuminators, panel painters, and graphic artists used to try to capture in two dimensions the complex reality of buildings and cityscapes - from the early Middle Ages to the cusp of the Renaissance.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Youth Programming, Capacity Building, Health Awareness
Description : The purpose of this project is to evaluate the new Better Together program of Heartland Family Service. Collaborating partners include Nebraska Families Collaborative and Douglas County Housing. Better Together is designed to assist child welfare-referred parents who are struggling with substance abuse issues, and their children (see logic model). Process evaluation components determine if services were delivered as intended, how multiple stakeholders worked together to deliver the services, client satisfaction, and to provide a cost-benefit analysis of the program. The outcome evaluation components will determine the outcomes for the families, parents, and children. A nonequivalent quasiexperimental time series research design with follow-up will be utilized with standardized measurement tools. Qualitative research will be utilized to capture rich data for both process and outcome evaluation purposes. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews will be conducted with Better Together parents. The sample available for the second year's outcome evaluation is anticipated to be 25 families in the experimental group (Better Together) and 25 families in the Treatment As Usual (TAU) group.