Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Mentoring
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 53
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 318
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming
Description : The project involved having middle school and high school students from the metro area participate in learning about employment training, college planning, financial literacy and student peer panel facilitation.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 40
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2021-22
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
10
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Education, Disadvantaged Populations, Inequality, Employment and Workforce, Income and Income Equality, Poverty, Neighborhood Revitalization, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness
Description : The Legislature’s Planning Committee plays a critical role in both the Nebraska Unicameral and, more broadly, in our state government’s efforts to plan and prepare for the success and wellbeing of future generations. The Planning Committee works with the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR), which compiles and presents data about demographics and the workforce to the Committee. The Committee uses that data to set priorities and then makes recommendations to the Legislature for legislation that aligns with those goals.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 40
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
10
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Education, Disadvantaged Populations, Inequality, Employment and Workforce, Income and Income Equality, Poverty, Neighborhood Revitalization, Capacity Building, Social Justice Awareness
Description : The Legislature’s Planning Committee plays a critical role in both the Nebraska Unicameral and, more broadly, in our state government’s efforts to plan and prepare for the success and wellbeing of future generations. The Planning Committee works with the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR), which compiles and presents data about demographics and the workforce to the Committee. The Committee uses that data to set priorities and then makes recommendations to the Legislature for legislation that aligns with those goals.
Engagement Type:
Engaged Research
Activity Type:
Policy research/paper
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education
Description : CPAR prepared population projections by age and grade for the fast-growing Norris School District. The projections utilized local fertility trends and detailed migration by age patterns. They highlight what the district can expect in the years ahead to aid their planning for expected future growth.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Neighborhood Revitalization, Capacity Building
Description : UNO students will work the Heartland Worker Center YNA group to create logic models that focus on getting youth engaged in neighborhoods from 24th and Lake Street to 24th and L Street. Listening sessions will be held with community members via zoom. Students will gather information around voter engagement, neighborhood mapping, police reports, vacant lots, lighting and sidewalks. Students will work together with Culture House, Together, and Heartland Worker House to create a plan that can be enacted to engage youth to become active in their community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 22
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 374
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 40
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring
Description : UNO students will work with the St. Luke Teen Center to develop and lead career and college readiness activiites for students attend the Center's seminars. There will be mock interviews, persuasive speeches, and informative speeches.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 22
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 132
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 50
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 300
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : Felicia Cervantes’ students are learning about empowerment. Dr. Austin and Felicia had two events together. The first meeting focused on starting to think about leadership. All students were asked questions about leadership. Then all students had a large group discussion. The second meeting SLA invited Vanessa Chavez Jurado, who is the Student Body Vice President at UNO. She accepted the invitation to talk about how she was empowered to be a leader and what leadership means to her. She presented for 15 minutes. Then we opened it up to the questions.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 21
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Music/Dance, Art
Description : Students from Dr. Austin's class will virtually listen to the UNION's Uplift and Elevate Concert. The students will interview the musicians. Then the students will create podcasts and videos.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 22
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 759
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Education, Other
Description : UNO Students enrolled in TED 2050: Intro to Teaching ESL will be participants in a service learning project which collaborates with the Learning Community Center of South Omaha (LCC) for six weeks. UNO students will engage with LCC families weekly via Zoom to explore topics of individual interest that cover technology, educational support, and overall wellness to better support their children during remote learning in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 40
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 4,240
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Youth Programming
Description : Freshmen UNO students from Dr. Stu Bernstein's ENGR1000, Interpersonal Skills for Engineering Leaders course will teach topics related to their coursework to fifth grade students from Field Club Elementary School via online video presentation to be sent to students. Throughout the project, both UNO and Field Club students will reflect on the project, documenting their learnings to be compiled into a hard-cover book. Learnings will be shared with parents of Field Club students at a final celebration.