Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 60
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 33
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 594
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Mental Health, Medical Services, Music/Dance
Description : Sound Health; Bringing Music to Medicine is a Service Learning component of MUS 1000, an all-music student convocation. The Service Learning component for UNO students includes guest lectures, readings, and collaboration at Millard North HS (MNHS) during which time UNO music students will mentor and work with MNHS students under the guidance of Debbie Martinez and Mary Perkinson. Students at MNHS and UNO will prepare a program that will be performed collaboratively at UNMC Cancer Center on 12/4.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 29
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 26
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Partnering with North High School, One Omaha, and the Malcolm X Foundation, students in the Law and the Black Community aim to examine the effects of redlining on soil health. To do this, they plan on retrieving, testing, and comparing soil from two different areas in Omaha. This project is educational, as it aims to teach high school and college students the importance of lead and other pollutants in different areas of Omaha. It is also important for the community for more examples of these soil differences to be talked about rather than ignored in the community. BLST 3410.850 P-16
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 41
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 574
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 169
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 2,028
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Youth Programming, Music/Dance, Art, History
Description : CultureFest celebrates Omaha's rich cultural diversity. As a collaboration among the UNO Service Learning Academy, Beveridge Magnet Middle School and South Magnet High School, this event features food, music, art, performances, booths, activities and prizes for the community to enjoy.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 285
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 250
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Develop./Physical Disability, Art
Description : Graduate students from UNO Instructor Tami Williams’ Educational Leadership course collaborated with Ms. Danielle Elsasser’s 5rd grade students from Black Elk Elementary and adults with autism from the Autism Center of Nebraska (ACN). This project allowed the elementary students to foster relationships between themselves, UNO grad students, and the clients from ACN through the creation of STEAM based collaboration activities. Some of these activities included making origami, slime, and tinker toys. UNO students benefited by the gained experience of making lesson plans and working with students and adults with disabilities. To culminate the project, origami butterflies that were made during the project were hung on light up trees and given to Black Elk and ACN.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
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:
History
Description : This project was canceled due to remote learning. Students from Ralston High School worked with UNO students to do research and collect information about the history of 53 businesses that located in the Blackstone Area. The GA for the Honors course, Danial Faisal, will work with all the students to put all the findings into an app or website where it will be available to the Blackstone Business Association.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 13
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 22
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Music/Dance
Description : This project was canceled due to the transition to remote learning. UNO Elementary Music Methods students will be teaching etiquette to students at Western Hills Elementary School with the help of community partner Courteous Kids. UNO students will create original piggyback songs, which change the lyrics of popular songs to teach a specific lesson. The students will have the opportunity to use this method to teach important life skills to elementary students.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 10
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 11
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 110
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Music/Dance
Description : Dancers from UNO’s The Moving Company will be collaborating with Beveridge Middle School and Omaha South High School dance companies on a performance for the ten year anniversary of CultureFest. The choreography by UNO’s Danielle Laurion is inspired by cultures around the world with movement representing water, wind, and other elements of nature. The collaboration provides an opportunity for the middle school, high school, and university dancers to connect with each other and showcase their talents at the CultureFest event.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 25
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:
Human Rights & Trafficking, History
Description : Students will interview members of the community who wish to articulate their narratives about religion and human rights issues, especially those who have immigrated to the U.S. or whose family members did. Interviews will be recorded and Tri-Faith will receive copies of the recordings for use in research and possibly exhibits in their proposed "Empathy Museum." Students will present and summarize the interviews at a closing celebration at which interviewees will be present and their contributions honored.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 20
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:
Gerontology, Music/Dance
Description : Students in the Community Resources course worked with Opera Omaha and senior centers in the community.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Internship/Externship
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 1
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:
0
Topics:
Neighborhood Revitalization, Raise Awareness, Other
Description : The intern provided administrative support, assisted with the planning of the organization's first Gala, and worked with the Diamonds (youth group).