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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| Civil Justice(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3047) | Social Justice | Spark CDI | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will understand the role that civil engineers have on community by exploring the history of redlining in Omaha. Students will be digitalizing old maps to research about the history of redlining especially towards the region of North Omaha and freeway 75 which created a visible redline that segregated community. Effects of north freeway built by white civic leaders from US transport department which teared apart black neighborhoods, demolishing entire homes, business and other resourceful institutions. Traditional CIVE 102.001 | ||||
| DEAI Solutions for minimizing risk(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3051) | Social Justice | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 18 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UNO students will aggregate, analyze data from Health organization in collaboration with Inclusive Communities. Students will analyze data obtained from major hospitals in the city that includes patient population they are serving where the focus will be on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion components. At the end of the semester, students will present their findings from the data and provide recommendations that Healthcare organizations can take to improve the DEAI within their work. Traditional LAWS 4410.001 | |||||
| 3 Days of Service: 2022-23 (3068) | Social Justice | Abide Omaha | Volunteer and Civic Engagement Programs | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 Days of Service provides an extended opportunity for the UNO campus to give back to the community. From October 1st thru the 16th, there will be food donation boxes located around campus. On October 17th, there is the opportunity to participate in the North Omaha Legacy Tour to see and learn about your community. Finally, on October 18th, 60 Minutes of Service will be packing the collected food drive items | |||
| Linguistic Human Rights in Education: 2022-23 (3025) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Other | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | invited speaker from ERC and a tour + discussion of the Nobody’s Listening exhibition at UNO gallery in partnership with the Fried Academy about the Yazidi genocide. (the largest Yazidi community in the U.S. lives in Nebraska) | |||||||
| Leadership in Early Childhood Education (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3029) | Educational Support | Education Rights Counsel (ERC) | Teacher Education | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | This course seeks to prepare candidates with leadership skills in the early childhood field that will empower them to initiate and implement changes in programs serving young children and families. Candidates will explore and apply frameworks of leadership and analyze policy, governance, and power structures that can impact change. Candidates will also learn effective advocacy skills to positively influence policies and practices in program and governance structures. Lastly, candidates will examine approaches for developing new leaders in early childhood education through reflective supervision and mentorship. TED 8880 | ||
| 2023 7 Days of Service: 2022-23 (3032) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 25 | 350 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The UNO community (students, faculty, and staff) and community members/organizations are invited to participate in serving the Omaha community in the areas of Health, International Service, Environment, Education, and Social Justice during 7 Days of Service! There will be various volunteer opportunities on-site at the organization, remotely, and on campus. | ||||||
| Collaborative Interns Legal Aid of Nebraska: 2022-23 (2841) | Social Justice | Legal Aid of Nebraska | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | None | 2 | 720 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | UNO students hired as Collaborative interns are matched with community organizations, working 10 hours a week for that organization in the community. Students are paid through the grant-funded program. Nonprofits coordinate meaningful work for interns to benefit the student experience in different ways. Students typically intern during the fall and spring semesters and may serve the same organization for more than one academic year. Each unique student that works as a Collaborative intern with this specific community partner is identified within this project. | ||
| Race Psychology (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3087) | Social Justice | Psychology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 31 | 496 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will work in groups (or independently) and partner with a local nonprofit organization to learn about their efforts to combat the effects of racism (i.e., redlining, mass incarceration, food deserts, inequitable public education, predatory lending, maternal mortality, and voter suppression) or any other “ism” covered in class. Students will research and inform fellow groups on the nonprofit organization’s history, significance, goals/mission statement, rationale, stakeholders and targeted groups, events, program activities, planned outcomes, clients, staffing, management plan, financial support/budget, and their personal experience volunteering at the organization. Each student is expected to volunteer at least five hours of community service to the selected organization from the list provided. Lastly, students will vote on which local nonprofit organization presented could most benefit from UNO’s $1,000 MPI course grant based on the course project findings. MPI PSYC 3250.850 | |||||
| Race, Crime, and Justice (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3090) | Social Justice | Yates Community Center, Educational Community Partnership ECP | Criminology and Criminal Justice, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 10 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will have a semester project focused on a topic area related to redlining and criminal justice. They will then locate an organization that is focused on addressing this specific area. For example, victimization, diversion/prevention, or reentry (criminal justice related). The students groups will then present on these organizations and the class will decide with organization will receive the $1000 grant. MPI CRCJ 8120.001 | ||||
| Omaha Redline Multimedia(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3091) | Social Justice | Communication, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 14 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will research, collect data, interview, capture audio, and video for a news feature story regarding the impacts of Redlining. The final product created by students will be a multimedia news package. Traditional JMC 3030.001 | |||||
| CROSS-SECTOR COLLAB LEADERSHIP: 2022-23 (3112) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 13 | 156 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will explore overarching topic of affordable housing (with the specific topic of Greenlining) to help apply course concepts in a specific context. We are collaborating with the non-profit organization, Front Porch Investments, which will be allocating millions of dollars in funding to improve areas within Omaha that have experienced the negative impact of redlining practices. Direct | |||||||
| The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3095) | Social Justice | Film Streams | Goodrich Scholarship Program, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 20 | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Goodrich students will facilitate a partnership with Film Streams for the purpose of hosting a public film screening. Traditional PSYC 9050.860 | ||||
| Omaha Table Talk: Preserving LGTBAIA2 History (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2738) | Social Justice | Inclusive Communities | UNO Libraries | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | Queer Table Talk in partnerhsip with OutNebraska centered on how to preserve LGBTQIA2S+ history specifically in Nebraska. Hosted in CEC Space. Panelists included Amy Schindler, archivist at UNO’s Queer Archives, Jordan Miller who is a Collections Registrar at History Nebraska, Sarah Phelps, Executive Director of Owlish and moderated by Abbi Swatsworth, Executive Director of OutNebraska. Panelists discussed the importance preserving stories from the LGBTQIA2+ community and the ways in which language surrounding the LGBTQIA2+ community has changed over time. The afternoon concluded with panelists encouraging the audience to truly listen to the stories of those around them because history is happening now | |||
| UNO Dialogue Project: Voter Advocacy (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2739) | Social Justice | Inclusive Communities | Gender and Sexuality Resource Center | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | Conversation in partnership with Jessi Hitchens and the UNO Gender and Sexuality resource center tackling the issue of voting and voting access, specifically among young people. Panelists included Nate Johnson (UNO Student), Tori Simms (UNO Student), and Toni Monette (League of Women Voters). Panelists discussed ways in which young people can participate in voter advocacy for themselves and networks. The discussion ultimately ended with folks strategizing how to further this conversation and get more college students activated in democratic processes. | |||
| Omaha Table Talk: Celebrating Native and Indigenous Cultures without Appropriating (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2742) | Social Justice | Inclusive Communities | Tribal Management and Emergency Services | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Community-oriented lecture/event | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | Omaha Table Talk centered on Native and Indigenous identities. Hosted event in CEC space. Panelists included Christina Running Hawk Ellison of the Lakota Oglala Sioux, Jordan Zendejas of the Umo Ho Tribe of Nebraska, Grace Johnson of the Oglala Lakota, and moderated Echohawk Lefthand of the Diné Tribe. Panelists discussed concerns around the appropriation of native and indigenous cultures, specifically addressing the importance of medicines and their sustainability, missing, and murdered Indigenous women, and mascots. The afternoon concluded with panelists encouraging the audience to learn about native and Indigenous history and culture. They reminded the audience that it is okay to appreciate the culture and heritage of native and Indigenous peoples without appropriating and changing the narrative. | |||
| Durango Days (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2732) | Educational Support, Social Justice | Coalition Rx, Elevate Omaha Inc, Inclusive Communities, Learning for ALL, NAMI Nebraska, The Wellbeing Partners, WhyArts | Maverick Food Pantry, Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | Other | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | CEC Building Partner Organizations interacted with hundreds of UNO students, allowing them to learn more about volunteer opportunities and needs in the community. Organizations were able to share their missions and activities in order for students to think about how they can get involved. Organizations reported that students took the information, and many see opportunities for follow-up engagement. | ||
| African American Psychology (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2790) | Social Justice | Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands, Culxr House, Urban League of Nebraska | Psychology, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 35 | 385 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Inclusion, Diversity & Equity | The purpose of this project is for UNO college students to develop their understanding of African American psychology through the student philanthropy model of service learning. UNO students are seeking organizations that are Black-led and Black-focused. Students will work with select community partners during the semester for their final course project. With this project, UNO students will be required to volunteer for a minimum of 5 hours and do something tangible in the community. Volunteer opportunities will be based on the needs of the organization. Students will be learning about service leadership and will present how they used leadership/course content in their service work. For the final presentation, students will do their own independent research into the organization and present that along with their experiences volunteering for the organization of their choice. At the end of the semester, students will vote for one organization to receive the $1000 grant. MPI service learning course PSYC 4150.850 | ||
| Collaborative Interns Coalition Rx (2658) | Social Justice | Coalition Rx | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | None | 3 | 1,080 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | UNO students hired as Collaborative interns are matched with community organizations, working 10 hours a week for that organization in the community. Students are paid through the grant-funded program. Nonprofits coordinate meaningful work for interns to benefit the student experience in different ways. Students typically intern during the fall and spring semesters and may serve the same organization for more than one academic year. Each unique student that works as a Collaborative intern with this specific community partner is identified within this project. |