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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| GARY SOTO's Writing Workshop and Poetry Reading (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2839) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Writers Collective | Thompson Learning Community | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Award-winning author, GARY SOTO, will facilitate a creative writing workshop and poetry reading at the University of Nebraska Omaha! There were two parts of this event including a workshop and a poetry reading. | |||
| NWC Youth Laureate (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (2842) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Nebraska Writers Collective | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NWC teamed up with different individuals, including a UNO staff member, to play an active role in their Youth Laureate. | |||
| Music with Veterans (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3040) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 3 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UNO students partnered with US Army veterans from the Council Bluffs area to teach them basic guitar lessons. This project focused on both guitar basics and the health benefits of music. Traditional project MUS 3630.002 | |||||||
| College and Career Exploration (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2848) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | UNMC Munroe Meyer Institute | Art and Art History, Student Life and Wellbeing | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Develop./Physical Disability | MMI students work with UNO for college and career exploration. There were 37 MMI participants. | ||
| PUBLIC SPEAKING PHILANTHROPY(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3042) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | None | 25 | 300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus, they chose for the informative speech. The nonprofits they choose will have a civic engagement focus. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to receive the $1000 grant. MPI CMST 1110.016 | |||||
| Extended Techniques in Piano Performance(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3045) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Aksarben Village Senior Living, Dial Senior Living, Immanuel Memory Care | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 8 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UNO students partner with Omaha South High School and Central High School students. UNO students learn and apply the knowledge on extended techniques in piano and then make a presentation to high school students. They also serve the community by playing music pieces at Immanuel Memory Center and Aksarben Senior Living Center. P-16 MUS 115L, 215L, 315L, 415L | ||||
| Principles of Marketing(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3061) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | freedomtainment | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 26 | 780 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UNO students will provide marketing support to local non-profit for the semester. The Spring 2023 nonprofit students are working with is called Freedomtainment. Traditional MKT 3310.820 | ||||
| Historically Marginalized Composers(Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3060) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Aksarben Village Senior Living, Dial Senior Living, Omaha Public Schools | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 12 | 228 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | This course is a study of the physiological and acoustical properties of the vocal mechanism and of the various techniques used in developing the singing voice. Also, it applies knowledge acquired about the voice through studio teaching and observations of other voice teachers. (Cross-listed with MUS 8616). The course designed for UNO students, so they could train their mentor skills while teaching Central High School students, and for the school students this partnership is an opportunity to perform and train their presentation skills. P-16 MUS 4610/ MUS 8616 | ||||
| MMI and Omaha Symphony Joint Composition: 2022-23 (3024) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | We are partnering with the Omaha Symphony on Thursday, April 20th between 12:00 PM and 1:30 PM. We currently have 116 reserved for our usual time/programming. space for a small ensemble playing and students then playing instruments and creating a joint composition. They will bring 4-7 musicians. | |||||||
| ERC Presentation Human Rights in P-12 Education (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3027) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Education Rights Counsel (ERC) | Teacher Education | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Human Rights & Trafficking | The course examines the intersection of human rights and P-12 education and prepares individuals to effectively work with and advocate for children and adolescents in educational settings. Students completing the course will be able to 1) demonstrate an increased understanding of fundamental human rights with a specific emphasis on education rights and the human rights of children and adolescents 2) create learning environments that elevate human rights in educational settings and 3) design developmentally appropriate instruction for children and adolescents on varied human rights topics. One of ERC's legal experts co-taught for one of the course days related to education law for 45 minutes - no cost. The value of ERC expertise of 112 dollars (hourly rate of 150). TED 8280 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN P-12 EDUCATION | ||
| WhyArts and UNO Transitions Social Competencies (Spring 2023): 2022-23 (3030) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | WhyArts | Transitions Program | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Inclusion, Diversity & Equity | WhyArts partners with the Transitions Program providing opportunities for autistic young adults to practice and enhance social competencies in structured and unstructured group events on and off the UNO campus. This partnership began in 2015 and is ongoing at the beginning of each semester with WhyArts facilitating a session at the beginning of each semester (1 hour). The partnership supports UNO Transition's participants on the autism spectrum and those UNO students in learning and other meaningful experiences. CEPI does not account for projects prior to 2015 so this project entry begins in 2016 within the system. Each semester there are 3 to 4 graduate students and 4-5 undergraduate students involved. | ||
| Band Buddies (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2802) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 99 | 594 | 0 | 7 | 35 | 1 | Education | Students from Western Hills Elementary School will visit UNO to participate in a variety of music-related experiences. They will observe the UNO Symphonic Wind Ensemble, discuss marching band basics with a UNO student majoring in music education, and be paired up with a member of the UNO marching band to participate in marching band rehearsal. P-16 service learning project MUS 2750.001/3610.001/4160.001 |