Projects Report

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:
Tell All Truth Project -001(Fall 2024): 2023-24 (3394) Social Justice City Sprouts, Malcolm X Memorial Foundation Art and Art History, Service Learning Academy (SLA) Service Learning None None Fall 2023-24 None 21 16 0 0 0 0 This project acknowledges the significance of local knowledge, community-based work, and diverse life experiences and aims to cultivate conversations beyond traditional academic discourses and typical scholarly spaces. By welcoming the insights of Omaha-based community partners as well as inputs from the general public, ENVN 4390.001 Traditional/Indirect
Law and the Black Community (Spring 2024): 2023-24 (3228) Arts, Culture and Humanities Malcolm X Memorial Foundation College of Arts and Sciences Service Learning None None Spring 2023-24 None 29 26 0 0 0 0 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
Race, Crime, and Injustice(Fall 2024): 2023-24 (3391) Educational Support Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, NOVA Treatment Community, Omaha Street School, ReConnect, Inc. College of Public Affiars and Community Service, Service Learning Academy (SLA) Service Learning None None Fall 2023-24 None 14 26 0 0 0 0 Students 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 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 vote on which local nonprofit organization presented could most benefit from UNO’s $1,000 MPI course grant based on the course project findings. CRCJ 8120.001 MPI
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