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UNO Launches Office of Engagement

The new office will provide strategy and direction for existing campus engagement efforts as well as expand efforts to enhance opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and campus partners to make an impact in our community.

  • published: 2022/10/12
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An orange sign in the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center that reads "Collaboration"

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) has announced the creation of a new Office of Engagement that will serve to connect student, faculty, staff, and community-focused efforts taking place on and through the UNO campus to leverage more strategically one of the university’s greatest strengths.

A formal announcement of the creation of the Office of Engagement was made by UNO Chancellor Joanne Li, Ph.D., CFA, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, during an event spotlighting “Career Connect,” a recently launched university effort that leverages community relationships with business and not-for-profit organizations to offer students guaranteed opportunities for paid internships.

“As an urban metropolitan university, community engagement is central to all we do,” Chancellor Li said. “Today, we are announcing a new chapter in fostering meaningful and impactful community engagement and partnerships.”

The Office of Engagement will be overseen by Sara Woods, who was named UNO’s chief engagement officer earlier this year. Woods has served as director of the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center since 2014, a position she will continue to hold as she takes on the new role.

“I am truly honored and excited to lead the Office of Engagement, which will be dedicated to ensuring UNO is best positioned to serve the critical needs and greatest opportunities facing our community,” Woods said. “With a focus on communication, partnership, and UNO’s metropolitan mission, the Office of Engagement will facilitate the growth of engaged research, learning, and service across the UNO campus.”

The Office of Engagement will provide strategy and direction for existing units such as the Service Learning Academy, Volunteer and Civic Engagement Programs, and Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, as well as expand efforts like the Community Engagement Partnership Initiative and Community Engaged Scholars Transcript Designation.

Woods said that the new structure is the successful culmination of decades of community-engaged efforts that have shaped UNO’s identity as Omaha’s university. In addition to the construction of the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, the first building of its kind in the world at the time, UNO is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation with its official Community Engagement Classification and, in 2014, UNO was recognized among more than 800 universities by the White House for community engagement effort that spurred economic opportunity.

“[We] will work to ensure that individuals, organizations, and institutions far beyond the physical boundaries of our campus can connect more easily with the extensive knowledge, talent, student energy, information, and events that can be found at UNO any day.”

A new resource page for the Office of Engagement is also available for any students, faculty, staff, and community members who would like to partner and support any of the office’s initiatives. You can learn more and meet the Office of Engagement team by visiting engage.unomaha.edu.

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Located in one of America’s best cities to live, work and learn, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is Nebraska’s premier metropolitan university. With more than 15,000 students enrolled in 200-plus programs of study, UNO is recognized nationally for its online education, graduate education, military friendliness and community engagement efforts. Founded in 1908, UNO has served learners of all backgrounds for more than 100 years and is dedicated to another century of excellence both in the classroom and in the community.

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