Central to UNO’s mission and strategic plan is community engagement.
2025-26 Campus Community Engagement
The following represents data for the 2025-26 fiscal year and/or summer 2025, fall 2025, and spring 2026 terms. Institutional community engagement numbers are coordinated through the Office of Engagement and in collaboration with many other UNO departments.
346 Community Partners
Nonprofit and community organizations, businesses, government agencies, and P-12 schools that partner with UNO.
10,032 UNO Students
Engaging with the community in and outside of the classroom.
- 7,498 UNO students in service learning and community-based learning courses.
- 2,534 UNO students engaged in co-curricular service activities. Students in co-curricular engagement also represent student-athletes, Goodrich Scholars, TRIO students, Engaged Scholars (CES), The Collaborative Interns, and students participating in campus-wide volunteer events.
518 Engaged Courses
UNO courses with a service learning and/or community-based learning component.
UNO Students Volunteering
- Student-athletes volunteered 4,000 + hours with local community and nonprofit organizations.
- Student interns for The Collaborative volunteered 4,680 hours with local community and nonprofit organizations.
- Students participating in campus-wide volunteer and civic engagement activities volunteered 3,456 hours with local community and nonprofit organizations.
- Students involved in UNO's TRIO program volunteered 2,523 hours with local community and nonprofit organizations.
- Goodrich Scholarship Program students volunteered 9,240 hours with local community and nonprofit organizations.
- Students who graduated with the Community Engaged Scholars Transcript Designation (CES) volunteered 6,444 hours with local community and nonprofit organizations. CES students may also be part of one or more of UNO's Learning Communities.
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (Weitz CEC) Building Impact
37 community partners with office space in the Weitz CEC.
$1.1 Million in estimated value of community benefit to organizations that use the Weitz CEC for meetings and events.
6,418 events and meetings in the Weitz CEC.
86,168 Facility visitors to the Weitz CEC.