Officially expanded in 2020, UNO's Service Learning Academy Faculty Fellows program has dedicated faculty members in each college to enhance service learning course offerings, research, and creative activity efforts.
Faculty Fellows identify college-specific goals to increase service learning and community engagement teaching and research efforts within their respective colleges.
Here's a list of the current faculty fellows.
Anne Herman, Ph.D.
Instructor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship
COLLEGE: Business Administration
Deanna House, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
COLLEGE: Information Science and Technology
Laurel Sariscsany, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
COLLEGE: Public Affairs and Community Service
Madina Djuraeva, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
COLLEGE: Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Karen Murch-Shafer, Ph.D.
Exploratory Studies Director and Lecturer
COLLEGE: Arts and Sciences
Mary Perkinson, D.M.A.
Distinguished Associate Professor
COLLEGE: Communication, Fine Arts and Media
Faculty Fellows
Faculty Fellows work to increase the community engagement for colleges by:
- Increasing bidirectional connections between colleges, SLA, and community engagement efforts
- Serving as a peer facilitator to increase experiential learning and community engagement opportunities within each academic college
- Recruiting diverse new faculty to SL teaching
Nominations/Selections
Faculty in this role are nominated and selected through the UNO SLA with guidance from each college's Dean. Faculty in this role will:
- Receive a stipend for their participation ($5000 total)
- Work collaboratively with SLA staff to strengthen and to expand service learning/community engagement connections and partnerships within their specific colleges
- Serve as a liaison/resource for faculty/staff in colleges to initiate, strengthen, and/or expand service learning and community engagement instruction and scholarship
- Serve 10 months (October-July)