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For our community partners, collaborating with the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) means working together to educate our future community leaders and promoting a greater good in order to meet community needs.

Service learning is an experiential method of teaching. Collaborative partnerships between faculty, students, and community organizations create projects that are tightly linked to course content and promote academic learning while meeting the needs of the community. Reflection activities before, during, and after each experience (project) facilitate critical thinking and problem-solving. Community partners become “teachers of context,” by sharing the perspective of constituencies in the community that they represent, thus expanding students’ world views.

The UNO Service Learning Academy develops and maintains relationships with the Greater Omaha community, as well as government entities and others who serve the good of the community. This liaison function stays abreast of community trends, collaborations, resources, and needs while serving as a bridge between scholarship and community. Contact the Service Learning Academy for assistance.

Benefits to Community Partners

As a community partner, your organization:

  • Provides additional resources and information to community organizations
  • Helps students become invested in their community and in the particular partner organization (civic attitudes)
  • Helps community members to value youth as contributors
  • Recognition of projects in local/social media
  • Nominations for ServeNebraska Awards
  • Nominations for Regional Awards
  • Support for other recognitions/grant applications

Additional benefits to organizations and the community:

  • Fills gaps in community resources
  • Develops sustainable relationships among all players so that collaboration can be more fluid in the future
  • Increased exposure to more people about your organization and your work

Connecting with UNO for Service Learning Opportunities

If you are an area community organization, government agency, small business, or P-16 educator interested in exploring how to partner with a service learning course, please contact us.

The Service Learning Academy is excited to work with you to explore and develop partnerships to help meet community-identified needs and develop service learning courses.

Developing Partnerships

The Service Learning Academy will provide individual introduction for UNO faculty, P-16 partners, and community/government entity partners as a way to facilitate partnerships.

Connect to UNO via Presence

Presence is UNO’s official one-stop shop for students, faculty, and staff to easily find information on all of the involvement opportunities available to the UNO community. With information about the 150+ student organizations, 20+ campus departments, and many service opportunities in the Omaha community, Presence is a great tool to use when you’re looking to get connected.

Presence is great for organizations. Student organizations and departments use Presence to communicate internally among members and share information externally with the UNO community.

For more ways to connect with student volunteers please visit cec.unomaha.edu/contact.

Eight Standards of Service Learning

The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) has established a set of eight standards as a guide to quality service learning. While they are targeted to the K-12 education audience, they are adaptable to the higher education environment and to the understanding of community partners, as well. Learn more about these standards.

1. Meaningful service
2. Link to curriculum
3. Reflection
4. Diversity
5. Youth Voice
6. Partnerships
7. Progress monitoring
8. Duration and intensity

Community Partners

  • Service Learning Academy
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Service Learning 101

Interested in finding out more about service learning? Contact us at unosla@unomaha.edu to learn about future dates.

Additional Resources

  • Service Learning Academy on Facebook
  • P-16 Initiative
  • SLA Newsletters
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