Faculty and Staff Engagement Resources | Community Engagement at UNL

Engagement with our community stakeholders is fundamental to our land-grant mission. We seek to establish and nurture strong, consistent two-way communication with community members and stakeholder groups, allowing for research and learning collaborations. We aim to concentrate resources and funding to promote engagement responsive to unique local needs. Faculty can find resources below to help them in their community engagement work.

Professional Learning Resources

Engagement Collaborative

Explore articles, courses, and funding for community engagement.

Detail of a column on the south side of Pound Hall, surrounded by the greenery of trees.

Community Engagement Events

Engagement Collaborative

A collection of events focused on community engagement from UNL and other Big 10 Universities.

Two dozen or so people sit in a circle playing a traditional Indigenous guessing game called a hand game at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.

Broader Impacts Partner Database

Office of Research and Innovation

Explore partnership opportunities with organizations that are eager to collaborate with UNL faculty, staff, and students.

Graduates students in the FACT studio listen to feedback during their final project reviews.

Community-University Partnership Intake Form

Engagement Collaborative

If you are a faculty/staff member looking to partner with a community or other UNL facutly/staff member, please fill out this survey Completing the survey does not guarantee a match can be made.

A man and woman, seated at a table, smile for a photograph during the 2024 Nebraska Small Business Conference in Lincoln.

Engagement and Outreach Map

Engagement Collaborative

The Engagement and Outreach map is an interactive system designed to illustrate the powerful stories of UNL's current and ongoing projects and activities centered around outreach, service, and engagement activities.

Community-UNL Opportunity Virtual Open Houses

Engagement Collaborative

Events that allow for faculty and staff to meet with community partners for research and service-learning opportunities.

Public engagement with communities has been a focus for regional flood planning.

Broader Impacts Resources from Research and Innovation

Office of Research and Innovation

Information, checklists, and tools to maximize the societal impact of your work for your NSF application.

More than 260 faculty, university and community leaders work together at tables in the Nebraska Union during the Research and Innovation Convening on May 7. The strategic planning summit launched an effort to define research priorities for the university.

All Things Nebraska

Nebraska Extension

All Things Nebraska is an online platform designed to support researchers in accessing, analyzing, and visualizing data about Nebraska communities.

Engagement Scholarship Consortium

The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, is composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state-public and private institutions. Our goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.