UNL's Engagement and Outreach Map
Definition of a community partner includes, but is not limited to: children and their families (including students, schools, and childcare providers), teachers, and administrators; business professionals; industry representatives; local and state government officials; non-profits; youth/community organizations; commodity groups; and the general public.
Questions about the project:
- Does your research project involve a community partner?
- If yes, it goes on the map!
- Examples of these kinds of projects
- Parents and Teachers as Partners
- On-Farm Research
- Defend the Core, Grow the Core
- Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape
- UCARE, FYRE, or undergrad highest distinction projects with a community partner(s)
- Examples that do not go on the map
- Secondary data analysis of community partner data (e.g., school/business data)
- Discovery research funded by a community partner (e.g., Cattlemen’s Association)
Grey area projects that do go on the map
Public lectures on or off campus
Events on or off-campus open to the public, that involve UNL faculty, staff, and students like concerts, research slams, data walks, community forums, and symposia.
Do you have a community deliverable that doesn’t exactly match these examples like a podcast, website, practitioner or lay-person publication? We would love to showcase it on the Community Resources Database. Please fill out the following form: CRDB Survey
Instructions on what teaching projects count for the map: https://engage.unl.edu/what-teaching-projects-belong-unl-engagement-map/