What Scholarship and Research-Engaged Projects belong on UNL's Engagement and Outreach Map?

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Activities focused on collaborative knowledge generation, such as faculty and student research or creative work that aspires to be co-created with community organizations, schools, nonprofits, or industry partners, rather than conducted on them, to promote the public good. 

Questions about the project: 

  • Does your research project involve a community partner? (see definition of community partner below) 
    • If yes, it goes on the map! 
    • Examples of these kinds of projects 
      1. Parents and Teachers as Partners 
      2. On-Farm Research 
      3. Defend the Core, Grow the Core 
      4. Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape 
      5. 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, but are categorized as Targeted Outreach Projects

    • 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 Academic Engagement and Experiential Learning projects belong on the map

Instructions on what Targeted Outreach projects belong on the map

Instructions on what Public Service projects belong on the engagement map

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.