This year's ceremony will be head on April 26, 2024, 2:00 to 4:00 pm with a reception immediately following in Strauss. The website will be updated with the 2024 student award winners one week prior to the event.
👉Please encourage faculty and staff to join us to celebrate these exemplary students!
Faculty reports on Fall 2023 FDFs and FDFs taken during the 2022-23 academic year are due to Academic Affairs by April 30. Reports should be 1-2 pages and include a comparison of the actual activities with those outlined in the proposal as well as ways in which the FDF contributed to the faculty member’s intellectual growth.
College Teaching and Research Awards
Recommendations for college teaching and research/creative activity awards are due April 1. Please send recommendations for Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award recipients to Anthony Flott. Recommendations for the college research and creative activity awards should be sent to Kristin Girten. Honorees will be recognized at Faculty Honors Convocation in the fall.
Important Dates
Apr 1: Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award recipients due to Anthony Flott
Apr 1: College research and creative activity award recipients due to Kristin Girten
Apr 1: 2024-25 Faculty Workload Plans
Apr 22: Summer 2023 PT faculty signed contracts, E-PAF/PAFs for new/rehires, and the PT spreadsheet due to Academic Affairs via SharePoint
Apr 30: Faculty Development Fellowship (FDF) reports for Fall 2023 due to Academic Affairs from Colleges
Teaching a Service Learning Course
With summer and fall enrollment open, the Service Learning Academy encourages any faculty members interested in teaching a service learning course to contact us at unosla@unomaha.edu or 402-554-6019!
To learn more about service learning, our priority areas, types of projects, past projects, and the impact service learning has had on the UNO campus, visit our website at sla.unomaha.edu.
Join the Service Learning Academy for our annual Service Learning Seminar, July 15-19, 2024! This 4.5-day interactive workshop brings together teams of P-12 educators, UNO faculty members, after-school facilitators, and community partners with the shared goal of developing collaborative service learning courses to implement within the next 18 months. Participants will learn more about service learning, connect with community partners, and participate in a well-developed service learning course.
Award-winning author Rebecca Clarren will discuss her celebrated new book, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, delving into questions of how to face the stories we tell about our families and our nations, how to grapple with the legacy of the past through a Jewish lens, and what it means to consider history with both truth and empathy.
Join Samuel Bak and Chief Curator Alexandra Cardon for a discussion on the museum's inaugural year, featuring insights into Bak's artistic journey and an examination of select works from the collection.
Interested in holding a meeting at Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center?
The Museum offers both a classroom and gallery for meetings and lectures free of charge to UNO-affiliated groups and units, local nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions for the purpose of community engagement, dialogue, and discussion.
There are three open positions for AmeriCorps VISTAs. There is a quicker timeline for this round, so it would be greatly appreciated if you could share these opportunities with anyone who might be interested.
April 10: Assistant and Associate Deans and Vice Chancellors meeting
April 12:EPAC Meeting
April 19: Academic Assessment Committee Meeting (10:30 - 12:00)
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