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- Educational assistance--El Salvador; Art for El Salvador (Organization); College students--Iowa--Cedar Falls--Charitable contributions; University of Northern Iowa--Students--Charitable contributions; (1)
- Feminine hygiene products--Iowa--Cedar Falls; College students--Iowa--Cedar Falls--Charitable contributions; Service learning--Iowa--Cedar Falls; (1)
- Food security--Iowa--Cedar Falls Region; (1)
- Library research--Study and teaching (Middle school)--Iowa--Cedar Falls; Library research--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Iowa--Cedar Falls; Library outreach programs--Iowa--Cedar Falls; (1)
- Service learning--Iowa--Cedar Falls; Institutional repositories--Iowa--Cedar Falls; (1)
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Research Days At Rod Library: Uni Outreach To Iowa Public And Private Schools, Chris Neuhaus, Jaycie Vos, Jess Cruz
Research Days At Rod Library: Uni Outreach To Iowa Public And Private Schools, Chris Neuhaus, Jaycie Vos, Jess Cruz
Community Engagement Celebration Day
Since 2006 the faculty librarians at Rod Library have arranged for and conducted hundreds of research day events for thousands of Iowa public and private school students. These intensive three to six hour research events include: instruction on conducting university-level research, tours of Rod Library and UNI resources, one-on-one research consultations with a faculty librarian, and for those interested in attending UNI, informational sessions with UNI professors and coaches. Thirty-two different area schools have participated in Research Days at Rod Library. Some schools such as Independence High School, Nashua-Plainfield Middle and High Schools, and Dike New Hartford Middle School have …
Red Basket Project, Brenna Wolfe
Red Basket Project, Brenna Wolfe
Community Engagement Celebration Day
March is Women’s History Month. Throughout March, Northern Iowa Feminists holds the annual collection drive called the Red Basket Project. Many homeless shelters and food banks lack these important hygiene products for women and families. Our goal is to collect menstrual products for EMBARC and Friends of the Family. The Red Basket Project is our way of giving back to the community. In 2017, we donated over 60 boxes of menstrual products to Cedar Valley Friends of the Family. In 2018, we donated over 1,200 individual products and 54 boxes to EMBARC. We cannot wait to see what 2019 will …
The Global Reach Of Uni’S Community Engagement Activities, Ellen Neuhaus
The Global Reach Of Uni’S Community Engagement Activities, Ellen Neuhaus
Community Engagement Celebration Day
The Global Reach of UNI’s Community Engagement Activities The community engagement work of the UNI campus is gathered, preserved, and showcased in UNI ScholarWorks, the institutional repository. The Rod Library’s digital scholarship unit coordinates and maintains UNI ScholarWorks. The purpose of the repository is to collect, preserve, and make available the creative and scholarly output from the University of Northern Iowa. Early in the history of the institutional repository, a section on community engagement was developed and modeled after the Community Engagement section found in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst’s repository, which highlighted its community engagement Carnegie classification. UNI also …
Food Insecurity: From Research To Action, Rachel Morgan, Jessica Haring
Food Insecurity: From Research To Action, Rachel Morgan, Jessica Haring
Community Engagement Celebration Day
Introduction: Two sections of UNI Cornerstone worked with the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, and Rod Library to gain a better understanding of food insecurity in the Cedar Valley during the academic year 2016-2017. Students engaged in research related to food insecurity, and presented informative speeches on their topics. Students then completed training at the Food Bank, and they volunteered sorting, delivering, and serving food. Students organized a campus-wide food drive, incentivizing different halls to participate and conducted a campus advocacy campaign on food insecurity. By the end of the semester, the students’ food drive had collected over 150 pounds of …
Panther Initiative For Environmental Equity And Resilience, Pieer, Catherine Zeman, Zahra Al-Khidhr, Fatimah Al-Khidhr, Wynton Karanja, Tyler Dursky, Ali Al Qismah, Jassim Alkhudhar
Panther Initiative For Environmental Equity And Resilience, Pieer, Catherine Zeman, Zahra Al-Khidhr, Fatimah Al-Khidhr, Wynton Karanja, Tyler Dursky, Ali Al Qismah, Jassim Alkhudhar
Community Engagement Celebration Day
PIEER began in the Spring of 2014 as a partnership project in environmental resilience and equity, ERE issues with the Colleges of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, CHAS RRTTC and the UNI Provost’s Office. It has continued since as a student internship and community engagement effort designed to offer PIEER interns the opportunity to explore the social/cultural, racial ethnic, technological, and equity aspects of environmental sustainability challenges. It’s goals are to expand knowledge and understand about and across ERE issues, to allow students to examine their understanding of differences and build bridges across difference, and to meaningfully engage the campus and …
Art For El Salvador, Denise Tallakson, Brianna Marvin, Maria Howard, Whitnie Hutchinson
Art For El Salvador, Denise Tallakson, Brianna Marvin, Maria Howard, Whitnie Hutchinson
Community Engagement Celebration Day
This project will showcase the work that the student organization, Art for El Salvador has done the past few years in conjunction with the non-profit organization, Art for El Salvador. The organization was brought to UNI by Maria and Niah Howard, both graduates of UNI. A student organization was formed and together the two groups have made and sold art to help provide educational needs to impoverished rural communities in El Salvador. Through the hard work of many people, Art for El Salvador actually provided the resources for a community of Casseria Mediagua to build a new middle school. The …
Center For Violence Prevention - Communities In Motion, Alan Heisterkamp, Michael Fleming
Center For Violence Prevention - Communities In Motion, Alan Heisterkamp, Michael Fleming
Community Engagement Celebration Day
Prevention is Education. Education is Prevention. The UNI Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) collaborates with and supports Iowa’s PreK-12 school districts, colleges and universities, and community agencies who serve youth and families by providing gender violence and bullying prevention training and programming, implementation strategies, on-going practice opportunities and evaluation services. Prevention strategies are delivered within the context of a multi-level and multi-systemic approach so as to maximize buy-in and support from a broad array of school and community stakeholders. The CVP’s “Community in Motion” Tour demonstrates the CVP's philosophy and approach to cultivating leadership capacity across Iowa and beyond at …