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Title

Sustaining a Successful Community Partnership: a ten year retrospective of quality practices and sustainability applied to service-learning at the Douglas County Department of Corrections

Authors

Donna Dufner, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Judith Monarrez Diaz-Kelsey, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

3-18-2015

Abstract

• One of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s three stated strategic goals is to be “…recognized for its outstanding engagement with the urban, regional, national, and global communities.”
• Starting in fall 2004 the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s (UNO) implemented a service-learning course that takes college students into the Douglas County Department of Corrections (DCDC) to teach basic computer skills to inmates. To date over 200 undergraduates and 600 inmates have completed the course.
• Quality practices (NYLC 2008) such as progress monitoring, duration and intensity, participant voice, partnerships, meaningful service, link to the curriculum, reflection, diversity, planning, and impact used to develop, implement and sustain the course over ten years will tell this story.

Comments

Presented at UNL’s Extension’s Eureka! 2015 conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE, March 18.

Recommended Citation

Dufner, Donna and Monarrez Diaz-Kelsey, Judith, "Sustaining a Successful Community Partnership: a ten year retrospective of quality practices and sustainability applied to service-learning at the Douglas County Department of Corrections" (2015). Presentations. 2.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/engagementpresentations/2