Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2016
Publication Title
Metropolitan Universities
Volume
27
Issue
3
Abstract
Universities throughout the United States operate engagement centers to extend campus faculty, staff and student resources to their communities. In 2014, the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) opened the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (Weitz CEC): a privately funded $24 million, 70,000 square foot facility located in the middle of its original Dodge Street campus. In addition to offices for its service learning and community service enterprises, the CEC houses over thirty university and community organizations and offers extensive space for meetings, dialogue and collaboration. This paper will discuss its strategic and programmatic origins, unique design, and lessons learned in developing and operating the center.
Recommended Citation
Woods, Sara; Reed, B. J.; and Smith-Howell, Deborah, "Vol. 27 No. 3 (Autumn 2016), DOI 10.18060/21388 Building an Engagement Center through Love of Place: The Story of the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center" (2016). Scholarship of Metropolitan Mission. 5.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/scholarshipofengagement/5
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