Community Partnerships - Progress

Kids doing a variety of activities at the SRWC Junior Rebels Camp.
Engelstad scholars participate at Spread the Word Nevada
Child and adult working in a garden
60th Anniversary Banners on academic mall.
Collaborating

K-12

0.64
DIVERSITY OF PIPELINE PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS*

2025 GOAL: 0.6
2030 GOAL: 0.6

*The diversity of participants in pipeline programs (i.e., dual enrollment, Paraprofessional Pathway Project, alternate route to licensure, residency programs, traditional educator preparation programs in teaching, school counseling, school social work, and educational leadership). Diversity defined as % BIPOC to keep at single variable.

Community Needs & Challenges

Solve Community Problems

A conceptual model was developed as to how to engage the community with a transdisciplinary approach that ultimately focuses on developing practice based research networks in the community. Addressing homelessness was the community problem chosen to address this year after adopting the twelve grand challenges of social work.

Framed through the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare (AASWSW), this subcommittee works “to champion social progress powered by science."

  • Procured another GA and finished UNLV mapping 12 Grand Challenges to UNLV expert list.
  • Continued to work on food insecurity app and consult legal regarding its development.
  • Dr. Craig and Associates will continue on the Continuum of Care board as the university representative for southern Nevada.
  • Hired two assistant professors in the school of social work who are experts on homelessness. Two projects with the city of Henderson and an agency addressing homeless in Las Vegas has been developed, and one of the Assistant Professors has applied for access to the HMIS data. Both are also sitting on several sub-committees for the COC.
  • Continued to develop community partnerships and develop white papers for publication.
  • Four different annotated bibliographies have been developed in the last year on the following subjects with aspirations to develop into systematic literature reviews for publications. The four subjects are: Domestic Violence (DV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Homelessness among people of color, Urban resiliency in the Last 20 years, and Trauma in Journalistic Reporting.
  • Presented at two national and one regional conferences on model developed and activities generated for this sub-committee.
  • Continue collaborations with Urban Affairs schools/departments on Youth Homeless Summit (third summit was in November, 2019) turn white papers into publication.
  • Continue socialization of the academic community to the problem-based network model.
  • Dr. Craig contributed chapter to the Book: Healing Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.
Led by Carleton Craig, a professor and director at the UNLV School of Social Work.

*No data July 2024

*No data July 2024

Beginning July 2025, funding acquired for homelessness, poverty, and food insecurity will be an additional metric for this area.

Programming

Students standing next to a tree
3.29
Student Athlete GPA - 2023-2024

2025 GOAL: 3.0
2030 GOAL: 3.0

8
Student Athlete K-12 Community Engagement Activities

2025 GOAL: 37
2030 GOAL: 40

*Number of attendees at Barrick Museum of Art, Performing Arts Center, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University Libraries Events, and Barrick Lecture Series (does not include Athletic, TMC, Cox, or SBS events)

**Events held at TMC/Allegiant/Cox

***Through Continuing Education/Educational Outreach

***Through Continuing Education/Educational Outreach

***Through Continuing Education/Educational Outreach

Stakeholder Engagement

Communications

87%
UNLV MAGAZINE READER ENGAGEMENT

2025 GOAL: 85%
2030 GOAL: 85%

8.6M
REACH ON SOCIAL MEDIA

2025 GOAL: 8.8M
2030 GOAL: 10M

53.9%
OPEN RATE FOR REBEL IMPACT

2025 GOAL: 46%
2030 GOAL: 48%

$193M
MEDIA VALUE OF PUBLICITY

2025 GOAL: $184M
2030 GOAL: $225M

400
PROACTIVE MEDIA PITCHES

2025 GOAL: 450
2030 GOAL: 575

2,253
PROMOTIONAL CLIPS

2025 GOAL: 2,301
2030 GOAL: 4,300

10.7%
UNLV Social Media Engagement

2025 GOAL: 6%
2030 GOAL: 6%

54.5%
UNLV.edu Engagement Rate

2025 GOAL: 54.5%
2030 GOAL: 56%

21,408,140
Page Views

2025 GOAL: 21,000,00
2030 GOAL: 22,000,00

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UNLV Achieves National Community Engagement Distinction

Newest Carnegie Foundation recognition comes just one year after UNLV earns “very high research activity” status.

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