NIRSA’s newest committee gets to work in NIRSA Connect

Where do you go when you have a question about campus recreation, want to discuss a hot topic, or just want to brag about something you’re doing on your campus?

NIRSA Connect is a great online platform to collaborate with over 4,000 rec experts—and it just got even easier to engage with your colleagues. This month, NIRSA Community moderators began their leadership year and they’re excited to begin their work. Charges for this group include:

Answer questions posted in the main NIRSA community
Tag posts for easier searching later, and promote post tagging
Clean up the library and encourage others to upload documents
Share NIRSA resources with members and point them towards helpful discussion threads
Report misuse of Connect by other members to NIRSA HQ staff
Periodically post on behalf of NIRSA HQ, on request

Your NIRSA Community moderators are:

Jenny Rodgers, Clemson University (Chair)
Cassie Bishop, Central Connecticut State University
Mike Dickey, University of Kansas
Jenna Dillon, Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrew Ramirez, University of California-Davis
Bryce Starr, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Brian Stelzer, University of Nebraska

The NIRSA Community Moderator Committee is the result of rescoping the Connect Community of Practice Convener roles. After careful evaluation of user behavior in NIRSA’s Connect platform, the NIRSA Board of Directors has approved the sunsetting of the Communities of Practice concept. This will allow these communities to evolve into standard member-led communities. The volunteer convener role has been rescoped into a cohesive moderator group focused on the NIRSA Discussions Group, the place where the majority of member-to-member interactions take place. What does this mean for current Communities of Practice? Depending on the volume of posts in the past few years, each Community of Practice will either switch to a member-driven community or will be archived; previous discussions and library items will still be searchable, but no new posts can be made.

It is our hope that the NIRSA Discussions Group become even more vibrant and more of a valuable NIRSA member resource with this great group of moderators nurturing it!