NIRSA and the Program Committee are pleased to announce that Baltimore, Maryland has been selected as the host city for the 2016 NIRSA Intramural Sports Institute! This institute will occur June 22–24 at the Embassy Suites Baltimore – Inner Harbor.
This institute is a focused professional development opportunity valuable for […]
By David Peters, Vice Chair of the Member Network and Region II Representative
You can feel it in the air—the start of another school year is here! The new term brings the return of intramural seasons, packed fitness facilities, and an array of great recreation programs on our campuses. Next up for NIRSA members is the […]
By Jen Gudaz, Associate Director of Recreational Services; Director of CFC at Cornell University and Chair of the NIRSA Member Network
Through a new partnership between the Member Network and the Conference Program Committee NIRSA members now have a second chance to have their educational sessions included in the 2016 NIRSA […]
The NIRSA Triventure is an innovative event that brings three NIRSA institutes— the NIRSA Aquatic Institute, the NIRSA Recreation Facilities Institute presented by Mondo, and the NIRSA Fitness & Wellness Institute—under the same roof. This unique event allows attendees to move freely between educational sessions—no matter what institutional […]
A lot has happened since the University of Michigan formed their department of recreational sports in 1913, and, in the past 100 years, many innovations—VHS tapes, 8-tracks, CDs, and floppy disks, to name a few—have come and gone. However, though Michigan’s Rec Sports has changed and developed in the past century, it always remained committed […]
1913 was a busy and influential year in athletics: the United States Football Association, now US Soccer, was formed; an amateur golfer won the US Open for the first time; and, more specifically to the field of recreation, The Ohio State University Department of Recreational Sports was founded on December 12, 1913, offering soccer, football, […]
