Join NIRSA Ideas in Motion Virtual Roundtables! These live, unrecorded discussions are a space for collegiate recreation professionals to connect, share ideas, and tackle challenges together. Held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, topics rotate to keep conversations timely and relevant. Join live—engage, share, and grow.

Join NIRSA Ideas in Motion Virtual Roundtables! These live, unrecorded discussions are a space for collegiate recreation professionals to connect, share ideas, and tackle challenges together. Held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, topics rotate to keep conversations timely and relevant. Join live—engage, share, and grow.

The Student Staff Development Committee invites you to our next Ideas in Motion Roundtable, where we’ll dive into the art of impactful All-Staff Trainings! This is your chance to exchange ideas, share success stories, and brainstorm ways to make your trainings more engaging and effective. Let’s collaborate, inspire, and take our staff development to the next level—together!

Join NIRSA Ideas in Motion Virtual Roundtables! These live, unrecorded discussions are a space for collegiate recreation professionals to connect, share ideas, and tackle challenges together.

Held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, topics rotate to keep conversations timely and relevant. Join live—engage, share, and grow.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020, university campuses began to close or move into virtual operations to attempt to prevent the spread of the virus around the United States, pausing all co-curricular learning opportunities at the campuses, including club sports for the estimated 2 million students who participate in these programs annually. Using systems theory as a theoretical framework, this study, funded by a NIRSA Research Grant, attempts to determine the impact that the pandemic had on club sports participation and operations, both in the 2020-2021 academic year when campuses were first learning to operate with the virus, and over the full four academic year period from 2019-2020 to 2022-2023. The study collected data from club sports departments at 107 institutions nationwide via an electronic Qualtrics survey administered from May to July, 2024. Take away lessons for club sports, collegiate recreation, and student affairs professionals for future events and crises that disrupt normal operations, including severe weather, violence and terrorist acts, and mass illness, include insuring that students feel safe while participating in the immediate aftermath of a disruption, and not being concerned about temporarily suspending operations to respond to the crisis.

Learning Outcomes

1. Participants will be able to identify the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on club sport participation, both during the 2020-21 academic year, and over the full four-year 2019-20 to 2022-23 time period 

2. Participants will be able to identify the impact that various different restrictions used to mitigate COVID-19 had on participation levels, both in the short term and full four-year period. 

3. Participants will be able to identify strategies to use when future collegiate recreation programming is interrupted due to severe weather, forest fires, and acts of mass violence. 

Continuing Education Credits

Participants who complete this program will be eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credits in either the Core Student Affairs Educator Certification (CSAEd™) or Certified Student Affairs Educator-Campus Recreation (CSAEd-CR™).  

NIRSA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd™). NIRSA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program. 

This webinar qualifies for the amount and types of CE credit listed below: 

• CE Credit value: 1
• CE Credit Type: Core, Campus Recreation Specialty
• CE Credit Domain: Crisis & Risk Management

How to get CE credits for attending this course:

1. Attend the live webinar or watch the webinar recording once published to this page
2. Upon completion, submit a program evaluation at this link
3. Within two weeks of completing the survey, you should receive a certificate of completion via email

Join NIRSA Ideas in Motion Virtual Roundtables! These live, unrecorded discussions are a space for collegiate recreation professionals to connect, share ideas, and tackle challenges together. Held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, topics rotate to keep conversations timely and relevant. Join live—engage, share, and grow.

Leaders from the NIRSA Board, NSC Board, NIRSA Foundation Board as well as the Member Network, Assembly and NIRSA Executive Director will share program accomplishments and financial results from 2024 and priorities for 2025 that advance NIRSA’s strategic framework and deliver value to members; the member necrology and retiree report will also be presented. This session is for members only.

Calling all go-getters and game-changers!  Learn about volunteering with NIRSA, the NIRSA Foundation, and the NIRSA Championship Series! Join us to explore opportunities to shape the 2025-2026 leadership year. Learn about the time commitments, workload, and—most importantly—the rewarding experiences that come with being part of these dynamic teams. Your next adventure in leadership starts here—don’t miss it!

Data from the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) indicates that 56% of higher education institutions will be updating their recreation facilities in the next five years. With over 950 campuses nationwide, that is a considerable number of spaces that will be updated to help students and staff better pursue their health and wellness goals.  

While some campuses will build new facilities, renovation can be a successful path forward for colleges and universities. This session will unite design leaders from CannonDesign to talk about the guiding principles that can make recreation renovation projects successful at all different scales. They will point to recent examples from Boston College, Virginia Tech, and other key institutions. 

Here are key learning outcomes attendees can anticipate:  

1. Learn how older recreation centers can be expanded or renovated to address space planning challenges, new program demands and sustainability goals.

2. Discover how creative design solutions can enhance outdated buildings and transform them into facilities ready to meet the modern moment.  

3. Understand more fully the key processes and decisions that can empower successful collegiate recreation renovation projects.

4. Be ready to make better strategic decisions for the future of their recreation facilities, students, and campus communities.  

Butler University has cultivated a comprehensive wellbeing initiative that demonstrates the power of collaboration, strategic alignment, and continuous improvement. Through BU|BeWell, Butler has developed a framework that supports students holistically by integrating research, best practices, and thought leadership in the field of wellbeing. This initiative is designed to not just meet the needs of the current student population but to offer scalable, sustainable solutions for institutions of all sizes. BU|BeWell shows how schools can strategically integrate efforts and ground them in research; the core of this approach lies not just in BU|BeWell but also in the Strategic Well-being Institutional Support System (SWISS)—an assessment tool developed to ensure every initiative aligns with real-time data insights and evolving student needs.

Learning Objectives:  

• Understand what it means to embed an approach, such as BU|BeWell, throughout every phase of the student experience.

• Describe how to use a data-driven approach for continuous improvement and remain responsive to student needs.

Continuing Education Credits:

Participants who complete this program will be eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credits in either the Core Student Affairs Educator Certification (CSAEd™) or Certified Student Affairs Educator-Campus Recreation (CSAEd-CR™).  

NIRSA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd™). NIRSA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program. 

Butler University's BU|BeWell: A Data-Informed, Collaborative Model for Student Wellbeing webinar qualifies for the amount and types of CE credit listed below: 

• CE Credit value: 1
• CE Credit Type: Core, Campus Recreation Specialty
• CE Credit Domain: Foundations of the Profession

How to get CE credits for attending this course:

1. Attend the live webinar or watch the webinar recording once published to this page
2. Upon completion, submit a program evaluation at this link
3. Within two weeks of completing the survey, you should receive a certificate of completion via email