Most colleges and universities have guidelines for the amount of square footage per student they should provide for indoor recreation or health training. As enrollment increases and indoor space becomes less abundant, campus recreation departments utilize outdoor areas to provide health education and fitness training. As we continue to navigate a post-pandemic world and the demand for outdoor fitness spaces continues to rise, it’s important for colleges and universities to stay ahead of this trend. Join Florida Gulf Coast University’s Suzanne Ries and Lisa Caldwell and PLAE's Brittany Barrett as they discuss the importance of outdoor spaces in the campus recreation space, the impact these spaces can have on campus life, and how to bring outdoor fitness to your school.

This presentation helps attendees to boldly reshape student health and wellness on their campuses.

A recorded discussion about hot topics in small programs. This discussion focuses collaborating with your athletic department when sharing space and resources.

New to facility project management? There are few playbooks or training programs out there that help recreation facility managers learn the basics and operational nuances of small and large project management. Join other facility management colleagues in learning or refreshing yourself on the basics of project management in a higher education setting. Session will include framework and basic operational level information as well as interaction opportunities with peers.

As we seek to count our participants, set informed goals, and quantify our value, how does campus recreation count and define participants? At what level of participation do academic benefits occur? Finally, what participant groupings are both practically useful and statistically significant? This session is geared toward those who seek to count or study participants. Presenters will demonstrate the impact of various user and will use group definitions through examining the relationship between campus recreation participation and student persistence from their first year to their second, as well as first year cumulative GPA. Presenters will also offer recommendations for how to define and group participants.

As you welcome back exercisers, learn helpful ways to get your facility and your equipment ready to use. Areas of focus will include: preparing the facility, revising layout of equipment, preparing your equipment for use, implementing new guidelines, gearing up staff, reconnecting with exercisers, and embracing digital change.

Attendees will learn about easy to deploy smart technologies that reduce manual burden, provide tools to make data driven decisions, and help re-engage students.

Collegiate recreation facilities are intended for decades of use. Some of the most important parts of a building or field design is the location and climatic impacts. With evidence of—and growing concern about—climate change, how do you design for an uncertain future? And what are measures that you can take to preserve our current climate?

Reopening Considerations: A Framework for Campus Rec