Senior Leaders Ideas in Motion - New to Higher Education? We got you covered!
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Join NIRSA Executive Director Pam Watts for this live event roundtable for senior leaders. This series is designed for Campus Recreation Directors (and equivalents) to explore current challenges and opportunities from a strategic lens. Each session, offered quarterly, will focus on a specific topic, and other facilitators and presenters will be invited to join.
Campus recreation departments have diversified where they recruit talent, and in turn now need to diversify their onboarding and training programs for new staff to meet the needs of a wider range of professional backgrounds. If you’ve never worked in higher ed before, it can be a bit of a strange environment where cultures, systems, and processes are very different that work settings off campus.
In the December session, a panel of professionals who are new to higher education will share what they found challenging or unfamiliar about working in a college setting. These professionals will share where guidance and onboarding can accelerate their effectiveness in working within a campus system and culture. For all of us who have been working in higher education for a while, we’ve likely forgotten what is unique and unusual about our setting.
Pam Watts
Executive Director
NIRSA
Pam Watts is the Executive Director for NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, which comprises over 3,250 members on nearly 900 campuses throughout the United States and Canada. A former CPA, Pam joined NIRSA in 2000 and in her tenure with the Association she served primarily as NIRSA's second-in-command until assuming the Executive Directorship in early 2012. She works closely with the NIRSA, NIRSA Foundation, and NIRSA Services Corporation Boards of Directors to actuate the aligned strategic plan of all three entities in service to members.
Pam is a Certified Association Executive and in her role as NIRSA’s Executive Director she served as the Chair of the Council for Higher Education Management Association’s Steering Committee; as a member of the American Council on Exercise’s Industry Advisory Panel; and on the Advisory Council for the Healthy Campus Initiative in the University of California System. She currently serves as President of the Physical Activity Alliance, on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Wellbeing at Butler University and is Vice-President of the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification Board of Directors.
Carson Hogg
Member Services Team
University of Cincinnati
Nicole Ortega
Asst. Director, Member Services
MIT
Jefferey Callahan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ashley Champigny
Director, People & Culture
Duke University
Nicole Imblun
Member Services Team
University of Cincinnati
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