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Since 1997
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Kent is the chief staff officer of the Association, and manages the NIRSA National Center (NNC) team, NNC operations, the Association's finances, and serves the NIRSA board of directors, as well as the boards of the NIRSA Foundation and the NIRSA Services Corporation. Kent has a long history in the profession that began in 1976 as the coordinator of summer recreation programs for the University of Maryland (College Park). He received a B.A. degree in Sociology (1974), a M.A. degree in Therapeutic Recreation (1979), and a Ph.D. in Recreation and Parks Administration (1990), from different
colleges at the University of Maryland (College Park). His career includes an impressive tenure at the National Recreation and Park Association, before joining NIRSA in August 1997.
He spends most of his free time (what little there is, his wife Becky might suggest) with his wonderful family: wife Becky, daughter Shana, and Yellow Labrador Retriever 'Nugget.' During the beautiful Oregon summers, the family often takes the camper-trailer into Central Oregon for weekends of camping and fishing. The NNC team has yet to hear that he's actually caught any fish, but his camping experiences have included a run-in with a wild boar, and accidentally setting up camp in a flash flood zone, that ultimately flash flooded. Kent is an avid exerciser-presumably to survive the camping
seasons-and uses the NNC exercise facility or a local gym almost daily.
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