Here's what they're saying about the 2011 National Recreation Facilities Institute:
"I am the Recreational Sports Director at the University of Pittsburgh and am developing a new 10 year master plan of facilities for Pitt. This institute on facilities was most helpful in realizing what, when and how other Universities are progressing with their student retention."
- Marilyn Ross, University of Pittsburgh
"Very relevant topics, engaging instructors, and great facility tours."
- Rex Bennett, Tennessee Tech University
"NRFI helped me formulate new ideas to bring back to my campus; to better promote our new campus recreation department."
- Eva Flying, Little Big Horn College
"The NIRSA Facilities conference is a great place to meet with other facility people and discuss how to make everyone’s facility better."
- Chris Cody, University of Texas at Dallas
For a full recap, check out the November issue of the NIRSA KNOW.
Recreational sports programs are a tremendous growth industry nationwide and provide a great marketable asset to colleges and universities. And a booming recreational facilities construction trend has not faltered, even in the face of a slow economy.
In the past 20 years, the cost to build a multimillion dollar recreational complex has gone from $2 million to $49 million.* Over the next five years, an estimated 82 colleges and universities are currently involved in 129 facility construction, expansion, and/or renovation projects; over $1.7 billion dollars in NIRSA-Member capital projects are currently underway.˜
The building boom for recreational sports facilities continues to increase demand for knowledgeable and qualified facility managers and directors. The NIRSA National Recreation Facilities Institute (NRFI), Presented by Mondo, provides in-depth information on planning, constructing, renovating, and operating recreational sports facilities.
NRFI attendees may move freely between educational sessions focused on design/construction or management operations. In addition to the informative educational sessions, facilities tours are included for some of the area's top recreational facilities The on-campus tours have been specially designed to complement the educational sessions, the interactive opening session, and the networking opportunities with recreational sports managers/directors and architects from across the nation.
2011 NIRSA NRFI Program Committee
- Robert Golson, Chair, James Madison University
- Melissa Kish, University of Alabama
- Daniel Lawrence, University of Northern Colorado
- Amy Swingle, Florida Gulf Coast University
If you have questions about the NIRSA National Recreation Facilities Institute, please contact the NIRSA Assistant Director for Education Programs.
* Source: Kerr & Downs Research Report - Buying Power of Participants of Recreational Sports on College Campuses (2002) Building Your Future
˜ Source: The NIRSA Collegiate Recreational Sports Facilities Construction Report 2010-2015 (2010)
