Annual Highlights - IU Campus Recreational Sports

Imagining the Possibilities
Annual Highlights (continued)
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Hourly Staff Demographics
Representing over 800 part-time student employees
The Special Projects Director of the Student Recreational
Sports Association (SRSA) spent a lot of time
helping to move projects—including the Facility
Master Plan—forward during the past year. Alex
Sidebottom should know. This was his role during the
2007-2008 school year.
“Working towards this higher goal of trying to better
the IU Bloomington campus with these much needed
and important recreational facilities—this is where
much of my interest/inspiration [in Recreational
Sports] came from,” says Sidebottom, who now serves
as President of SRSA.
As President of SRSA, Sidebottom continues his efforts
to advance Campus Recreational Sports (RS). His
involvement has afforded him opportunities that
compliment and enhance what he gets from the classroom.
These include honing his public speaking skills
and learning how to work with diverse groups—some
with conflicting viewpoints—towards consensus.
including finalizing phasing details and developing
a business plan to share with key campus administrators,
and linking it with the new IU Bloomington
Campus Master Plan process.
Staff Recognition
Kathy Bayless was asked to serve on the IU Bloomington
Campus Master Plan Task Force and also
served as chairperson for the Subcomittee on
Health, Wellness, and Intercollegiate Athletics.
The National Intramural–Recreational Sports Association
(NIRSA) recently released a book titled
Campus Recreation: Essentials for the Professional.
Kathy Bayless, Director of IU Campus Recreational
Sports is a featured writer, authoring Chapter 3:
Title IX Legacy and Beyond.
Kathy Bayless chaired the NIRSA standards
committee that developed proposed standards for
collegiate recreational sports. They were approved
in Fall, 2007 by the Council for the Advancement of
Standards (CAS) in Higher Education.
By Gender:
2007 2008 IUB Fall 07
Female 43.85% 41.72% 52.21%
Male 50.07% 52.44% 47.78%
(blank)** 6.08% 5.84% 0.01%
Grand Total 100% 100% 100%
By Ethnicity:
2007 2008 IUB Fall 07
Amer. Indian 0.57% 0.24% 0.30%
Asian 4.24% 5.13% 6.26%
Black 8.77% 9.65% 4.54%
Hispanic 1.41% 2.26% 2.62%
Not App. (alien) 0.00% 0.72% 5.74%
White 78.93% 76.16% 78.74%
(blank)** 6.08% 5.84% 1.78%
Grand Total 100% 100% 98.98%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pac Islander 0.03%
By Class Standing:
2007 2008 IUB Fall 07
High School 0.28% 0.24% 3.86%
Associate 0.14% 0.00% 0.29%
Undergrad Special 0.14% 0.60% 1.84%
Freshman 17.26% 13.71% 19.50%
Sophomore 21.07% 20.62% 18.72%
Junior 17.68% 16.92% 15.72%
Senior 25.46% 27.06% 17.68%
Grad Special 0.28% 0.83% 2.54%
Masters 2.97% 4.77% 8.41%
Doctorate 2.26% 2.15% 8.73%
First Year 0.14% 0.00% 0.70%
Second Year 0.14% 0.00% 0.67%
(blank)** 12.16% 13.11% 0.02%
Grand Total 100% 100% 98.68%
Other 1.32%
During the past three years, the Student
Recreational Sports Association
(SRSA) has been hard at work with
Campus Recreational Sports on a Facility
Master Plan for the recreational
facilities at Indiana University (see
page 13 for more details).
In the 2007–2008 school year, SRSA
partnered with the Indiana University
Student Association (IUSA) on a
student-focused version of the facility
master plan presentation to share with
other student organizations on campus.
These presentations were designed
to gain support and feedback from a
cross-section of students on campus.
Alex Sidebottom
Thirteen major student organizations
have currently signed a letter of
endorsement stating they support the
facility master plan and use of student
fee funding in principle. These endorsements
confirm what the campus-wide
surveys, focus groups and advisory
committees have already demonstrated:
this is a priority to students!
SRSA and IUSA also began a marketing
campaign to further educate the
student body about the preliminary results
of the facility master plan. Copies
of the advertisements and posters from
the nine-week campaign, along with
graphics showing SRSA’s ideas can be
found at recsports.indiana.edu/srsa.
“Without a doubt, my involvement in SRSA has given
me an immense amount of experience and knowledge
that I could not get in the classroom, especially
leading and motivating peers and gaining comfort
and confidence in working effectively with higher
level decision-makers. In and outside the classroom,
I feel more confident and articulate in expressing my
views,” says Sidebottom. Most, if not all, of my work
with SRSA is going to help me in the dealings of the
real world.”
Leadership opportunities aside, the economics major
says that he truly enjoys working out every day at the
Student Recreational Sports Center or the School of
Health, Physical Education and Recreation building.
He especially enjoys interacting with fellow students
and Recreational Sports staff alike.
“[There is a] close-knit family-like feeling that everyone
at RS has,” says Sidebottom. “[The family-like
feel] makes perfect sense—all the activities offered
give participants such a great experience.”
RS Marketing received a First Place Creative Excellence
Award from NIRSA in the Audiovisual Promotion
category for its Rec Sports Report podcast
program. RS also received a Third Place Creative
Excellence Award for its annual Faculty/Staff IU
Active Lifestyle Calendar.
Publications
Forrester, S., Ross, C.C., Hall, S.L., and Geary,
C. (2007). Using past campus recreational sports
participation to explain current physical activity
levels of alumni. Recreational Sports Journal, 29
(1), 9–21.
Hall, S.L., Forrester, S. & Borsz, M. (2008). A
constructivist case study examining the leadership
development of undergraduate students in campus
recreational sports. Journal of College Student
Development, 29 (2), 125–140.
Unique Student Visitors *
By Ethnicity
2008 IUB 2008 Variance
Amer. Indian 0.24% 0.28% -0.05%
Asian 6.98% 6.06% 0.92%
Black 4.37% 4.48% -0.11%
Hispanic 2.71% 2.65% 0.06%
Native Hawaiian 0.06% 0.06% 0.00%
Not App. (alien) 8.02% 6.95% 1.07%
White 76.47% 78.72% -2.25%
(blank)*** 1.15% 0.80% 0.35%
Grand Total 100% 100%
By Class Standing
2008 IUB 2008 Variance
Undergrad Special 1.06% 4.18% -3.12%
Freshman 26.56% 18.31% 8.25%
Sophomore 22.50% 20.77% 1.73%
Junior 16.68% 18.86% -2.18%
Senior 18.72% 20.43% -1.71%
Masters 6.94% 7.32% -0.38%
Doctorate 6.46% 8.55% -2.09%
Grad Other 0.55% 1.57% -1.02%
(blank)*** 0.53% 0.01% 0.52%
Grand Total 100% 100%
*Figures represent students who have been scanned by card readers at the HPER or SRSC facilities.
The areas that thousands of students utilize which are not reflected in this data due to lack
of card scanning capabilities include HPER - 163, 169, 171, 293, the racquetball courts, tennis
courts, Woodlawn field and track; Recreational Sports Field Complex at North Fee Lane; Evan
Williams Club Field and any auxiliary spaces utilized by Club Sports.
**Gender & Ethnicity blank: Person has not been a student for the past 3 years.
***Class standing & Program of Study blank: Person was not enrolled at the time of employment.
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